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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Calvin and Hobbes

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Count me among those who were crushed : In today's cult of celebrity, it's a rare phenomenon: an artist who produces much-loved wo...

How the Climate Change Movement Died

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Margaret Wente at The Globe and Mail looks at the state of the global climate change "movement" and finds it on life support if ...

The Green Police

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I don't know if the folks at Audi were intending this to be a parody of the brave new world to which modern progressivism is taking us, ...

John Murtha, RIP

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Congressman John Murtha is dead at the age of 77. For those who don't know who Murtha was or why his passing is worth noting please read...
Monday, February 8, 2010

No More Soup

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Generations of biology students have been taught that life originated in a primordial soup of simple organic molecules that gradually combin...

Rescinding Don't Ask

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The Wall Street Journal features a column by Mackubin Thomas Owens in which he makes a case against rescinding the ban on open homosexuals...

Two Assumptions

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Democrats, the WaPo's Charles Krauthammer observes , analyze their dismal performance in recent elections in the light of two guiding ax...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Is Religion Separable from Science?

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It's a matter of entrenched conviction, I suppose, that religion has no place in science, but I wonder how it can be possible that the t...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Eternal Recurrence

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I remember as a boy growing up in the post-WWII years that it just seemed unthinkable and impossible that the same hatreds that led to the H...

Zinn Again

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The other day we linked to two remembrances of the late historian Howard Zinn. One was a paen to the man's benevolent influence and the...

Whackos

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The lefty blogosphere and its media arm at MSNBC were all aflutter this past week over the results of a Daily Kos poll of Republicans that ...
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...