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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Obamanomics

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Ed Morrisey at Hot Air claims that the economic policies of the current administration have been a complete and miserable failure, a claim ...

Another Administration Scandal

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ABC reports the story of what happened in Benghazi the night that our ambassador and three other Americans were murdered. There are two ve...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

More Praise for In the Absence of God

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My brother Bill just finished reading In the Absence of God and writes this: Congratulations on a great story. I realized I was in for a C...

What Is Reality?

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New Scientist has a short article (available for another day without subscription) by British philosopher Jan Westerhoff on the nature of ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Tough Ad

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If a picture is worth a thousand words how much are 30 seconds of picture worth?
Monday, October 8, 2012

Did You Know?

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Here are a few facts about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) gleaned from a Wall Street Journal article written by Heather Higgins and Ha...

Child Abuse

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Good teachers across the country are deeply concerned that their standing in the public's esteem has been declining for several decades....
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Why Is Anyone Surprised?

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I was mildly amused by the reaction of liberal pundits to the carnage Mitt Romney inflicted during Wednesday night's presidential debate...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Get to the Bottom of Benghazi

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The editors of National Review are calling on the president to deliver on his promise in 2008 to run a transparent administration and come...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

What Is Knowledge?

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Philosopher Paul Pardi gives an easy-to-understand overview of some of the problems of epistemology in an essay at Philosophy News. He beg...

Extreme Deep Field

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The pic below was featured at the Hubble Space Telescope website . Here's what the Hubble folks said about it: Like photographers assemb...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Slaughtering Teens with America's Help

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Imagine the outrage were it learned that a Republican president's policies both violated the law and facilitated the massacre of fourtee...

Human Origins and OOL

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A recent Gallup survey found that almost 80% of Americans believe that God was involved somehow in the origin of human beings: Forty-six pe...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Whatever Works

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There is a view among ethicists known as Pragmatism which holds, roughly speaking, that whatever works is right. Many politicians, unless th...

Why the President May be in Electoral Trouble

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Although recent polls have been showing Mr. Obama maintaining a substantial lead over Mr. Romney in the race for the White House there are s...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Obama Phones

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One time-honored way to win elections, I guess, is to bribe people by just giving them stuff. They'll apparently love you for it. It cer...

The Key to Happiness

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Robert Emmons, writing at Big Questions , discerns the key to Happiness in the Queen of the Virtues - Gratitude. In modern times gratitude h...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

What's the Most Likely Explanation?

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Here's a five minute video showing just a few of the basic details of how a bacterial flagellum works and how it is constructed. Keep in...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Is Romney Really Ahead?

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Political strategist Dick Morris explains why Romney is actually in a better position than Obama despite what both the pundits and the poll...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

David Brooks' Conservatism

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David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times who considers himself a conservative. Perhaps relative to his colleagues at the Times he ...