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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Über-Bush

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For those who supported George W. Bush's treatment of foreign tyrants and terrorists it's hard to criticize President Obama's tr...

Premarital Sex and Monogamy

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Russ Douthat has a fine column on "premarital" sexual behavior at the New York Times . I put premarital in quotes because Doutha...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Interview with Paul Johnson

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Paul Johnson is one of the most prolific of our contemporary historians. He's written numerous books, big books on big themes. Modern Ti...

Thoughts on Libya

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There's growing criticism of the Obama administration, especially from conservatives, for not "doing something" in Libya, but ...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Snyder Family's Legal Costs

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The family of Matthew Snyder, which sued the Westboro Baptist church for protesting at Matthew's funeral, has run up legal costs of abo...

Tale of Two Cities

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Eric Allie illustrates the lopsided struggle that beleagured taxpayers in Madison, Wisconsin have had in trying to defend themselves from po...

Progressives

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Steve Hayward at No Left Turns draws some distinctions between the very earliest twentieth century liberal progressives and their modern na...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Hawking's Hidden Premise

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I have no doubt that Stephen Hawking is a brilliant man. He forgets more mathematics in one day than I could learn in my lifetime. But there...

Is George Bush a Modern Lawrence of Arabia?

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Charles Krauthammer makes the case at NRO that demands for freedom in North Africa and elsewhere in the Muslim world are largely the fruit ...
Friday, March 4, 2011

The Camel's Nose

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One of the major problems in philosophy, particularly for those of a materialist disposition, is what is called the "hard problem"...

Surprising Numbers

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George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center summarizes a recent report from the International Bulletin of Missionary Research whi...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Live Ammo in Madison

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Law enforcement authorities discovered dozens of rounds of live ammunition outside the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin this morning:...

Snyder v. Phelps

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Not being familiar with the relevant case law I'm loath to comment on the Supreme Court's ruling in Snyder v. Phelps . I certainly s...

Intervening in Libya

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Libyan rebels are calling for America to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and to attack from the air the camps of murderous African mercenar...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Admiring the Unadmirable

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Hot Air's Ed Morrissey informs us that Judicial Watch has finally been able to obtain from the FBI unredacted files on the late Senator...

One More Story

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I didn't want to do any more posts on this topic for a while, but when I read this I thought I should share it. So here's one last s...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The Gentleman from Wisconsin

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Jim Wallis of Sojourners has called for a more civil political discourse, but I haven't heard much from him on the topic recently. Perh...

Socialist Justice

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Among the groups seeking to exploit the protest demonstrations against Republican governor Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin is the Interna...

Only If Compared to the Nazis

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I've recently been rereading Bernard Lewis' What Went Wrong , a history of relations between Islam and the West. Lewis, now 94, is s...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Teachers and Farmers

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I've said several times in the last week that there was something unpleasant about watching teachers in Madison last week insisting that...