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Cheaters never prosper... ...at

Posted on November 18, 2010
Cheaters never prosper... ...at least where Professor Richard Quinn is concerned. This is a very interesting and worthwhile article and video.  It seems that Professor Richard Quinn noticed through statistical analysis that the grade distribution for his class was skewed...

Outrage of the Day. Terrorist

Posted on November 18, 2010
Outrage of the Day. Terrorist who confessed to murder acquitted. According to Daniel Foster at NRO: Ahmed Ghailani was found not guilty of each of the over 280 counts against him ? save one ? in the first civilian trial of a Gitmo detainee conducted by the Obama administration...

Dhimmi Alert. Egyptian Muslim

Posted on November 18, 2010
Dhimmi Alert. Egyptian Muslim crowd of 10,000 attack Christian Coptic community: The large mob of Muslims from el-Nowahed and the surrounding villages besieged and waged an attack against Coptic homes amidst cries of "Allah is the greatest" and other Islamic Jihadist slogans...

Unable to remember faces? You

Posted on November 18, 2010
Unable to remember faces? You are probably a super-reader. That explains an awful lot.

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In the Bizarro-Upside Down World

Posted on November 18, 2010
In the Bizarro-Upside Down World that is Modern America... ....Muslim women may be excused from pat-down searches at airport security because it offends them. Yea, well, the rest of us, too, but we don't count because we are not an official victim class of powerlessness...

A Poke in the Eye for the Episcopal

Posted on November 18, 2010
A Poke in the Eye for the Episcopal Church. The Fifth District Court of Appeals of the State of California has held that the First Amendment's rule that courts not get involved in adjudicating religious issues means that courts not get involved in adjudicating religious issues...

Great Moments in Fresno Culture. Fresno

Posted on November 17, 2010
Great Moments in Fresno Culture. Fresno ranks #1 for having the dumbest class in the history of dumb classes: Let?s hear it straight from a student at Cal State Fresno, where they offered this course that epitomizes all that is wrong with California ? ?Self-Esteem?: ?It was taught by two old hippies...

Argumentative Fallacies Organized

Posted on November 16, 2010
Argumentative Fallacies Organized for Visual Learners.... ...because nothing is cooler than a flow-chart. Via Mark Shea.

"thanx so much for uhelp ican going

Posted on November 16, 2010
"thanx so much for uhelp ican going to graduate to now". Confessions of a fake student paper author.   I've written toward a master's degree in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in sociology, and a handful of postgraduate credits in international diplomacy...

A Mid-Career Retrospective Jonathan

Posted on November 15, 2010
A Mid-Career Retrospective Jonathan V. Last writes about the "American Narcissus": Yet you don?t have to delve deep into armchair psychology to see how Obama?s vanity has shaped his presidency. In January 2009 he met with congressional leaders to discuss the stimulus package...

Economics Explained. Via

Posted on November 15, 2010
Economics Explained. Via The Weekly Standard.

Great video of people doing impossible

Posted on November 15, 2010
Great video of people doing impossible things.... ...of course, you don't see all the ER room visits for when things don't work out so well.

When someone brings up the Crusades

Posted on November 14, 2010
When someone brings up the Crusades as evidence of Christian intolerance.... ...mention this massacre that happened last week. According to the Guardian: Ghassan Salah, 17, had just arrived for the Sunday night service with his mother, Nadine, and brother, Ghaswan, when the gunmen burst through the cathedral's huge wooden doors...

Ghost Bike Watch more free do

Posted on November 13, 2010
Ghost Bike Watch more free documentaries

Ah, yes, the old "white people

Posted on November 13, 2010
Ah, yes, the old "white people can't rap" joke. This church skit is really well done, but kind of creepy. How often are there these kind of skits in Sunday services?  It seems fairly "Broadwayish."  And aren't these the people who complain about the incorporation of paganism into Christian liturgy during the 4th Century?

Remember when liberalism was about

Posted on November 13, 2010
Remember when liberalism was about respecting people's right to choose? San Francisco may vote to outlaw circumcision. I wonder if they've bothered to include a religious exemption.

