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Greece to be Reduced to a Satrapy

Posted on February 17, 2010
Greece to be Reduced to a Satrapy of an Imperial Power, again. Maybe this is a good idea, but is it what people thought they were signing up for in joining the European Union - namely, that they could lose their democracy to a bureaucracy in Belgian: Greece loses EU voting power in blow to sovereignty While the symbolic move to suspend Greece of its voting rights at one meeting makes no

Follower of Darwinian-Socialism

Posted on February 17, 2010
Follower of Darwinian-Socialism had a History of Violence. This Io-9 post on the Biology professor turned murderess is fascinating in a can't-look-away-from-the-car-wreck kind of way.  Io-9 is interested in clearing Amy Bishop of the charge that D&D unhinged her, but the woman had a history of violence going back to killing her brother and assaulting another woman in an IHOP who had taken the

The Higher Sodomy Ontario students

Posted on February 16, 2010
The Higher Sodomy Ontario students will be required to undergo homosexual indoctrination.  Public school children in Hamilton, Ontario will not be permitted to withdraw from classes that promote homosexuality, according to the Hamilton Mountain News...

The Liberal/Libertarian Alliance

Posted on February 16, 2010
The Liberal/Libertarian Alliance is Over Atheist/Socialist blogger P.Z. Myers has called out his roving bands of attack warthogs to wage jihad on atheist libertarians.  Much fun ensues. Theist/Libertarian Vox Day comments from the sidelines. What kicked off the internecine atheist blood-letting was this interview with Socialist Review by Science Fiction writer Iain Banks, which furnishes solid

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An Honest and Provocative Examination

Posted on February 16, 2010
An Honest and Provocative Examination of a Belief System Professor James Spiegel?s ?The Making of an Atheist? will undoubtedly polarize the reviews that will be offered here and on other forums. Spiegel?s thesis is that atheists are atheists not because of their intellectual doubts about the evidence offered for the existence of God, but because they choose by an act of will to disbelieve the

Nuclear Fresno From the Central

Posted on February 15, 2010
Nuclear Fresno From the Central Valley Business Times: The person who might ultimately be the one to head the building of a nuclear power plant in Fresno is scheduled to be the featured speaker at a meeting there in March. Anne Lauvergeon, a nuclear energy proponent and CEO of Areva SA, of Paris, France, will be the featured speaker at a luncheon hosted by Economic Development Corporation

The Book of Eli Father Barron

Posted on February 15, 2010
The Book of Eli Father Barron has his typically insightful review of the movie. Warning:  Spoilers!

Liberal Rules Making fun of the

Posted on February 15, 2010
Liberal Rules Making fun of the handicapped is insensitive, unless it is done to ridicule Sarah Palin.

Well said Ann Althouse nails the

Posted on February 14, 2010
Well said Ann Althouse nails the points that I've been fluttering around with the last series of posts on Global Warming scholarly malpractice - as well as prayer study post: Everyone should perceive flaws! To talk about "sceptics" as the ones who will "seize" upon "evidence" of flaws is unwittingly to make global warming into a matter of religion and not science...

Why Leftist Feminists are so Popular Two

Posted on February 14, 2010
Why Leftist Feminists are so Popular Two movements are adamantly opposed to Valentine's Day - well, three if you include bitter, single, divorced men who go out and heckle Valentine's day daters - Muslim fundamentalists and feminazis.  About the latter, this article from Front Page observes: In the West, meanwhile leftist feminists are not to be outdone by their jihadi allies in reviling ? and

More Cracks in the AGW Wall According

Posted on February 14, 2010
More Cracks in the AGW Wall According to the Times of London, increased temperature readings may be the result of urbanization and other factors that do not reflect general temperature: The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution...

Dinosaurs evolved from Birds Wait

Posted on February 14, 2010
Dinosaurs evolved from Birds Wait long enough and even theories evolve: "We're finally breaking out of the conventional wisdom of the last 20 years, which insisted that birds evolved from dinosaurs and that the debate is all over and done with," [zoologist John] Ruben said...

Scratch an Atheist, Find a Fundamentalist This

Posted on February 14, 2010
Scratch an Atheist, Find a Fundamentalist This blog summarizes an observation from Cardinal Schonborn 3. Fundamentalism and Scientism are Twins.Cardinal Schonborn said that the agnostic scientist and the fundamentalist believer essentially have the same understanding of God...

