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Redefining Marriage. From Mercator: Proponents

Posted on August 01, 2010
Redefining Marriage. From Mercator: Proponents of ?marriage equality? sing their refrain over and over: ?Our relationships are just the same as yours.? Not even close. While just 7 per cent of Americans believe that adultery (sexual infidelity by married, heterosexual partners) is morally acceptable, Dr Hoff?s report emphasizes that nearly 50 per cent of gays in committed relationships

Discrimination in America. Professor

Posted on July 31, 2010
Discrimination in America. Professor Timothy Larsen offers a story that brought back some memories: John had been a straight-A student until he enrolled in English writing. The assignment was an ?opinion? piece and the required theme was ?traditional marriage...

Class War. One aspect of the "social

Posted on July 31, 2010
Class War. One aspect of the "social contract" was that while government workers had job security, they wouldn't make as much as private sector workers.  Not surprisingly, given who is in control, over the years we've seen that element of the social contract degrade with a wealth transfer from the private sector to the government...

Edifying Thought for the Day. Who

Posted on July 31, 2010
Edifying Thought for the Day. Who knew that there were "100 Hot Women from New Jersey"? Lisa Edelstein - aka Dr. Lisa Cuddy from House (and a former cheerleader for Donald Trump's New Jersey Generals) - clocks in at #7.

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Apologetics and Debate. Via Apologetics

Posted on July 30, 2010
Apologetics and Debate. Via Apologetics 315, I listened to this debate between Walter Martin and Van Hale on "Is Mormonism Christian?" I thought that the Mormon apologist, Van Hale, came out the better on style with his calm approach in the face of a tough audience...

We're in the best of hands. With

Posted on July 30, 2010
We're in the best of hands. With this kind of calm, reasoned logic, it is no wonder why the economy is circling the bowl. Daniel Foster at NRO points out: How many times have you found yourself thinking: ?You know, I used to disagree with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D...

Novelist Anne Rice says that Episcopalians

Posted on July 29, 2010
Novelist Anne Rice says that Episcopalians are not Christian! Well, actually she announces that she is leaving Christianity - but not Christ - with this statement: For those who care, and I understand if you don?t: Today I quit being a Christian. I?m out...

Are we living inside a Black Hole? This

Posted on July 29, 2010
Are we living inside a Black Hole? This is about science, not the economy. Some scientists are speculating that every Black Hole contains a universe. When the density of matter reaches gargantuan proportions (more than about 1050 kilograms per cubic metre) inside a black hole, torsion manifests itself as a force that counters gravity...

Separate but equal. John McWhorter

Posted on July 29, 2010
Separate but equal. John McWhorter offers a solution to the problem of African-American culture stigmatizing academic achievement as "acting white" - segregated schools: The response to my Bloggingheads conversation with Stanford Law's Richard Thompson Ford on the ''acting white'' issue is making me feel old...

Doctor Who. My oldest daughter

Posted on July 28, 2010
Doctor Who. My oldest daughter has become a Doctor Who fan.  So, here is every Doctor Who theme from the shows inception in 1963.

Backstory. Here is an article

Posted on July 27, 2010
Backstory. Here is an article on the background of Kenneth Howell, the University of Illinois professor fired - or put on leave - for daring to teach Natural Law to an offended student. Interesting biography.  The callow student could learn a lot from this man.

Great moments in deep thought. The

Posted on July 27, 2010
Great moments in deep thought. The audience reaction is amazingly refreshing. Via Mark Shea.

Religious Rorschach Test. Your

Posted on July 27, 2010
Religious Rorschach Test. Your sense of the sacred - or where you come from doctrinally - probably determines your reaction to this story on the Canadian Anglican priestess who gave a Communion wafer to a new parishioner's dog. Reverend Marguerite Rea of St Peter's Anglican Church, in Toronto, received complaints from Christians all over Canada after she fed communion bread to a German Shepherd

"Sharia in New Jersey: Muslim husband

Posted on July 25, 2010
"Sharia in New Jersey: Muslim husband rapes wife, judge sees no sexual assault because Islam forbids wives to refuse sex" Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch reports that a New Jersey judge ruled that a Muslim man could not be convicted of raping his wife - who had filed for divorce - because of the man's Muslim beliefs that his wife could never refuse his sexual advances...

District Court Judge Scoffs at

Posted on July 25, 2010
District Court Judge Scoffs at Obama Administration's Preemption Argument... ....against the Arizona "check immigration status" law. According to Ed Morrissey relaying information from the Washington Post: Why can't Arizona be as inhospitable as they wish to people who have entered or remained in the United States?" U...

Welcome to the New Europe: More

Posted on July 23, 2010
Welcome to the New Europe: More Muslim Riots in France. According to Pajama Media: You probably didn?t hear about it, but Muslim youths rioted in Grenoble, France, on July 16, sparking some of the worst instability the country has faced since the 2005 riots...

