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Thomas v. Darwin. A debate that

Posted on October 06, 2010
Thomas v. Darwin. A debate that only a nerd could love.

"We're losing jobs out here in

Posted on October 06, 2010
"We're losing jobs out here in California like a party clown with Tourette's Syndrome." ....according to Dennis Miller on The O'Reilly Factor. Good line.

I consider myself to be a Supreme

Posted on October 06, 2010
I consider myself to be a Supreme Court justice, but the United States government disagrees... .....which is why I am not a Supreme Court justice, and, if I was serious, why I would be considered insane. Time Magazine strikes again, by making the ordination of women as Catholic priests a "he said, she said" story: Like any good priest, Judy Lee knows how to use a Bible story...

Hope and Change. Judge bars prosecution

Posted on October 06, 2010
Hope and Change. Judge bars prosecution witness in civilian terror trial: Minutes before a major terrorism trial was about to begin, a federal judge barred prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday from using a key witness. The government had acknowledged it learned about the witness from the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, while he was being interrogated and held in a secret overseas jail run

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What the &*%@! Could Possibly Go

Posted on October 05, 2010
What the &*%@! Could Possibly Go Wrong With This? Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself. Don't these idiots ever read Science Fiction? I, for one, welcome our Artificially Intelligent Overlord.

"I Think My Wife's a Calvinist"

Posted on October 04, 2010
"I Think My Wife's a Calvinist" - A Love Song.

Great Moments in Fresno Legal History. Remember

Posted on October 04, 2010
Great Moments in Fresno Legal History. Remember the Fresno Alarm Company that thought that a great motivator for its employees was to spank them? Well, the case is back in court. And, yes, I'm interested because I have a piece of the action.

The Ethics of Science. Odd that

Posted on October 03, 2010
The Ethics of Science. Odd that the New Atheists hold science up as the summum bonum of human existence - and castigate religion for "poisoning" everything - when science left to its own devices will engage in such human experimentation as infecting unconsenting Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases to see what happens...

The Magisterium of the Media. As

Posted on October 02, 2010
The Magisterium of the Media. As a Catholic when you really need to get the final word on matters of faith and morals, you obviously turn to Time Magazine, which has determined that women claiming they are Catholic priests are actually Catholic priests...

Sheep Stealing. In Maryland, an

Posted on October 01, 2010
Sheep Stealing. In Maryland, an entire Episcopal parish - founded in 1842 - has voted to leave the Episcopal Church and is considering becoming a Catholic "Anglican Use" parish. So, how is that drive for "inclusiveness" working out for mainstream Protestantism?

Interesting Historical Perspective. This

Posted on October 01, 2010
Interesting Historical Perspective. This is a 1941 Harpers magazine article where the author invents a parlor game in speculating about who would be the ones at her posh party that would become Nazis if It Happened Here. Becoming a Nazi is no longer a "live" option in this day and age; it's like becoming a Mugwump...

Hey, Environmental Fanatics.  What

Posted on October 01, 2010
Hey, Environmental Fanatics.  What say we cut back on the caffeine? "With No Pressure, the environmental movement has revealed the snarling, wicked, homicidal misanthropy beneath its cloak of gentle, bunny-hugging righteousness."

Could be good. Trailer for Coen

Posted on September 30, 2010
Could be good. Trailer for Coen Brother's "True Grit" remake.

Post-racial politics in the age

Posted on September 29, 2010
Post-racial politics in the age of Obama. Democrat Loretta Sanchez calls on Hispanics to oppose Van Tranh to protect "our seat."

The Misogynistic Left, or Bob Beckel

Posted on September 28, 2010
The Misogynistic Left, or Bob Beckel is a Human Tooth-ache. In his various appearances on Foxnews, Beckel seems to have two modes - cheap shot against Conservatives and Republicans and complaining that legitimate concerns by Conservatives and Republicans are cheap shots...

The prospect of being hanged can

Posted on September 28, 2010
The prospect of being hanged can concentrate the mind.... ...and elections apparently have a similar effect. West Virginia's Democrat Senator Manchin - facing a tough re-election campaign - calls for a "partial repeal" of Obamacare. Because it's not like they could have worked out the problems with Socialized Medicine before they voted the bill into law or anything...

