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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Myth of the Moderate Muslim

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Last January I did a post on moderate Islam which quoted at length from a column by former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy who argued that the i...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Despicable

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In a recent post on the Orlando tragedy I commented in passing that those who were blaming Christians for the actions of an ISIS-inspired ha...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Radical Reversal

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Yesterday I said that perhaps after the Orlando massacre of gays the LGBT community might rethink their support of the Obama administration...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Why Are We Doing This?

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In the wake of the horrific murders of over fifty homosexuals at a gay club in Orlando, a crime perpetrated by Omar Mateen, the Muslim son o...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Some Reasons Why Atheism Is Philosophically Untenable

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At Uncommon Descent William J. Murray lists ten reasons why atheists are "delusional." I'd prefer the word "inconsistent...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Major Democrat Implies Obama Unqualified for Presidency

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Former Philadelphia mayor and Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell declared Wednesday that Hillary Clinton should not pick Sen. Elizabeth Warre...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Life's Meaning (Pt. II)

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This is the second of two posts on an article by former pastor and now atheist Ryan Bell on his claim that life can be meaningful without th...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Life's Meaning (Pt. I)

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Since ancient times philosophers, poets, and other thinkers have pondered the question of what purpose there is, if any, to human existence,...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Trump's Inner Democrat

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Donald Trump has found yet another way to reveal his inner liberal Democrat. When speaking about the court case concerning Trump University...
Monday, June 6, 2016

How We Can Help in Fallujah

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A lot of us read stories of the horrors and suffering Iraqis and Syrians are enduring at the hands of the savages who go by the name of ISIS...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Boosting the Trump Vote

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Wonder why anyone would support Donald Trump? Watch the video of what happened to people leaving his rally in San Jose on Thursday and perh...
Friday, June 3, 2016

New Hope for Stroke Victims

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We're fortunate to live in a time and place where scientific knowledge and technology seems to be snowballing. A recent article in the ...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Liberal Education

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Once upon a time a liberal education meant that one studied, and desired to study, the best that had been thought and written in the humanit...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The Democratic Ticket

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It seems from all outward appearances that the contest for leader of the free world will be between a mendacious, fabulistic, venal, incompe...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Realists and Idealists

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As everyone knows, words mean different things in different contexts. In philosophy, if one is a "realist" she believes that some ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

On Memorial Day We Remember

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Memorial Day was originally established to honor those who lost their lives in service to our country in time of war, but it's appropria...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Terrorism and Drone Strikes

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One of the frequently-heard objections to the policy of using drone strikes to take out terrorist targets in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and else...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Summer Reading

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Thinking of some books to read over the summer, maybe while lolling about on the beach? If you like crime novels, mystery, and intellectual ...

Not Enough Evidence

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The famous atheist philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell was once asked to suppose that he'd died and found himself face to fac...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Above the Law

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Guy Benson at Townhall dissects the State Department's Inspector General's disclosures concerning the IG's investigation of Sec...