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Monday, November 21, 2011

The Thrill Is Gone

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Remenber as you watch this that Chris Matthews is the man so smitten by Barack Obama that he confessed before the last presidential election...

Utopian Dreamers

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When I first read this piece I thought the writer, a woman named Kate Pickett, was composing an amusing parody of the British Left, but as ...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Current Counter-Reformation

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Those who have been following the intelligent design/ Darwinian evolution debate for a long time will appreciate Tom Bethell's retrospec...

Climate-Change Game-Changer

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Matt Ridley is a highly celebrated science writer who recently (October 31) gave a speech at the Royal Academy of Arts in Edinburgh Scotlan...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Most Ethical Administration Ever

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We can add yet another of President Obama's cabinet appointees to the list of those associated with possible scandal. First it was Treas...

A Movie Running Backwards

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There is a universally accepted principle of thought which says that given a choice between multiple explanations for a phenomenon the prefe...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Mind v. Matter

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Raymond Tallis reviews a couple of books on mind and materialism for the Wall Street Journal . One of the books is titled Incomplete Nature:...

Where's the Honor in This?

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A young man, his father and his mother are charged in Ontario with having murdered the young man's three sisters and the man's firs...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

He Wouldn't Do That, Would He?

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Victor Davis Hanson believes that an attack on Iran is far more likely in an Obama administration than it would have been under President B...

Stiffing the Pipeline, Squandering Jobs

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There are good reasons, perhaps, for delaying the decision to construct the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring oil from Alberta to Texas,...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Lines in the Sand

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Satellites orbiting the earth have recently discovered some interesting markings in the Chinese desert. New Scientist makes a convincing ca...

Your GPS

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Ever wonder how your GPS works? Here's a one minute animation that explains the basics compliments of New Scientist :
Monday, November 14, 2011

The Global Warming Debate

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This pretty much covers all the talking points. It's amusing. Well, some won't find it amusing, but others will. It depends upon wh...

Ten Best Bio Pics

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This is a magnified cluster of stink bug eggs the photograph of which placed in the top ten biological photographs of 2011: I'm sure ...

Who Says They Had a Moral Obligation?

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One of the interesting aspects of the Penn State case, at least for me, is the way in which people are tossing around the term "moral o...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

The Omen

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A lot of attention was been showered on the success of Issue 2 in Ohio which was a repudiation of the efforts of the Republican governor, Jo...

One More Word

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The Penn State scandal continues to receive attention from both the media and readers of Viewpoint. One theme that keeps popping up among th...
Friday, November 11, 2011

More on the PSU Scandal

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A couple of friends have written to ask me to clarify remarks I made in yesterday's post on the Penn State scandal. Specifically, there ...

He Said, She Said

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You won't hear this from most major media sources, and I confess I don't know how much weight to place on it, but a lawyer in Atlant...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Penn State Scandal

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I'm reluctant to write about the Penn State mess because not everything is known yet about why people didn't go to the police with t...