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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Looking for Unicorns

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It's a fundamental tenet of conservative thought that government is rarely able to do anything efficiently and is usually unable to do i...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

We Are What We Read. And Watch

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An article by Julianne Chiaet at Scientific American notes that research is showing that reading literary fiction actually heightens the em...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Plato's Cave for Modern Man

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The following is a slightly revised version of a post I first put up on March 2nd, 2006. I thought I'd run it again since some of its th...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Federalist #58

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President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have both insisted in so many words that the House Republicans, in seeking to defund o...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Don't Blame the GOP

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House Speaker John Boehner has released a summary of the 14 spending bills the House of Representatives have passed to keep the government ...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Do They Vote?

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Ever wonder why Washington is so dysfunctional? One reason, perhaps, is that America is filled with citizens who have no idea what's goi...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Writing Boy

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The automaton (HT: ENV ) featured in this video is a work of genius. It was developed in the 18th century by a Swiss clockmaker named Pierre...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Cold-Hearted Harry

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CNN's Dana Bash does the unthinkable and asks a Democrat a tough question. Majority Leader Harry Reid appears to be flummoxed by it, dan...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Unintended Consequences

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Much is being made at some conservative opinion outlets about the fact that the insurance exchanges which were supposed to be ready by today...
Monday, September 30, 2013

A Shutdown Isn't Really a Shutdown

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If the government shuts down what would happen? Sean Lengell at the Washington Examiner gives us the scoop on what'll likely happen if ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Human Origins

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There's an interesting article at Salvo magazine on human evolution, or rather the lack of evidence for it. Casey Luskin reviews the cu...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Panpsychism

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Philosophers and scientists have been perplexed for centuries by the phenomenon of human consciousness. There seems to be no plausible expla...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Ted Cruz

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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has been roundly and viciously criticized, not only by Democrats but also by his fellow Republicans, for launching...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Mr. Obama Is about to Thank You for Your Vote

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The future of health care in America, or at least the cost of insurance, is beginning to become clear. The U.S. Department of Health and Hum...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Three Geologists

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Granville Sewell at Evolution News and Views places his tongue in his cheek and explains for us by means of a parable the difference betwee...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Can Science Satisfy? Pt. IV

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This is our last post in a series on an article in the Boston Review by Tania Lombrozo. Lombrozo, it will be remembered, wishes to argue th...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Can Science Satisfy? Pt. III

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In Part III of this series (see Pt. I here and Pt. II here ) on an essay by Tania Lombrozo in the Boston Review I want to consider the rea...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Social Darwinism

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Darwinians are fond of citing Theodosious Dobzhansky's assertion that "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolut...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Can Science Satisfy? Pt. II

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In a previous post I looked at the early paragraphs of a column written by Tania Lombrozo in The Boston Review in which she argues that sc...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

This Was Not Designed

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"Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved." So cautioned Nobel Prize winner...