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Thursday, August 23, 2012

How the Liberal Justices May Cost Obama the Election

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Naomi Emery at The Washington Examiner makes a compelling case that John Roberts' decision to uphold Obamacare may cost the Democrats t...

Pernicious Influences

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After I posted the critique of Cynthia Tucker's rather silly column on Paul Ryan in which she tried to wed him to the worst aspects Ayn...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Just Make Stuff Up

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Cynthia Tucker is a syndicated columnist who was awarded a Pulitzer in 2007 for first-rate commentary. It's probably good that she won h...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Why the Pressure on Akin?

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Senatorial candidate Todd Akin is under pressure from Republicans to withdraw from the Missouri race against incumbent Democrat Claire McCas...

Hit the Road

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That Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson wrote a piece calling for the defeat of President Obama in November is not surprising. Fergus...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Sub-Optimal Design

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Barry Arrington at Uncommon Descent recaps an argument made by William Lane Craig in his debate with Darwinian biologist Francis Ayala. Aya...

The Blessings of Natural Gas

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We've commented on this before, but perhaps it bears repeating. Despite the fears of some environmentalists, natural gas has, on balance...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Fair and Balanced

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In some quarters of the media balanced reporting means that if you discuss some awful behavior perpetrated by one side you must also condemn...

Who'll Save Medicare?

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For those interested in pursuing the details of the Romney/Ryan plan for Medicare I recommend Yuval Levin's analysis in National Review...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Culture Makes a Difference

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My friend Byron passes along an article from The Clapham Institute's blog Peer Review which is worth sharing. I can find no links to t...

Is Mr. Obama Losing the Youth Vote?

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Lots can change between now and November but this seems significant: For the first time since he began running for president, Republican Mi...

What If He Was a Conservative?

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Imagine that Floyd Corkins, the man who walked into the offices of the pro-life, pro-traditional marriage Family Research Council and shot a...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Blind Faith

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When biologists talk about the cell being a microscopic factory filled with tiny molecular machines they mean that quite literally as this b...

Voter ID

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The Pennsylvania voter ID law was upheld yesterday, pending appeals, of course. I can't help but wonder why those on the left have oppo...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

What Is Racism?

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Steve Browne at Taki Magazine shares some thoughts on racism. Specifically, he wonders exactly what it is: It has to be evident to all thin...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Giving Sight to the Blind

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Most of us know someone who's losing his or her sight because of macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, or some other degenerative ...

Ryan's Plan

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The liberal talk shows are in something of a frenzy trying to find some way to convince viewers that if Mitt Romney isn't a satanic incu...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Living Forever

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George Dvorsky has an interesting piece at io9 in which he discusses whether living forever would be all that desirable. He writes: Some fu...

The Ryan Pick

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Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick, Rep. Paul Ryan, has garnered almost universal plaudits from the right and almost universal boos fr...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Killing the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs

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French president Hollande has apparently chosen to follow the thinking of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and raise the top tax rate in his c...