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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Animal Consciousness

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Discovery Magazine tells us that a group of scientists have issued a declaration announcing that animals possess consciousness: An internat...

It Could've Been Worse

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The Daily Show has put together a couple of political ads, one for each candidate, which are pretty creative. The first, a satire on Mitt Ro...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Junk DNA

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An article in New Scientist (subscription required) describes what researchers are discovering about the human genome and how it works. It...

Why He's Still Ahead

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John Hinderaker at Powerline wonders why it is, given the state of the economy and the failure of the President to articulate any plan for ...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Obamacare in One Sentence

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Dr. Barbara Bellar is a physician running for the Illinois State Senate. At a recent event she summed up Obamacare in one single, very long,...

The Fundamental Nature of Reality

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At Big Questions Online Andrew Briggs ponders the ultimate nature of reality and wonders whether, at bottom, everything is information. It...

The Benediction

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One of the most incongruous events of the recent Democratic convention was the closing prayer offered by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Dolan's...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

Pastor Freed from Iranian Death Row

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Long time readers of Viewpoint may recall our posts a year ago on Yousef Nadarkhani a Christian pastor, condemned to death in Iran for apos...

Noonan on the DNC

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Peggy Noonan's take on the Democratic National Convention is insightful and interesting. She seems sad that the party has devolved into...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Compromise and the Ratchet Effect

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Politics is all about compromising, we're often told, and when one side refuses to cooperate there's gridlock and nothing gets done....
Thursday, September 6, 2012

God and the Democrats

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The Democrat delegates to their convention had earlier this week quietly removed language from their party platform that recognized Jerusale...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The Vacuity of Evolutionary Ethics

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The recent edition of the journal Science (subscription required) has a review by Rudolph Griss of a new book by atheistic biologist E.O. W...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Diet, Dementia, and Insulin

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New Scientist has a fascinating article on recent research showing that Alzheimer's disease is connected to insulin which is connected ...

Extremists

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Whenever someone in politics calls someone else "extreme" or "extremist" it's safe to assume that all they mean is t...
Monday, September 3, 2012

The Faith of a Darwinian

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Once upon a time a boy went for a walk with his uncle along a country road. As they walked along the boy happened to notice that atop a thir...

Out of Touch Republicans

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There's one criticism that Democrats often make of Republicans that I think is inarguably accurate. Democrats accuse Republican politici...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

President or King?

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Over the last four years it has not been uncommon to hear people ask why it is that President Obama is not more popular. After all, he's...
Friday, August 31, 2012

For Political Wonks

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The liberal side of the media spectrum has been trying hard to tarnish Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican National Convention the othe...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

When a Calorie Is Not a Calorie

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So you're on a diet and counting calories and wondering why you're still not losing (or gaining) weight? The reason may be that the ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Does "Truth" Exist?

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We find ourselves living in an age in which a lot of people have come to believe that the very notion of a truth that is true for everyone, ...