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"Spiritual but not religious." A

Posted on March 02, 2011
"Spiritual but not religious." A phrase that gives me a toothache. Patrick O'Hannigan on "Does God Hate Religion?" Obviously the problem, when there is one, lies not in religion as such but in the unconverted hearts of people who make religious observance a burden for others...

Toleration is not enough. You.

Posted on March 01, 2011
Toleration is not enough. You. Must. Approve.  You. Must. Submit. In England, a Pentecostal family is told that they can be foster parents because they cannot in good conscience teach their charges that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle. The Pentecostal Christians, who have been carers since 1992, had applied to Derby City Council in 2007 to restart fostering after a break...

Civility Watch. Chris Matthews

Posted on February 28, 2011
Civility Watch. Chris Matthews expands on his disturbing misogynistic fantasy objectification of female politicians with a clip from "Funny or Die." Here's what Matthews showed: And here's the original source: Sarah Palin Media Addict from Gina Gershon

Civility Watch/Liberal Fascism

Posted on February 28, 2011
Civility Watch/Liberal Fascism Watch. FoxNews reporter describes hate of protestors against him: you?ve been a viewer of the Fox News Channel over the past week and a half and have paid attention to its coverage of the standoff between Wisconsin Republican Gov...

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Civility Watch. Pro-choicer reportedly

Posted on February 28, 2011
Civility Watch. Pro-choicer reportedly arrested for making threats against pro-lifers.

Are we there yet? Ed Driscoll

Posted on February 28, 2011
Are we there yet? Ed Driscoll on "A World Without America?"

Formerly stable one-party state

Posted on February 28, 2011
Formerly stable one-party state crumbles. Ireland's Fianna Fail, which has been in control of Irish government for 61 of the last 79 years, has been swept from office by voters angry with Ireland's Euro-controlled crash: When disaster struck, the government bet the country on its toxic banks...

Beware the Christian Extremist... ...they

Posted on February 27, 2011
Beware the Christian Extremist... ...they might just protect your freedom of conscience. Mike Huckabee thinks Islam is wrong and evidently the chattering classes think this is a serious issue. The Christians of Constantinople cannot use one of the ancient churches of Christendom, because Islamic rulers will not allow it, but Mike Huckabee said something harsh about Islam so he must be rebuked

One of the things you know that

Posted on February 25, 2011
One of the things you know that is wrong .... ...is the distance of the Earth from the Moon.

Truth v. Ideology. Billboards

Posted on February 25, 2011
Truth v. Ideology. Billboards highlighting the sad truth that 60% of African-American pregnancies end in abortion in New York City cannot be posted because that would conflict with the provisions in the social compact that teaches (a) that African-Americans are to be protected from having to discuss dysfunctions in their community and (b) that Americans are to be protected from having to discuss

Does God love Lucifer?

Posted on February 24, 2011

An Autistic Child and an Answered

Posted on February 24, 2011
An Autistic Child and an Answered Prayer. This post on actor Joe Mantegna's perspective on how his prayer was answered - in a circumstance that might lead other people to bitterness - is worth reading.

Returning to a fact-based reality. Outside

Posted on February 24, 2011
Returning to a fact-based reality. Outside of three areas, simply proclaiming oneself to be something doesn't generally entitle one to be treated by the world as that thing.  Hence, proclaiming oneself to be a Supreme Court justice, a reporter for the New York Times or a player for the Green Bay Packers doesn't make one a Supreme Court justice, a reporter for the Gray Lady, or a part of the

Not News - the Faux Civility Shuffle The

Posted on February 24, 2011
Not News - the Faux Civility Shuffle The Media was on spurious claims of Tea Party links to violence like "white on rice" but can't find the energy to report on real instances of union violence: Last month after the shootings in Arizona where several people were murdered and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was severely injured there was a lot of talk about civility in politics...

The obvious answer is that alcohol

Posted on February 24, 2011
The obvious answer is that alcohol kills off stupid brain cells. According to evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, "more intelligent people are more likely to binge drink and get drunk (Intelligent people are more likely to do stupid things.)"  According to Kanazawa, this phenomenon is consistent with an evolutionary Hypothesis of human behavior:  Evolutionarily novel entities that more

Another reason to defund PBS. Tavis

Posted on February 24, 2011
Another reason to defund PBS. Tavis Smiley argues to former Muslim Hirsan Ali that there are more Christians blowing themselves up than Muslims.  He offers Colombine as an example and eventually limits it to "this country.  Here's the link to the PBS site...

