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Thursday, July 16, 2020

What Caused the Universe?

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A BBC  article  from a couple of years ago raises the possibility that we are living in a computer simulation something like the Matrix, and...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Not All the Polls are Grim for Trump

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Recent polls have not been kind to President Trump, showing him trailing Joe Biden by at least 8 points. Yet not all the polls are so gloomy...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

One Statue That Should Be Taken Down

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I wrote recently that I think there's a reasonable case to be made for removing some statues, especially those of Confederate soldiers,...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Do Facts Matter?

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John Sexton at Hot Air asks  this question : "When did it first become clear to you that verifiable facts didn’t matter to the opinions...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Why So Many Hoaxes?

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An Oregon man who claimed on Facebook that he had received a racist letter has recently admitted to police that he wrote the letter to hims...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Our American Totalitarians

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An open letter to Harper's Magazine defending freedom of speech and thought and signed by 150 sundry journalists and academics has caus...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Recanting Climate Alarmism

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With all that's going on in the country right now this article at Quillette by prominent environmentalist and climate activist Michael ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

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From time to time we've talked about how physicists and mathematicians have expressed both surprise and wonder that the universe should...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

BLM's Dubious Ideological Roots

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Black Lives Matter has been very much in the news recently as one of the participants in the turmoil besetting our cities. The media would ...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Effacing Our History

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It may surprise some readers when I say that I think some communities have good reason to consider removing from their statehouses and town ...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

On America's Birthday

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Today many Americans will celebrate their Independence Day, the day set aside to commemorate the signing of our Declaration of Independence ...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Racism at the New York Times

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Imagine it were discovered that a white journalist at the New York Times had, as a college student, written a letter to the student paper a...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

More on Gorsuch's Terrible Argument

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We recently featured on VP excerpts from Rusty Reno's analysis of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion in Bostock v. Clayto...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

"A Reprehensible Idea"

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Jordan Peterson opens the video below by claiming that "the idea of white privilege is absolutely reprehensible."  I believe ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

What Is Social Justice?

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As anyone who has  spent much time  on most college campuses during the last couple of years can attest, the term "social justice...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Cosmic Fine-Tuning Points to a Cosmic Designer

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This eight minute video succinctly explains how cosmic fine-tuning is strong evidence for an intelligently designed universe. Don't be ...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

A Refreshing Voice

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Coleman Hughes is a refreshing black voice in the conversation about race in this country and to see why watch this 7:45 interview with Davi...
Friday, June 26, 2020

The Astonishing Krebs Cycle

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The Krebs citric acid cycle is a complex process that occurs in the mitochondria of most of the cells in our bodies, resulting in the produ...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Miscellaneous Thoughts on the Current Crisis

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It wasn't too long ago that bumper stickers and t-shirts proclaimed the message that we should "fear no art." Portraits of the...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

An Endless Argument

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Philosopher of biology Paul Nelson  constructs an imaginary but not uncommon exchange between a Darwinian (Evolver) and an Intelligent Desi...