Scientist Acknowledges History,

Posted on February 13, 2010
Scientist Acknowledges History, Maybe The inventor of the infamous global warming "Hockey Stick" graph is acknowledging that his data was not "well organized" and that there is a "real issue" about whether the Middle Ages were warmer than today. This was during the "Medieval Warm Period," when it was warm enough for Vikings to settle in Greenland...

On the Hot Seat The former head

Posted on February 12, 2010
On the Hot Seat The former head of the IPCC - who knows that there is Global Warming but never read the IPCC report - gets roasted in this interview.

"He even has a freakin' Facebook

Posted on February 12, 2010
"He even has a freakin' Facebook page."

It may be time to re-read "The

Posted on February 12, 2010
It may be time to re-read "The Name of the Rose." Mike Potemra at National Review has this tantalizing deconstruction of Eco's novel: I just finished rereading Umberto Eco?s The Name of the Rose, for the first time since the 1980s, and I recommend it strongly to anyone who?s never tried it...

Scientists are People - Corrupt

Posted on February 12, 2010
Scientists are People - Corrupt and Prejudiced and Greedy - like Everyone Else. Here is a typical Left-blog hooting at the success of a skeptic obstretician who defeated a defamation claim filed by a researcher whose study the skeptic had criticized...

Snobby Brit Atheist proves the

Posted on February 12, 2010
Snobby Brit Atheist proves the Existence of God... ...while sticking his foot in his mouth.

And Entertaining Myster, but not

Posted on February 11, 2010
And Entertaining Myster, but not a Fantastic Fantasy My review of Charles de Lint's "The Mystery of Grace." Charles De Lint "The Mystery of Grace" kept me entertained all the way to the end, which is why I gave it 4 stars. It seems that I lose interest in a lot of urban fantasies at some point and then don't have enough interest to finish them, probably because they are cliches based on cliches

Gospel Hoax A defense against

Posted on February 10, 2010
Gospel Hoax A defense against the claim that the Secret Gospel of Mark was forged. The proprietor of the blog site that links to the defense is the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and believes that James "the Brother of Christ" induced the belief in Jesus' resurrection because of his family resemblance to the Messiah...

Aquinas Goes to Hollywood To return

Posted on February 10, 2010
Aquinas Goes to Hollywood To return to The Book of Eli, as occasioned by my happenstance reading of p. 12 of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on Hebrews. According Aquinas, there are five things required for someone to be a true prophet: 1. That the revelation of things that exceed all human knowledge "otherwise he is not called a prophet but a wise man...

Revenge of the Court Reporters Now,

Posted on February 09, 2010
Revenge of the Court Reporters Now, all those dumb things that lawyers say off the cuff - usually because they're thinking of the next question - will be publicized on "Overheard in Court." Can You Spell That? Q. Do you have any children, ma?am? A...

More Condescending Liberals Pamela

Posted on February 09, 2010
More Condescending Liberals Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugged takes on more liberal Harpies. The best response to Ron Reagan, Jr. would be to point out that he is selling out the memory of his father by  playing the stooge for the same people who called his father stupid and without a thought in his head, something he is now saying about Sarah Palin...

The works of nature - not the gaps

Posted on February 09, 2010
The works of nature - not the gaps in those works - proves God Stephen Barr on Intelligent Design: The emphasis in early Christian writings was not on complexity, irreducible or otherwise, but on the beauty, order, lawfulness, and harmony found in the world that God had made...

Hands off the Prize Rajendra K.

Posted on February 09, 2010
Hands off the Prize Rajendra K. Pachauri is a name to remember.  Dr. Pachauri is the head of the supposedly neutral International Panel on Climate Change and joined Al Gore in receiving a Nobel prize for their work on global warming.  As we know, Dr...

Time to retire Bob Beckel Beckel

Posted on February 08, 2010
Time to retire Bob Beckel Beckel is a regular on Fox News. He's always played the court sophist for the Democrats, but lately he has managed to head into some really scurrilous territory, and making some weird challenges of physical violence against Hannity...

Our Post-Modern - which is to say

Posted on February 07, 2010
Our Post-Modern - which is to say "ignorant" - President Physicist Frank Tripler excoriates a law review article that Obama worked on with Lawrence Tribe, which purported to incorporate the insights of modern physics into legal analysis.  Tripler's point is that Obama and Tribe completely misunderstand the conservative nature of modern physics...

File under "this word "science"....I

Posted on February 07, 2010
File under "this word "science"....I do not think it means what you think it means." According to Breitbart: The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said Friday...

The Last Acceptable Prejudice The

Posted on February 07, 2010
The Last Acceptable Prejudice The View harpies applaud Sarah Silverman's bigotted Anti-Catholic schtick.

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