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Judicial Impartiality Judge Vaughan

Posted on February 07, 2010
Judicial Impartiality Judge Vaughan Walker - the judge in the Prop 8 trial - is a homosexual, which was an "open secret" not disclosed in anything I'd read previously. "Not that there's anything wrong with that." Because it's obviously irrelevant to anything...

The Book of Eli The "Book of Eli"

Posted on February 07, 2010
The Book of Eli The "Book of Eli" is simply the greatest Evangelical/Pentecostalist Post-Apocalyptic movie starring Denzel Washington ever made!!! Denzel Washington manages to make even being a Baptist look cool. Alright, my tongue is someone planted in my cheek, but the serious point is that "The Book of Eli" really does communicate a Pentecostalist ethos in a serious, substantial and strong

No, he can't!!! Obama acknowledges

Posted on February 06, 2010
No, he can't!!! Obama acknowledges that Health Care may die.  AP acknowledges that Obama seems contradictory. No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress...

First Principles ...are true

Posted on February 06, 2010
First Principles ...are true by inspection.

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Why are Liberals so Condescending? According

Posted on February 06, 2010
Why are Liberals so Condescending? According to the Washington Post: Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative

I guess I'll file this under "truth

Posted on February 06, 2010
I guess I'll file this under "truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be plausible." I'll be honest, I don't know what to do with this one. Pornography seems to be "protected speech" for purposes of the "right to free speech" but in Australia it now seems to be illegal to be a small-breasted porn star...

Playing Spot the Idiot Francis

Posted on February 05, 2010
Playing Spot the Idiot Francis Beckwith shares: The gentleman speaking, Harry Knox, serves on President Barack Obama?s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Because of Knox's comments, House Minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) has called on Knox to resign...

Californians, you have been hosed

Posted on February 05, 2010
Californians, you have been hosed again. Remember when a majority of California voters decided to fund one form of research - the one that chopped up baby humans - to the tune of $6 billion?  Remember when I said that going long on a technology that venture capitalists would not underwrite was stupid, stupid, stupid?  Remember how I said that it would suck the oxygen, i...

"The redneck eschatology in 'American

Posted on February 05, 2010
"The redneck eschatology in 'American Pie'" The Paragraph Farmer does a compare and contrast on "American Pie" versus "Imagine."

Response to JD on the Private Interpretation

Posted on February 05, 2010
Response to JD on the Private Interpretation and the Epistemic Advantages of "thinking with the Church." Jon, on further reflection, as I was driving to Santa Cruz, I think it is obviously true that everyone engage in ?private interpretation? to some extent and likewise everyone thinks "with the Church? (Augustine) or with the ?mind of Christ? (Paul) to differing extents...

Summa, Question 112 - The Mission

Posted on February 05, 2010
Summa, Question 112 - The Mission of the Angels Here is the "Pencast" of our Communio discussion on Question 112 - the Mission of the Angels - in the Summa Thelogiae. Interesting discussion on Angelogy. Is St. Thomas right? Who knows, but it is very esoteric...

Debate Matt Slick does the best

Posted on February 05, 2010
Debate Matt Slick does the best job of explaining the Kalam Cosmological Argument that I've heard. At the very end, he even explains what it means to say that God is timeless. Worth listening to.

Law and Goodness in the Catholic

Posted on February 02, 2010
Law and Goodness in the Catholic and Reformed Traditions This is from Law Professor David Operbeck at Beliefnet. What do you think the doctrine of the fall implies about human nature? How do these implications relate to theories of law? Can we consider acts of civil society that seem to be "good" - for example, efforts by non-Christians and Christians alike to care for victims of the Haitian

Hitler learns that Global Warming

Posted on February 02, 2010
Hitler learns that Global Warming lies have been uncovered.

