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Friday, February 5, 2010

Even-Handedness

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I suppose anyone can mispronounce a word, and I only allude to the President's gaffe at a speech at the Prayer Breakfast not to nit-pic...

Where Do We Stop, Sarah?

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I love Sarah Palin, but I'm afraid she's may be starting to sound like a politically correct speech nazi. I understand why she woul...

Dawkins' Non-Answer

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My friend Mike comments that he recently read a quote by physicist Stephen Barr in response to Darwinians like Richard Dawkins who think tha...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Saving the World, Saving a Presidency

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Daniel Pipes argues that there's one way President Obama can rescue a presidency that looks everyday more like the swirling funnel of w...

Health Care Snowbirds

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The Democrats are still determined to get health care reform passed by hook or by crook, and it's not hard to understand why. If they fa...

Religious Stockholm Syndrome

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There's a fascinating interview with atheist writer Christopher Hitchens at The Portland Monthly . Hitchens, you will recall is the au...

More on Stem Cell Research

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A few weeks ago we posted a report on some amazing breakthroughs in stem cell research. Reader Kyle responds to that post with a link to an...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Haiti Update

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My friend Andy is a missionary in Haiti and has been sending us regular updates since the earthquake. Here's his latest: Haiti is a st...

The Will to Disbelieve

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The recent passing of far-left historian Howard Zinn reminded me, in a circuitous sort of way, of a piece Mary Eberstadt wrote a year ago f...

Honoring Mother Teresa

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Comes word that some atheists are in a snit because the U.S. Postal Service is going to put Mother Teresa on a stamp: An atheist organiza...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Clarification

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Jason writes to urge readers who may have visited the links to the remembrances of Howard Zinn to be sure to check the Update at David Horo...

Laughing at Olby

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Jon Stewart wearies of the relentless name-calling by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and does a masterful parody of Olby in this skit. This...

Time to Go

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You've no doubt heard that President Obama has decided that trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York City was a political albatross he ...

Ooh, Boy

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As if the proponents of AGW (anthropogenic global warming) hadn't suffered enough damage to their credibility of late, now comes word of...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Talking About Justice

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A former student, Anthony, links us to an interesting promo for a class on ethical issues related to the doing of justice. The class is bein...

Howard Zinn (RIP)

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Howard Zinn died last week at age 87. Most readers have probably never heard of Mr. Zinn, but he was a man of some consequence in the ideolo...

Mischaracterizing ID

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In the course of a review in First Things (subscription only) of Richard Dawkins' latest book theologian David B. Hart tarnishes an oth...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

This We Know Is True

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Cornelius Hunter notes at his blog that whatever the 21st century theory of the origin of life turns out to be it will still be called ...

Welcome to Haiti

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Scott Lewis, the head of a U.S. disaster relief organization, undertook last week to deliver a convoy of rice and beans to hungry Haitians u...
Friday, January 29, 2010

The Collapse of Venezuelan Socialism

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The WaPo's Jackson Diehl analyzes the collapse of Hugo Chavez's socialist dream for Venezuela: While the world has been preoccupi...