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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Irresponsibility

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This is beyond parody. Weary of the futility of pleading with Washington to do something to get a handle on the tidal wave of human poverty ...

Real Hate

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You may have heard that Lance Baxter, the voice of the Geico gecko was fired by Geico for placing a call to the tea-party group FreedomWork...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Eyjafjallajokull

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The Big Picture has a series of 35 photos taken of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull. Some of them, like the one below, are absolutel...

Golden State No Longer

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City Journal has a fine column by Steven Malanga which explains how California has been brought to the brink of economic collapse. The...

Obama's Boondoggle

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Grace-Marie Turner at National Review Online summarizes a startling report on Obamacare by HHS Chief Actuary Richard Foster and the progn...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Harsh Law?

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Is it immoral to enforce our immigration laws? Sojourners' Jim Wallis thinks so. In the sort of essay that gives liberalism a bad name ...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Why Isn't the Media Interested?

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David Klinghoffer wonders, with more than a little justification, why the major media is so uninterested in the David Coppedge story we wrot...

Selective Courage

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The bold, brash, intrepid souls at Comedy Central frequently, I'm told, exhibit their fearlessness for all to see by mocking Christianit...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Real Enemies

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Who does the president consider the real enemies of our nation to be? To answer that perhaps we should look at whom he directs his harshest ...

Small Minds, Closed Minds

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Why is it, if Darwinians are so confident that they have truth on their side, that they feel the need to censor, stifle, demote and fire any...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Piety Gene

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Michael Shermer surveys the ubiquity of religious belief around the world and concludes that it must all be a result of evolution: Of cou...

The Head of the Snake

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Apparently, after years of false reports of the deaths of these two thugs, it seems the good guys finally caught up with them. Here are s...

The Euthyphro Dilemma (Pt. II)

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Yesterday we took a look at the challenge posed by the Euthyphro dilemma to those who believe that God's existence is a necessary condit...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Euthyphro Dilemma (Pt. I)

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Many freshman philosophy students find themselves confronted with the Euthyphro dilemma, a question often posed to convince us that God'...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Racist Tea-Partiers

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If you read the New York Times or watch MSNBC you're probably quite convinced that the tea-party folks are total racists. Well, this vi...

Nerdiness

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Bradford passes along a link to one of the best, most insightful essays on middle and high school social hierarchies I've come across....

No Plan B

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This revelation in the New York Times should be a shocker, but it's not: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret t...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Rage Against the Machine

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Leftist terrorist groups are evidently experiencing a rebirth of sorts in Europe. Most of the terror organizations of the 1970s had died out...

Reclaiming the Culture

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In 1951 H. Richard Niebuhr wrote his classic Christ and Culture in which he argued that the faithful have throughout history adopted five d...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Everything

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I'm told this video has been around for a while, but a student just passed it on to me this week. It packs a lot of meaning into five mi...