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Friday, September 25, 2009

You Tell 'Em, Ed

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This is Ed Schultz of MSNBC doing his best impression of a calm, reasoned, fair-minded assessment of the critics of the President's heal...

See No Evil (On the Left)

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Nancy Pelosi called them Swastika-sporting Nazis. Other Democrats accused them of being a racist mob. Harry Reid labeled them "evil-mon...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Another Puzzle

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The other day we talked about a couple of evolutionary puzzles - insect metamorphosis and the waggle dance of bees. Robert Deyes at Uncommo...

Huffing and Puffing

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Michael Egnor at Evolution News and Notes writes that: "The ID-Darwinism debate is rapidly eroding materialist credibility, not onl...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Reacting to Race

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Evan Coyne Maloney at Big Government.com offers us a heuristic for understanding everything from why criticism of President Obama is seen a...

Refusing to Face the Emptiness

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In a book review at First Things Edward Oakes makes the following observation about atheism: In Untimely Meditations , Fried�rich Nietzs...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

William P. Alston (1921-2009)

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Bill Alston died last week. That probably means very little to most readers, but if you're among those who have done some reading in the...

Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Victims

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In a stunning development scientists have been able to restore near-normal mobility to rats whose spinal cords have been severed from their...

Tolstoy Or Dostoyevsky

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Lovers of Russian literature will enjoy the essay by David Hart at First Things in which he compares the genius of Dostoyevsky to the geni...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Waggle Dance

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Insects are amazing creatures. One of the most mind-rocking discoveries about them was made by Karl von Fritsch back in the 1940s when he wo...

Hey, Let's Defend Iran Against Israel

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Gerald Posner interviews former Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski for The Daily Beast and gets a real scoop. In the cou...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Market Trends

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For those of you interested in business and the stock market, David Callaway at Marketwatch.com has good news and bad news. Here's a syn...

Why The Arabs Languish

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The folks at Strategy Page analyze Islamic terrorism and why Arab civilizations have stagnated while the rest of the world passes them by: ...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Nowhere to Hide

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Strategy Page features an interesting report on the silent war against Islamic terrorists around the globe: Navy SEALS reportedly launche...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

This Is Very Sad

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I want very much to like and respect former President Jimmy Carter, but it seems that every time he opens his mouth he says something irresp...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Why People Don't Believe Him

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Newsweek columnist George Will explains why President Obama seems to be the victim of a strange kind of inverse relationship. The more he ...

Norman Borlaug - Hero

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Contrary to the faux heroes offered up by our celebrity culture most real heroes are people we've never heard of. Such, perhaps, was No...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Is America Breaking Up?

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Pat Buchanan wonders, with good reason, I think, if America is breaking up. Here's the heart of his essay : [T]he episode [the Preside...

Re: The 9/12 Photo

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Several readers have written to inform me that the photo I used to accompany my post titled 9/12 Tea Party was actually taken at a differen...

No-Brainer

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Last year Congress and President Bush agreed to suspend the ban on oil drilling on the continental shelf. Things were set to resume tapping ...