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"Al Franken's Dick Move"... ...according

Posted on December 18, 2009
"Al Franken's Dick Move"... ...according to Anne Althouse. But it makes sense.  Franken's a leftist.  Leftists have defined Lieberman as "the enemy."  Leftists define the enemy as not worthy of respect and you get this...

The Tyranny of Autonomy Father

Posted on December 18, 2009
The Tyranny of Autonomy Father Barron explains how a tyrannical mindset results from the pro-choice ideology.

Another crack in the wall Russians

Posted on December 17, 2009
Another crack in the wall Russians confirm that Global Warming is based on "cherry-picked" data. Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with

The Legality of Stigmatizing a

Posted on December 17, 2009
The Legality of Stigmatizing a Minority Group Wintery Knight posts on the arguments in front of the Ninth Circuit on San Francisco's resolution condeming Catholic teaching on homosexuality as being "foreign meddling." Here's the primary article: A panel of eleven judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in San Francisco will hear oral arguments tomorrow, December 16, concerning

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The Twelfth Best Christmas Film.... ...is

Posted on December 16, 2009
The Twelfth Best Christmas Film.... ...is "One Magic Christmas", according to John Nolte. I'm a sucker for this film.  There's not a Christmas that goes by without my watching it, along with those other classics of the season, "Ernest Saves Christmas" and "The Muppet Christmas Carol...

Or perhaps it was just a crappy

Posted on December 16, 2009
Or perhaps it was just a crappy movie that people didn't want to pay to see? Particularly when the buried punch-line was that Christian believers should pay their hard-earned money to be insulted about their deeply-held religious beliefs. Actor blames Catholic Church for lack of Golden Compass sequels...

Global Warming: A Historical Perspective Or

Posted on December 15, 2009
Global Warming: A Historical Perspective Or why I won't start worrying until they can grow wheat in Greenland.

The reason for the reason for the

Posted on December 14, 2009
The reason for the reason for the season John Mark Reynolds has a nice post about how the Blessed Virgin Mary was blessed for more than the fact that she had a womb: Mary was the mother of God and the temptation is to stop there. It doesn?t get much greater than that does it? It does and Jesus says so in Luke 11: 27As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to

Ecological Disaster According

Posted on December 13, 2009
Ecological Disaster According to this article, the filling of the Mediterranean Sea basin could have occurred in two years. A cataclysmic flood could have filled the Mediterranean Sea ? which millions of years ago was a dry basin ? like a bathtub in the space of less than two years...

Liberal Fascism A documentary

Posted on December 13, 2009
Liberal Fascism A documentary film-maker asks a global warming scientists some "inconvenient questions" and hilarity ensues in the form of an attempt at censorship and retaliation for the exercise of free speech. I wonder what the legal basis for the security guard instruction of the cameraman to turn of the camera or he would "take it away" was...

"Oh, grow up", he explained. Joseph

Posted on December 11, 2009
"Oh, grow up", he explained. Joseph Bottums at First Things takes R.C. Sproul to task for his "pharisaism": Prominent Calvinist theologian R.C. Sproul refused to sign the Manhattan Declaration on the grounds, he now explains, that it assumes that the Catholic Church preaches the gospel...

Twilight would have been so much

Posted on December 10, 2009
Twilight would have been so much better.... ...if Buffy had been allowed to kick Edward's butt.

Justice, Mushrooms and "Manure

Posted on December 09, 2009
Justice, Mushrooms and "Manure in the Dark" We do not subscribe to the obscurantist notion that justice, like wild mushrooms, thrives on manure in the dark. As Presiding Justice Gilbert observed, "Just as a theater critic must see the play before writing a review, judges must carefully consider the evidence before deciding a case...

The Climate Data was Fixed This

Posted on December 09, 2009
The Climate Data was Fixed This post looks at the raw data from one station in Australia, which didn't look anything like what the "Warmists" wanted until they adjusted it.

Did Christianity Cause the Crash Atlantic

Posted on December 09, 2009
Did Christianity Cause the Crash Atlantic magazine has made an exceptionally broad paint roller to smear as many groups as possible with this article.  Atlantic can certainly blame the "prosperity gospel", but how different is the "prosperity gospel" from the political nostrums that the Democrats routinely push, where everyone can have a house and never have to pay?  After all, it was an Obama

Richard Dawkins on why he won't

Posted on December 08, 2009
Richard Dawkins on why he won't debate William Lane Craig Dawkins' explanation is the pinnacle of hubris.  Dawkins is the worst kind of poseur in the area of theology and philosophy, and would have an nfair advantage in the area of polemical debate with the average bishop in that they would attempt to understand Dawkins' raving nonsense, and would lose valuable time in the effort...

