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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Obama's Long Fall

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Joseph Curl cites a new Quinnipiac poll in support of his claim that President Obama is the worst president of our lifetime. I don't th...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Why Liberals Can't Govern

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John Hawkins at Townhall.com explains the reasons behind what has become increasingly obvious to even the most myopic observers - that libe...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

The Last Good American Atheist

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Sean Salai S.J. writes movingly of the evolution of Christopher Hitchens from an independent-minded political journalist of the first order...
Friday, July 4, 2014

The Declaration of Independence

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Today being Independence Day in these United States I thought it might be instructive to revisit The Declaration of Independence with the ai...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Why Isn't the Universe God?

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It's often argued that the universe must have had a cause and that this fact is more probable with the belief that naturalism is false ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Poetry Feeds the Soul

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A friend and I were discussing over lunch the other day the incredible literary quality of letters written by Civil War soldiers. The writer...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Just Weigh the Fish

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Philosopher Robert Pasnau pens an entertaining column at The Stone about the low esteem in which philosophy is held in some academic preci...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Please Stop Helping

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Jason Riley pleads with white liberals in a column at the New York Post to stop trying to help African Americans. In his view, liberal solu...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Being a Woman in a Muslim Land

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Gabriel Said Reynolds, a professor at Notre Dame, gives us the details of Meriam Ibrahim's ordeal at the hands of Muslim fundamentalist...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Open Primaries

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Amidst all the commentary I've seen on the recent runoff election in Mississippi in which the septuagenarian incumbent Republican senato...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Turning the Jihadis

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Strategy Page has an interesting piece on an aspect of the war on terror we rarely hear about, the program to "turn" captured jih...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Obama's Foreign Policy

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James Oliphant at National Journal assesses the President's foreign policy achievements and finds them pretty thin. [Sending 300 milita...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

What Good Does This Do?

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The Presbyterian Church USA has voted to divest itself of shares in three American companies that sell products to Israel which uses them i...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Bring Back the Special Prosecutor?

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Carl Cannon explains why both political parties are understandably chary of special prosecutors, but also why the current IRS scandal seems...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Delivering the Mail

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Ann Gauger, a biologist at Evolution News and Views has a brief but fascinating piece on the cellular "postal system." She points...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Where Atheism Leads

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Last November I wrote a post titled Atheism and Nihilism in which I quoted a commenter on another blog who outlined the nihilistic implicat...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

God and Cosmology Pt. II

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Yesterday I mentioned the interview by Notre Dame philosopher Gary Gutting of atheist philosopher Tim Maudlin who made the claim that neith...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

God and Cosmology

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Gary Gutting interviews philosopher Tim Maudlin for the New York Times' Opinionator. I'm reluctant to disagree with such an accompl...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

The Holocaust Washington Ignores

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All over the world, anywhere there are Muslims living in proximity to Christians, Christians are being murdered. Indeed, anyone who is not a...
Monday, June 16, 2014

How the West Won

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I recently finished Rodney Stark's excellent new book titled How the West Won . Like all his books HWW is history that reads like a nove...