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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Is He Deliberate Or in Denial?

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A friend sent me a link to an article at Capital Commentary by Bradford Littlejohn who argues that President Obama is taking some very unco...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Convoluted Conflict

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As a primer for the President's speech tonight on American strategy for dealing with ISIL here's an update on the state of things in...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Who Would Pay a Materialist Ethicist?

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A week or so ago Barry Arrington at Uncommon Descent asked why anyone would hire a materialist (someone who believes that matter and energy...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Political Correctness and the NFL

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It seems that the contretemps over the team name of the Washington Redskins has subsided, much to the chagrin of liberals who think it terri...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

Intelligently Designed Robots

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Watch this video and marvel at the brilliance of the people who designed and built this robot which can assemble itself and then walk away: ...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Barbarians at the Gates

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This video documents an amazing story of survival and escape by a Shiite Muslim from the Sunni savages in ISIS. Part of the fascinating tale...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

The Myth of the 10%

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The movie Lucy , I'm told, is making a big splash in some pools this summer. The film pushes the idea that we only use about 10%-15% of ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Anomalous Data

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In science, data that don't fit a widely-accepted theory are considered to be anomalous and swept under the rug, so to speak, until the ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Preempting Disaster

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Myron Magnet at City Journal asks what a responsible president would do, given the dangers that face us today: When a British-educated Musl...
Monday, September 1, 2014

The Left's Moral Cowardice

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What happens when a society is so steeped in the dogmas of liberal multiculturalism that they're no longer willing to hold others to the...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Cruel Logic

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I posted this last January, but, since the topic is coming up in my classes again this week I thought it'd be appropriate to post it aga...
Friday, August 29, 2014

No Strategy for Dealing with ISIS

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In a press conference yesterday President Obama announced that he doesn't have a strategy yet for dealing with ISIS in Syria, and a lot ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Molecular Machines

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There are three possible positions to take with respect to biological evolution. One can hold that (1) all of life arose by random, unguided...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

How Liberalism Stifles an Economy

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Burger King is joining the growing list of corporations which are relocating their corporate offices outside of the country in order to avoi...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Age of Atheism

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Lincoln Mullen has a review in Books and Culture of Peter Watson's The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of G...
Monday, August 25, 2014

The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

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It's almost unsporting to look for examples of hypocrisy among the hosts on MSNBC. One almost has to swerve to avoid the examples that l...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Compassionate Conservatism

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Erick Erickson is one of the most well-known conservative bloggers, and his blog, Red State, is very popular on the right. He's also a C...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Is Our President a Sociopath?

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On both ends of the political spectrum commentators are dismayed by Mr. Obama's seeming detachment from the concerns and issues confront...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Worst Religious Persecution in History

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Mark Movsesian at First Things accuses both the Obama administration and, to some extent, the Bush administration of having a moral blind s...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

It's Not Over

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President Obama declared mission accomplished in northern Iraq proclaiming that the Yazidi's had been rescued, a humanitarian disaster a...