The Nativity is "Hate Speech" Wintery

Posted on December 08, 2009
The Nativity is "Hate Speech" Wintery Knight points to Dan Barker as proof of his argument on why some people reject their Christian tradition.  WK's argumetn is definitely worth reading. I was interested by this video from last year where Barker essentially acknowledges that the atheist game is to piss on Christian sensibilities.

Trust us, we're scientists Our

Posted on December 03, 2009
Trust us, we're scientists Our motives are pure. We have nothing to gain from fudging the data... NASA climate scientist pleads guilty to contract fraud. A former top climate scientist who had become of one the scientific world's most cited authorities on the human effect on Earth's atmosphere was sentenced to probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to steering lucrative no-bid contracts to

Hide the Decline Here is an explanation

Posted on December 03, 2009
Hide the Decline Here is an explanation for "Mike's Nature trick to hide the decline": First, the data games: the data manipulation that has been most seized upon by bloggers involves the choice of which sources of temperature data should be used to reflect climate trends after 1960...

D'accord At Evangel, John Mark

Posted on December 02, 2009
D'accord At Evangel, John Mark Reynolds explains why Christians should oppose the Ugandan law making homosexuality subject to the death penalty: Morally, the bill is bad for numerous reasons. First and most importantly, it places the life of the citizens of Uganda, fellow humans created God?s image, in peril for grossly insufficient reasons...

Speaking of Paradigms As a historian

Posted on December 02, 2009
Speaking of Paradigms As a historian - and I have the Bachelor's degree to prove it - Global Warming hysteria never made any sense to me because of an undoubted scientific fact called the "Medieval Warm Period" ("MWP") during which Vikings set up agricultural colonies in Greenland...

Climategate Fallout Australia

Posted on December 02, 2009
Climategate Fallout Australia ditches "Cap and Trade." Emboldened following the Climategate scandal, the Liberal opposition in Australia's parliament threw out its pro-Kyoto leader yesterday and then today, under the leadership of global warming skeptic Tony Abbott, voted down the government's plan to pass cap and trade legislation...

Climategate makes the New York

Posted on December 02, 2009
Climategate makes the New York Times - sort of Although the New York Times is reporting that CRU chief Phil Jones has stepped down, the headline suggests that he has been suspended to allow the investigation of how the e-mails were made public. Here is the story in full, as a kind of tribute to the Pravda style of journalism that pervades the mainstream media: Climatologist Leaves Post in

More Climate Fraud Douglas Keenan's

Posted on December 01, 2009
More Climate Fraud Douglas Keenan's research was one of the reports that the CRU tried to silence.  The reason,  apparently, was that one of the leaders of the CRU - Phil Jones - was found to have committed fraud in one of his pro-AGW reports. According to Keenan: In 2007, I published a peer-reviewed paper alleging that some important research relied upon by the IPCC (for the treatment of

CRU Information was Released by

Posted on November 30, 2009
CRU Information was Released by a Whistle-blower This Wall Street Journal article suggests that the now-famous CRU data was released by a whistle-blower going by the acronym "FOI", which suggests "Freedom of Information", a critical aspect of the e-mails: For anyone who doubts the power of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a

Trust us, we're scientists. The

Posted on November 30, 2009
Trust us, we're scientists. The Telegraph points to the unraveling of the worst scandal in science since the Piltdown Man. But the question which inevitably arises from this systematic refusal to release their data is ? what is it that these scientists seem so anxious to hide? The second and most shocking revelation of the leaked documents is how they show the scientists trying to manipulate

East Anglia Admits Throwing Away

Posted on November 30, 2009
East Anglia Admits Throwing Away Raw Climate Data SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years...

Viscount Monckton on Global Warming Monckton

Posted on November 29, 2009
Viscount Monckton on Global Warming Monckton was Margaret Thatcher's Science Advisor. In this one, Monckton points out that Al Gore won't debate him or take unscripted questions.  Maybe because he is so ignorant that he thinks the interior of the Earth is several millions of degrees in temperature? Check out the rest of the interview at Wintery Knight.

Religion of Peace Update Muslim

Posted on November 28, 2009
Religion of Peace Update Muslim gunmen level church in Mosul. Mosul (AsiaNews) ? Explosive devices were detonated this morning at two Christian sites in Mosul, the Church of Saint Ephrem and the Mother House of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine...

Trying Terrorists Michael Gerson

Posted on November 28, 2009
Trying Terrorists Michael Gerson at the Washington Post notes that President Obama was not consulted by Attorney General Holder on the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorsts in New York: Second, we have learned since the announcement that Holder apparently did not consult Obama before deciding to bring the Sept...

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