Tackiness and the MSM. From scratching

Posted on July 23, 2010
Tackiness and the MSM. From scratching his face with his middle finger during a speech while mentioning Hillary Clinton to dressing down the Supreme Court during the State of the Nation, Obama has shown himself to be a classless thug.  Obama pulled the same "use the opportunity to embarass someone who couldn't walk out or respond during a speech" technique against Congressman Pete Hoekstra.

Dissension in the Land of Hope

Posted on July 23, 2010
Dissension in the Land of Hope and Change. Leftwing bloggers may sit this election out: It appears if the progressive-leftist activists of the Netroots have their way, what happens in Vegas is not going to stay in Vegas. They want it to play out at ballot boxes across the country in November, resulting in the Democrats losing seats in Congress...

The quickest way to get rid of

Posted on July 22, 2010
The quickest way to get rid of bad laws is to enforce them... ...and the quickest way to get rid of the way that liberals use race as blanket smear is to turn it around on them. I don't think that Shirley Sherrod should necessarily have been fired for her story about being a racist twenty years ago, but I don't think that Trent Lott deserved to be pilloried for his smarmy tribute to the elderly

The "T-shirt test." Vox Day recommends

Posted on July 22, 2010
The "T-shirt test." Vox Day recommends this system for determining a woman's sexual experience: But how can a man tell if a woman is clever enough to avoid claiming complete inexperience and doesn't give it away by breaking out bedroom gymnastics worthy of Cirque du Soleil? It's quite easy if you happen to have access to her clothing drawer...

Manifesto! This essay by Angelo

Posted on July 22, 2010
Manifesto! This essay by Angelo Codevilla offers an rich analysis of why America doesn't work.

Separation of the Press and the

Posted on July 18, 2010
Separation of the Press and the State. Columbia University's President Lee Bollinger argues for government subsidies for the old media so the United States can stay competitive with Communist China and Al-Jazeera. We should think about American journalism as a mixed system, where the mission is to get the balance right...

The History Channel.... ....a

Posted on July 17, 2010
The History Channel.... ....a never-ending source of cliche story-lines: Probably the worst part was the ending. The British/German story arc gets boring, so they tie it up quickly, have the villain kill himself (on Walpurgisnacht of all days, not exactly subtle) and then totally switch gears to a battle between the Americans and the Japanese in the Pacific...

In the alternate universe, where

Posted on July 15, 2010
In the alternate universe, where Spock has a goatee, pale is cool. As a melanin-impaired redhead, I find this Indian ad touting the efficacy of a skin-whitening cream to be hilarious: Skin-whitening creams for men and women have proved popular in India...

Advice for Obama... ...from Victor

Posted on July 15, 2010
Advice for Obama... ...from Victor Davis Hanson: 1) Impose a moratorium on all the racial talk. After the beer summit, the ?stupidly,? the ?stereotyping,? the ?cowards,? the Van Jones rants, the ?wise Latina,? the suing Arizona, the exempting the Black Panthers, the al-Qaeda-as-racists (e...

Huh?  PCUSA agrees to ordain active

Posted on July 14, 2010
Huh?  PCUSA agrees to ordain active homosexuals but declines to ordain homosexual marriages. And the principle behind this would be what?  This is "perspicacious" in Scripture how? Hours after giving their blessing to ordaining noncelibate gays and lesbians, leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U...

Corrupt Science. An AGW proponent

Posted on July 14, 2010
Corrupt Science. An AGW proponent castigates the corruption he finds in the post-Climategate inquiries. The Penn State inquiry exonerating Michael Mann -- the paleoclimatologist who came up with "the hockey stick" -- would be difficult to parody. Three of four allegations are dismissed out of hand at the outset: the inquiry announces that, for "lack of credible evidence", it will not even

Father Barron: Pray for Christopher

Posted on July 14, 2010
Father Barron: Pray for Christopher Hitchens. From CNN blogs: But what struck me with particular power as I surveyed the Catholic media was that the vast, vast majority of Catholics reported Hitchens? disease and then, with transparent sincerity, urged people to pray for him...

Terms that a liberal can understand

Posted on July 14, 2010
Terms that a liberal can understand - Al Qaeda is evil because it's racist... ...not because it is committed to killing Americans. According to Jake Tapper, Obama is trying out a new angle on terrorism: In an interview earlier today with the South African Broadcasting Corporation to air in a few hours, President Obama disparaged al Qaeda and affiliated groups' willingness to kill Africans in a

Bad Voters! Liberal radio talk

Posted on July 14, 2010
Bad Voters! Liberal radio talk show host, Bill Press, blames the voters for Obama's bad poll numbers: I think this says more about the American people than it does about President Obama. I think it just shows once again that the American people are spoiled...

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