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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Naturalism's Hard Choices

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William J. Murray at Uncommon Descent asks some impertinent questions about the implications of Darwinian materialism. Darwinian materialis...

Leadership Vacuum

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A book by two former special operations guys, Brandon Webb and Jack Murphy, sheds new light on the resignation of David Petraeus at CIA and...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Science Literacy

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Just when you think that poking a little fun at the media for their ideological prejudices is so easy it's hardly fun anymore someone wi...

Do Animals Suffer?

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VJ Torley alternately chides philosopher William Lane Craig for claiming in a debate that animals don't suffer as humans do and then cr...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Sounds of Silence

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From the media coverage of the ex-LA cop Christopher Dorner who has gone on a killing rampage to avenge his firing from the police departmen...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Speaking Truth to Power

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At yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast world renown pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson did what few people have been able to d...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Abolishing the Constitution

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The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says in part: "No person .... shall be deprived of life, liberty, or prop...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Nagel's Critics

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I've written several times in the last month or so about philosopher Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Ne...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Cats

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I'm probably going to stir up controversy, and maybe even hostility, with what I say at the conclusion of this post, but it's someth...

The Illegal Immigration Problem

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Can we trust the political class on immigration reform? Specifically, can this administration be counted upon to enforce any requirement to ...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Craig/Rosenberg Debate

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A pair of philosophers who couldn't be more different met Friday night at Purdue University to debate the question whether faith in God ...

Evolution and Altruism

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An article in Science Daily on altruistic behavior in plants, of all things, quotes a Harvard evolutionary biology professor named William ...

Why We Need the 2nd Amendment

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One of the types of firearms that some folks would like to ban from public use are semi-automatic weapons - The very type of weapon that sav...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

More on Women in Combat

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I recently posted a piece by an Iraq vet named Ryan Smith about some of the problems created by putting men and women together in combat co...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Mr. Obama's First Four Years

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The Washington Post's George Will opines that President Obama's record over the last four years, and his apparent plans for the nex...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Word Power

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Want to do better on your SATs, improve your chances of making more money and having a successful career? According to educational expert E...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Who Cares If It's a Human Person?

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One indication that people on one side of an issue are either winning or losing the intellectual argument is that, strangely enough, they gr...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Media Derelictions

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I realize that complaints about the dismal lack of professional fairness and objectivity in our major media are low-hanging fruit so easy to...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Welcome to Brave New World

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Wesley J. Smith has a piece at First Things that should send chills down the spines of every reader. He argues that the radical environment...

Women in Combat

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Ryan Smith is an attorney who was also a combat Marine veteran of the Iraq War. He points to a little commented upon aspect of the Obama adm...