Archduke Ferdinand found alive

Posted on September 28, 2010
Archduke Ferdinand found alive in Brazil; World War I fought by mistake. Actually, the news is that Germany is making the final payment on its World War I debt this Sunday: The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another...

Another Chesterton moment. Steve

Posted on September 27, 2010
Another Chesterton moment. Steve Sailer quotes Chesterton as follows: Why do people think it intelligent to say, "I can see no difference!" It is nowadays quite a mark of culture to say that one can see no difference between a man and a woman, or a man and an angel, or a man and an animal...

Sometimes life is an episode from

Posted on September 27, 2010
Sometimes life is an episode from Seinfeld... ...like the blind-date I was set up on with a woman who spoke no English. (The only way that one could have been any more ironic is if she had actually been blind - "oh, you meant a 'blind' date.") Or a lady friend of mine whose first date involved taking the guy to a baseball game, where he disappeared when she went to get beer...

Pope Benedict is an "Emmanuel Goldstein

Posted on September 27, 2010
Pope Benedict is an "Emmanuel Goldstein figure, who allows them to get their moralistic rocks off." The Libertarian webzine Spike is disappointed with the recent crop of radicals: Yet just because this campaign springs from neediness rather than political clarity, that doesn?t make it endearing or entertaining...

The Evolution of Islam. This article

Posted on September 26, 2010
The Evolution of Islam. This article compares the extrinsic evidence of credibility for the Koran and the Bible. It notes some disturbing anomalies in the accepted Islamic tradition. The best non-Muslim sources on this period which we have are those provided by the Arabic rock inscriptions scattered all over the Syro-Jordanian deserts and the Peninsula, and especially the Negev desert (Nevo

Americans doing the work that their

Posted on September 26, 2010
Americans doing the work that their Government won't do. Citizens group in Houston unconvers rampant voter fraud. We can't expect the Duopoly to ensure, you know, that the actual voters are actually represented.

The Prophet Gilbert. There has

Posted on September 26, 2010
The Prophet Gilbert. There has been an eruption of interest in G.K. Chesterton on the interent - here,  here and here. Chesterton remains singularly topical today; many of the things he opposed as fringe, crazy ideas are normative today, but still remain crazy...

Metaphor gone wild. President

Posted on September 24, 2010
Metaphor gone wild. President Obama loses it with a stump speech about a car, a ditch, a "Chinese surfer dude" and some damn Republican sipping a damn Slurpee.

Bombshell. Chris Coates testifies

Posted on September 24, 2010
Bombshell. Chris Coates testifies before Congress that the DOJ's Civil Rights Division does discriminate against white voters. Coates' testimony confirms the reports by former DOJ attorneys that the Civil Rights Division dismissed the New Black Panther case based on racial considerations...

Hitchens v. Berlinski "Does Atheism

Posted on September 24, 2010
Hitchens v. Berlinski "Does Atheism Poison Everything?" The video of their debate is here.

Maybe it's because the Pope doesn't

Posted on September 24, 2010
Maybe it's because the Pope doesn't issue Fatwas. Moments of lucidity like this are worth noting: Bernard-Henri Lévy, a well-known atheist associated with what is considered to be the European left, said in an interview that Catholicism is by far the most attacked religion in Europe...

Hawking discovers the Logos. Science

Posted on September 24, 2010
Hawking discovers the Logos. Science Fiction author Mike Flynn explains: Let's assume that he wasn't serious when he said, "from nothing," but that he meant only "from no matter." (This is "nothing" only in the sense of "absence.") So Hawking says that once upon a time the universe [space-time manifold] did not exist...

This is encouraging. Canadian

Posted on September 23, 2010
This is encouraging. Canadian and American Muslims defend Free Speech.

Police and the "Us v. Them" Mentality. This

Posted on September 23, 2010
Police and the "Us v. Them" Mentality. This is an interesting description of the dynamics of dysfunctional law enforcement agencies: It?s also important to keep in mind that in dysfunctional agencies, the worst traits of human nature, those formally and informally suppressed in competent agencies, tend to be manifested at every level...

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