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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Five Facts about Guns and Violence

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In response to calls - some bordering on the hysterical - for more gun control, even to the extent of confiscation, we offer a few facts fro...

Got the Flu?

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Perhaps you did your due diligence and got a flu shot this year but nevertheless came down with the bug anyway and are wondering why. An ar...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

What's a Liberal to Think?

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Like the islanders in King Kong, every now and then liberals feel the need to sacrifice someone to appease the gods of racial "justice....
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Finding Out What's in It

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An article in the New York Times should give pause to anyone who bought the sales pitch for Obamacare that it was going to "bend the c...
Monday, January 7, 2013

How Much Risk Is Too Much?

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The New York Times reports that an analysis done by the state of New York has shown that drilling for natural gas using hydrofracking poses...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Fruitflow Now Available in U.S.

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Way back on December 23rd of '09 I did a post on a product called Fruitflow. Here's what I wrote about it: Millions of people rely o...

Reason and Irrationality

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Andrew Seddon has an essay at the New Oxford Review in which he talks about the beliefs of Christians and atheists and makes the claim that...
Friday, January 4, 2013

Movies in 2012

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I didn't get to many movies this year, but of the ones I saw I think the following were the most noteworthy. Opinions will vary on such ...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

How to Win the War on Poverty

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Peter Cove is a disillusioned foot soldier in the war on poverty. In a column at City Journal he tells how he came to believe that that war...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Books of 2012

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At the start of each year I like to pause and reflect on the books I've read and the movies I've seen during the preceding twelve-mo...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Beyond Three Dimensions

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Could it be that the three dimensional world in which we live is not all there is to reality? Is it possible that there are other dimensions...

2012: The Best of All Possible Years

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Reading this editorial in The Spectator will fill you with Christmas cheer - unless you're an inveterate pessimist or a secular leftist...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Guns, Israel, and Chicago

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Rabbi Moshe Averick shares several interesting thoughts apropos the current controversy over gun availability and draws some pertinent con...

Punish the Rich

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Jamelle Bouie at The Washington Post explains why Democrats are adamant that we raise taxes on the rich. It's not because of the revenu...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Singer's Utilitarian Ethics

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Peter Wicks reviews in First Things a book by Charles C. Camosy titled Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization . Singer, you...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Christianophobia

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Silently, almost beneath notice in the West, Christianity is being extirpated in much of the world. An article on a report by Ruppert Short...

Collapse of the Pro-Choice Movement?

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Jon Shields, a professor of government at Claremont College, argues in First Things that Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision tha...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

What's Needed, What's Not

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Mark Twain once observed that there are thousands of people hacking at the branches of evil for every one cutting at the root. Perhaps our m...

Diverting Killer Rocks

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Astronomer Phil Plait gives a 14 minute TED Talk in which he describes the problem posed by asteroids whose orbits take them into a collisio...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

For Christmas

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