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Friday, January 21, 2011

Who's Poisoning the Rhetoric?

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In the wake of the Tucson murders we've been subjected to a relentless barrage from the left-leaning media of accusations that conservat...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Academic Charade

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Hot Air tips us to a pretty depressing article in USA Today. At least it'll be depressing if you're shelling out $30,000 to $40,00...

Hundreds of Dead Babies

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Haven't we often been told over the years that we must keep abortion legal because if we don't women will be seriously harmed and ev...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Death of Moderation in Pakistan

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For those who may have missed the story let's recap: Asia Bibi is a Pakistani Christian which, apparently, in some parts of the Muslim ...

Moral Darwinism

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Tom Gilson reviews Benjamin Wiker's excellent book Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists and in the review makes this trenchant obs...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Crosshairs, Truthers and Birthers

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CNN reports that 56% of Democrats believe that Sarah Palin's crosshairs map was at least partly responsible for the Tucson shooting. Th...

Atheism and the Status of Newborns

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Atheist biologist P.Z.Myers is considered one of the top 25 most influential living atheists. Myers has recently stated that he does not reg...

Tinnitus

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Multitudes of Americans suffer from a condition called tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears, or, for some, an unrelenting hissing sound ...
Monday, January 17, 2011

More on King's Letter

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In an earlier post I encouraged readers to spend some time on this Martin Luther King day reading his Letter from a Birmingham Jail , writte...

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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For sheer rhetorical power Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech is hard to beat, but perhaps his best polemical effort was his L...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

American Witch

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Jared Loughner is an atheist, truther, and doper. He liked movies, philosophy, and English class. So what was the influence on him that pus...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Devil Incarnate

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The more the left tries to demonize Sarah Palin the more grotesque they make themselves look. The lefties at at Politico are all aflutter o...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Didn't Take Long

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The President himself hit all the right notes in his speech at Tucson last night, but apparently his call to refrain from using the tragedy...

What's Wrong with this Article?

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Princeton philosopher Peter Singer writes a compelling piece at The Philosopher's Magazine urging us all to do more to save suffering c...

Saving Our Cities

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During the 60s and 70s many of our cities devolved into cauldrons of crime, poverty, and terror. Heather MacDonald at City Journal argues, i...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Worst of the Year

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John Hawkins of Right Wing News presents his annual list of the 40 most obnoxious quotes of the year just ended. Actually "obnoxious...

Saving Leonardo

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Nancy Pearcy is a scholar and writer who has authored several books on science, culture and faith, and has recently come out with yet anothe...

Earth from Space

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Jason passes along a link to some spectacular  photos of earth taken from space. The eight pics appear in the Mail Online. Here's one...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Islam and Darwin

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David Klinghoffer shares some brief but interesting thoughts on a parallel between the current state of Islam and the current state of Darw...

Ahmadinejad Teetering

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DEBKAfile reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad may be fighting for his political life, and, given Iranian politics, maybe his...