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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Lenin with a Charming Smile

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This story from Breitbart should come as no surprise. When the administration in Washington does everything it can to discourage employers ...
Friday, August 2, 2013

The Third Way

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A friend has on occasion stated wistfully that he wishes there were a tertium quid or third way between liberalism and conservatism. I unde...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Conversation on the Conversation

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We see that the Democrats are calling , again, for a national conversation on race. That's understandable given that a conversation on a...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Eight Baffling Questions About Your Brain

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George Dvorsky at io9 discusses eight things about the brain that we have no idea how to explain. Here are the eight with a sentence or two...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Fourth Trimester Abortion

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This would be funny were it not for what it says about how uncritical and thoughtless are some of those who are allegedly among our best and...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Real Heroes

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It's often lamented that our culture makes heroes out of people who aren't and fails to make heroes out of people who are. I recent...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

God and Quantum Physics

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One of the fascinating developments of the last two decades is how much work in both philosophy and science points to the existence of a tra...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Mr. Holder's Gun Policy and Other Scandals

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Attorney General Eric Holder still refuses to return George Zimmerman's weapon even though Zimmerman has been found innocent of all cha...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Jesus and Mohammed

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Pamela Geller notes an interesting example of media religious bias. There's a book out on Jesus, titled Zealot , which is receiving a l...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Liberal Failure Is Republicans' Fault?

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For sixty years Detroit has been run by the Democrat party which has governed according to a liberal tax and spend philosophy. The result is...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The President's Race Speech

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David Brooks of the New York Times on Sunday stated that Mr. Obama's speech on race last week was one of the highlights of his presidenc...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Atheism and Nihilism

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Randy Boyagoda talks about atheist author David Shields ( Reality Hunger: A Manifesto ) in a recent column at First Things. Here's an e...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Absence of God and Shaw's Two Percent

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George Bernard Shaw once wrote that, "Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety five pe...

Talking about the Issue

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President Obama on Thursday opined on the George Zimmerman trial in a speech that cries out for deconstructive analysis of what it tells us...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Et Tu, Unions?

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As public confidence in Obamacare suffers one blow after another even Democrats are heading for the tall grass. Senator Max Baucus called it...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Random Thoughts on a Tragedy

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I thought I'd share some ruminations I had (and you probably had, too) in the wake of the Zimmerman trial: It's disturbing, I think...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The Secular Society

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At The New York Times David Brooks takes on the formidable task of summarizing Charles Taylor's dense 800 page tome titled A Secular Ag...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

T-Cells and Cancer Cures

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The U.K. Independent has a story that may soon become international news. It seems that researchers have developed a means of treating can...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Colors and Patterns

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An article at Phys.org recounts some amazing results of research that was done into why bird feathers take on the colors and patterns that ...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Will There Be Blood?

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It seems that a lot of people, including a lot of African Americans are fearful that should George Zimmerman be acquitted there'll be r...