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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Great News

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This article pretty much speaks for itself. Let's hope that either what it tells us is not true or that Republicans gain the necessary ...

Science and Blind Faith

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In the course of a post on how scientists say some pretty peculiar things, Rabbi Moshe Averick quotes world reknown chemist Dr. George Whit...

Extremist Party

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Stephen Hayward of The Weekly Standard writes a fine piece on the oft-heard charge that the GOP is now in the hands of extremist Tea Party ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Complexity and Simplicity

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A thread at Uncommon Descent addresses an argument that Richard Dawkins raises in his book The God Delusion viz. that if a cause must be ...

Is Science Becoming Less Ethical

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The folks at Science Now raise the question, in light of a series of scandals involving the fudging and fabrication of data in scientific r...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Tale of Two Scientists

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The cover story in the current issue of Christianity Today is a fascinating description of the journey of two Christian biologists and how ...

Roberts' Incoherence

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Byron York at the Washington Examiner explains in simple terms why Chief Justice Roberts' Obamacare decision last week is so difficult ...
Saturday, July 7, 2012

Evolving from Liberalism

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Emily Smith at the Washington Times profiles psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt and his evolution from liberalism to conservatism. She ...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Till We Have Faces

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The title of this post is an allusion to a book by C.S. Lewis whose title popped into my head as I watched this video at New Scientist . It...

Panama Trip

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I just returned from a week in Panama viewing birdlife and other natural beauties of the country with a couple of friends. We stayed for sev...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Investing in the Future

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Here's a story that'll give you a deeper appreciation of the extent to which your government is looking out for you and your tax dol...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Truthiness

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I confess I experienced a twinge of regret at never having read Barack Obama's celebrated memoir Dreams of My Father . I thought that ha...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Likely Reprisal Scenarios

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In an article in National Review foreign policy expert Daniel Pipes discusses the work of a pair of analysts named Michael Eisenstadt and M...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

The President's Biggest Success

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Mr. Obama has squandered billions trying to stimulate jobs in green energy industries and elsewhere, all to little effect. But there's o...
Friday, June 29, 2012

The Implausibility of Unguided Human Evolution

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Evolution News and Views takes a look at a new book by biologists Ann Gauger, Douglas Axe and lawyer Casey Luskin titled Science and Human ...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Either/Or

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The Supreme Court ruling this morning on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) upheld the law, including the mandate compelling all Americans to buy...

How Overturning ACA Could Help Obama

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Most commentators are assuming that if the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is struck down by the Supreme Court today it'd be a severe bl...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Who Is Karl Rove?

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Demonstrators in D.C., evidently paid by someone to participate, recently marched to express their displeasure at Karl Rove because Rove is ...

What Happens Next?

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The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote tomorrow on whether or not to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. I...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Ex Nihilo

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An article at Space.com promotes the exceedingly odd idea that the universe popped into existence from nothing. All the matter and energy w...