This word "science"... I do no

Posted on February 01, 2010
This word "science"... I do no think it means what you think it means. It's gotten to be a really lop-sided Babe Ruth Baseball game that should be called on account of the "mercy rule." How many things can the AGW forces pooch?  Now, it seems that many of its vaunted claims of melting glaciers and diminished rain forests were propoganda fabrication known to be such by the same authorities who

"In the past three decades, glaciers

Posted on February 01, 2010
"In the past three decades, glaciers have receded at alarming rates in Alpine Europe, tropical Africa and sub-Arctic Alaska." According to the Guardian. Apparently, that conclusion is based on an anecdotal information from a mountaineering magazine and a student dissertation...

This is, well, odd Is Obama bowing

Posted on February 01, 2010
This is, well, odd Is Obama bowing to the Mayor of Tampa?  Why? Here is a link to a video of the bow. Strange.

File under "Is she out of her freakin'

Posted on February 01, 2010
File under "Is she out of her freakin' mind?" According to documents obtained through the FOIA, Nancy Pelosi has a practice of commandeering military planes for her family's personal use: "Since Nancy Pelosi took over as Speaker in 2006, she's rung up millions in military travel expenses to commute between San Francisco and Washington...

Water is Wet - another study on

Posted on January 31, 2010
Water is Wet - another study on sex This one is useful in that it confirms common sense, i.e., something denied by our liberal shapers of culture. Two recent studies led by RAND Health behavioral scientist Rebecca Collins examined the impact of TV sex on teenagers? sexual beliefs and activities...

Music Archeology Is Procul Harem's

Posted on January 31, 2010
Music Archeology Is Procul Harem's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" based on a poem by Rober Burns? Don't know, but it would be cool if it was.

Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions

Posted on January 30, 2010
Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Dinner Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

Save the Date! This is a "Youtubish"

Posted on January 30, 2010
Save the Date! This is a "Youtubish" wedding announcement that was done by the engaged couple without professional assistance. You'll enjoy it, unless you're a total misanthrope and/or curmudgeon, but, then, I'm a total misanthrope and curmudgeon - I go out on Valentine's Day to heckle people with dates - and even I enjoyed it...

Well, yes, it does seem that dropping

Posted on January 30, 2010
Well, yes, it does seem that dropping the cooler stations from the analysis might conveniently give the appearance of Global Warming In the 1990s, when the Anthropogenic Global Warming band-wagon really got rolling, it seems that scientists at NASA and NOAA decided to eliminate cooler high altitude and rural weather stations from the system it used to determine global temperature...

Possible Backlash on Homosexual

Posted on January 30, 2010
Possible Backlash on Homosexual Living Arrangement that Some Want to Call Marriage Hawaii - of all places - has killed a "civil union" bill that would have granted the legal benefits of marriage to homosexual couples. Hawaii is not exactly a bastion of bitter conservatives, clinging to their guns and religion...

Thought of the Day "I suppose

Posted on January 30, 2010
Thought of the Day "I suppose that if a fish were thoughtfully to consider the matter, she might have a hard time determining the differences we treasure between Al Gore and a sperm whale. Both of them are large and one of them is streamlined." David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions

Eternal Light Grant Him Ralph

Posted on January 29, 2010
Eternal Light Grant Him Ralph McInery has passed away. On "Catholic Authors", McInery came across as an authentically decent person.  From all accounts that I've read, his public persona matched his private reality.

"The Shaming of The Scientific

Posted on January 29, 2010
"The Shaming of The Scientific American" Roger Simon joins Burt Rutan in pointing out that The Scientific American has been whoring for the Global Warming cabal, particularly in publishing an article that is completely undermined by the revelations of the last month...

Stewart on Matthews: "He's one

Posted on January 29, 2010
Stewart on Matthews: "He's one scotch away from being Ron Burgundy."

"Is President Obama bored with

Posted on January 29, 2010
"Is President Obama bored with the job?" So asks Byron York: He won in 2004, but the Senate proved unsatisfying, too. By mid-2006, Majority Leader Harry Reid "sensed his frustration and impatience, had heard rumblings that Obama was already angling to head back home and take a shot at the Illinois governorship," write Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in the new book Game Change...

Spot the Idiot Or spot the racist. Chris

Posted on January 28, 2010
Spot the Idiot Or spot the racist. Chris Matthews forgot that Obama was black for an hour.

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