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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Ledge

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My friend Matt calls our attention to a film titled The Ledge just released last weekend. The movie explicitly endorses atheism and is an a...

Double Standards

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For those who savor irony: Israel has been roundly condemned by the world community for building a wall to keep Palestinian terrorists from ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Where No Man Has Gone Before

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Take a trip to the outermost reaches of our universe and back again all in about six minutes: The Centrality Of Earth In The Universe - Cosm...

"Trust Me"

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Our president certainly seems intent upon burnishing his reputation as a flim-flam man. As Stephen Hayes notes at The Weekly Standard , two...

Book-Banners

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Via Hot Air : The website Rebel Pundit conducted an experiment at a Chicago literature festival asking people which of a group of books they...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Spinning in Her Grave

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Edward Little is an Episcopalian bishop who owes a lot, he explains, to Ayn Rand. It's because of Rand that Little became a Christian. T...

Questioning Patriotism

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Timothy Dalrymple at Patheos responds to those who demand that one not question their patriotism with the reply that he's darn well go...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

About Schmidt

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One of the ironies of our entertainment culture is that Hollywood keeps turning out movies which powerfully illustrate the utter absurdity, ...

Rescuing Financially Imperiled Schools

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Remember how teachers were saying last spring that the Wisconsin legislators and Governor Scott Walker were going to devastate kids' edu...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Winter's Coming

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There's been some news coverage, squeezed, where possible, into the interstices of reportage of the Casey Anthony trial, of the negotiat...

The Ends Justify the Means

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When you're saddled with inferior ideas which, if explained clearly and honestly to people, no one would want to have anything to do wit...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Luxury Items Create Real Jobs

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President Obama continues to display an astonishing lack of understanding about how the rich create jobs for ordinary Americans by purchasin...

The Failure of Liberalism

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In one short essay at National Review Online Victor Davis Hanson summarizes the complete failure of liberalism both here and abroad. After ...

Disgrace to the Profession

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Young teachers having little luck finding a job might consider moving to Atlanta where there's soon likely to be a hundred or more openi...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Feeding Racism

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America has done much, perhaps more than any nation in history, to try to expunge racism from our public life, but all those efforts are ero...

What the World Needs Now Is More Oxytocin

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Patricia Churchland is a philosopher who has written extensively on the philosophy of mind, consciousness, and the insights neuroscience bri...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Zombies

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Bob Hope gets in a zinger in this old clip I came across at No Left Turns : Pretty funny.

Hot and Cold

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Proponents of the hypothesis that the earth is getting warmer have been insisting that the warming is occuring because we're polluting t...

Is it Ever Right to Lie?

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Note: I just returned from a week in Guatemala and found that in a couple of the posts I had prepared to have my brother Bill post for me w...
Monday, July 4, 2011

All Men Are Created Equal

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As I write this my neighborhood is awash in the sights and sounds of fireworks as Americans here and across the nation celebrate the anniver...