Science proves that while a majority

Posted on February 24, 2011
Science proves that while a majority of people think that they are "above average," in fact, at least half are below average. Modern women not as shapely as they like to think  -  Almost half of British women mistakenly believe their figures match the ideal body shape desired by men...

"Rumsfield flummoxes Mitchell." Whitehouse

Posted on February 23, 2011
"Rumsfield flummoxes Mitchell." Whitehouse Dossier observes: Just thought you all might want to take a look at this interview of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by Andrea Mitchell. Rumsfeld is promoting his new book, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, a major portion of which deals with his time in the Bush administration...

Apparently, if you're not married

Posted on February 23, 2011
Apparently, if you're not married ... ...it really is you, according to Tracy McMillan at Slate Magazine. Via Wintery Knight. McMillan's diagnosis rings true to someone sitting on the opposite bench: 1. You're a Bitch. Here's what I mean by bitch...

It looks like "Idiocracy" has already

Posted on February 23, 2011
It looks like "Idiocracy" has already arrived. It's amazing the things that people will do to wreck their lives, and the statements they'll make after the fact. For example, this article about a man who got "frisky" with his co-worker's water bottle is filled with unintentional comedic gems...

America silent on execution of

Posted on February 21, 2011
America silent on execution of Muslim Christian. According to NRO: Newspapers in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe have reported the story, but with, the exception of the Wall Street Journal and, of course, NRO, American outlets have not found it worthy of attention...

Sci-Fi Obsession. I didn't know

Posted on February 21, 2011
Sci-Fi Obsession. I didn't know that the rather mediocre John Cusack movie, "The Martian Child," was based on David Gerrold's autobiographical story about his adoption of his son. What happens when a science fiction writer adopts a little boy who says he's from Mars? Prepare to be enchanted...

Truth versus Ideology. Here is

Posted on February 21, 2011
Truth versus Ideology. Here is another example of how ideology creates a dangerous congitive dissonance.  The Ft. Hood shooting has finally been the subject of a careful after-action analysis ? a study that DOD should have done but didn?t. The analysis was done instead in a bipartisan report by Senators Lieberman and Collins, who lead the Homeland Security committee...

Practicing Christians do not divorce

Posted on February 20, 2011
Practicing Christians do not divorce at the same rate as society. According to the Baptist Press: Christians divorce at roughly the same rate as the world!" It's one of the most quoted stats by Christian leaders today. And it's perhaps one of the most inaccurate...

Ordained by the Daily Journal. The

Posted on February 20, 2011
Ordained by the Daily Journal. The Daily Journal is the California legal newspaper of record.  Like a lot of mainstream newspapers it can't help but inject its ideology into cutesy profiles, like this one: Deputy DA is Woman Priest By Pat Broderick SAN DIEGO - Jane Via, garbed in vivid red and white vestments, stood before her congregation in San Diego on a recent Sunday, preaching about

Hollywood - where all belief systems

Posted on February 19, 2011
Hollywood - where all belief systems are equally superior to Christianity. This Big Hollywood article describes the weird knee-jerk attitude of Hollywood, which used digitial technology to eliminate the title of one book from various scenes in a movie...

Unreliable Confessions - The Fallible

Posted on February 19, 2011
Unreliable Confessions - The Fallible Criminal Justice System. Io-9 points out this fascinating and disturbing factoid: Prisoner advocacy group The Innocence Project has used DNA to overturn the wrongful convictions of 266 people since 1989. In twenty-five percent of those cases, the DNA exoneration was an extreme surprise - not because the people had been convicted, but because they had

Greg Koukl answers a pro-abortion

Posted on February 19, 2011
Greg Koukl answers a pro-abortion caller's question. [Via Wintery Knight.] This is a nice demonstration of the conversational tactics that Greg Koukl outlines in his book "Tactics."   The issue - posed by a teacher - is "how can Koukl speak out against abortion unless he adopts every child who would be aborted...

"We are witnessing the logical

Posted on February 18, 2011
"We are witnessing the logical conclusion of the Democratic Party's philosophy, and it is this:Your tax dollars exist to make public sector unions happy." Matt Welch at Reason Magazine writes: Just think?there once was a time (for more than a century, actually), when the president of the United States thought it too imperious to deliver the State of the Union via a speech to a joint session of

Interesting stand on principle. You

Posted on February 18, 2011
Interesting stand on principle. You don't see people take stands on principle like this. Also, it does seem rather late in the day for chivalry not to bend before the fungibility of the sexes. I'm not sure it was necessarily the right decision, but you have to admire someone who will pay the price for his beliefs...

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