If it seems that a lot of "new

Posted on November 13, 2010
If it seems that a lot of "new atheists" are assholes, that's  because... ...they are. In the course of  reviewing Sam Harris' new book "The Moral Landscape, Vox Day observes: What Sam neglects to mention is that it also indicates that there is no difference between the two categories of belief, thus removing from his potential arsenal what he had hoped would be a substantive scientific

Political rhetoric outstrips reality

Posted on November 13, 2010
Political rhetoric outstrips reality by 98%. Hot Air provides some interesting data on actual demand for pre-existing insurance coverage: 255 million: The number of Americans with existing health insurance coverage. 20 million: The number of Americans without any health coverage at all due to economic circumstances...

They don't make Messiahs like they

Posted on November 13, 2010
They don't make Messiahs like they used to. Democrat consultants Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell in The Washington Post calls for Obama to be a one-term President. We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed...

It's usually in the last place

Posted on November 12, 2010
It's usually in the last place you look. Jupiter's "lost" stripe is found.

Pope Benedict on the Bible Pope

Posted on November 12, 2010
Pope Benedict on the Bible Pope Benedict has released a document on scripture which is called the most imortant on that subject since Vatican II. The text of Verbum Domine is here. Part of the text of Verbum Domine: Here we can point to a fundamental criterion of biblical hermeneutics: the primary setting for scriptural interpretation is the life of the Church...

The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. It's

Posted on November 12, 2010
The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. It's hard to believe that Gordon Lightfoot's song, which seems to recount something buried deep in history, was based on an event that Harry Reasoner reported.

If you are going to be a member

Posted on November 11, 2010
If you are going to be a member of a murderous, enslaving criminal conspiracy, make sure it beloved by leftists. Jonah Goldberg expresses frustration with the "free pass" that a particularly odious, murderous political ideology gets from the media: I?ve been traveling so I haven?t had a chance to chime in on the NYT cutesy-wutsey story about Communists meeting in NYC...

Ending Stalinism in American Academies. Todd

Posted on November 11, 2010
Ending Stalinism in American Academies. Todd Hartch reflects on his experience in coming out as a social conservative at Eastern Kentucky University: We have watched, though, as our campuses veered farther and farther off course. Sexual license is now taken for granted...

"Socrates was not a Belgian, the

Posted on November 10, 2010
"Socrates was not a Belgian, the Paris Underground is not a revolutionary movement and the essential tenet of Zen Buddhism is not every man for himself." At the National Catholic Register, Mark Shea links yours truly concerning last week's conversation with Apologetics 315 on the recommendation of John MacArthur's lectures on "The Heresies of the Catholic Church...

An Angel with No Name. This subject

Posted on November 09, 2010
An Angel with No Name. This subject came up one night at Communio - probably because this is the kind of thing that causes anxiety in Catholic circles, unlike, say, in Protestantism, where the big issues includes things like ordaining homosexual bishops and what kinds of snakes should be handled - and John Kasian said this same thing, but we all laughed at him because, really, who would ever

Free Speech is good.  Free Speech

Posted on November 09, 2010
Free Speech is good.  Free Speech lets us play "Spot the Idiot." Like cartoonist Ted Rall, and MSNBC who are seriously discussing whether now is the time for violent revolution.

Sounds like a reason to defund

Posted on November 09, 2010
Sounds like a reason to defund it. NPR CEO changes story and claims that defunding NPR would be devastating.

The awful 1950s - Sanity and Marriage Jennifer Robach

Posted on November 09, 2010
The awful 1950s - Sanity and Marriage Jennifer Robach Morse gives a talk on same-sex marriage, but, first, she discusses the dysfunctions engendered by "no fault" divorce.  Everything she says is true about the experience of childhood in the 50's as compared to modern childhood is true, and every bit is a tragedy.

Newsflash!  Lawrence O'Donnell

Posted on November 08, 2010
Newsflash!  Lawrence O'Donnell is a Socialist! According to the Daily Caller: Lawrence O?Donnell is a socialist. At least, that?s what the MSNBC commentator himself told Glenn Greenwald when they duked it out on the air Friday on ?Morning Joe.? ?I am a socialist,? O?Donnell said...

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