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February 2005

Intelligent Design as Pseudoscience

A few thoughts this morning on "intelligent design" -- not something I normally venture into discussing in this space. Intelligent...

Lost People

The number of people I encounter who are coming uncoupled from reality is alarming me. I have no idea if...

Product Review: iRock FM Transmitter

I'd started MP3-ifying my CD collection back in the 90s, before the MP3 craze really took off. So when I...

Capitalism is the most environmentally friendly economic system?

Or: "How to deceive about an important subject..." The left cracks me up. I remain open-minded, but when I read...

Social Studies: Your Tax Dollar at Work

Students write letters to soldiers all the time. Even if you don't agree with this particular conflict, you can at...

Giving Credit Where Due: Rocketman Apology

We all do stupid stuff. Sometimes we lose our cool. It's not right: Just because we all screw up doesn't...

"I Didn't Mean to Hurt You"

"How could you??" she screamed, crying and quaking with rage. "How could you??!?" She threw the pictures down on the...

What's Wrong with Anti-Trust Laws?

As a recovering "centrist" who still harbors definite left-leaning tendencies, one of the more "leftist" ideas I believe in is...

Conspiracies Within Conspiracies

History repeats. Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, regarding Rathergate: Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened:...

Noam Chomsky and the Liberal Tissues of Lies

At one time, I admired Noam Chomsky. I had absorbed this attitude, unquestioningly, through my college education. I at first...

Quixtar/Amway and God: Open Forum

One of the odd things about Quixtar is the way it attempts to conscript religion or religous arguments into selling...

Speech is Censorship!

Regarding Eason Jordan, Baldilocks quips, pithily: Observe as a new meme is born: the right-wing blogger as First Amendment antagonist....

"Gays Can't Marry"

Yeah, right. USA Today on what can be learned from Vermont's gay marriage experiment: Nearly 40% of [homosexual] civil-union couples...

Cluessless About Marriage

One of the arguments brought to bear regarding gay marriage is that marriage a private affair. Glenn Reynolds today expressed...

Pick Your Ethnicity!

Leftists are so weird. Tonight I heard a woman claim that it wasn't any of our business whether Ward Churchill...

Must! Find! Gay! Gene!

The BBC reports a new studies proves that homosexuality is a genetic trait residing in a combination of genes! Or does it?

"Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor"

We are often told about some policy "widening the gap between rich and poor." We are told this is evidence...

Wacky Packs Are Back

Indulge me while I take a somewhat twisted walk down memory lane...

Why Politics Works the Way It Does

A grand unified theory of political behavior which answers a nagging question that's been bothering me lately...

The "Pentagon Strike" Video & "9-11 Research"

Recently someone mailed me a link to a Flash presentation called "Pentagon Strike" which purported to show that no 757 ever hit the Pentagon...

Kofi Annan and Rwanda

Cliff Kincaid: Major General Romeo Dallaire, the commander of several thousand U.N. troops in Rwanda, sent a fax to Kofi...

Ward Churchill: Big Money in Leftism!

You won't believe how much Ward Churchill -- who just called the 9/11 victims 'little Eichmanns' -- makes each year. Or maybe you will.

Liberal Logic Loop

I've noticed this recurring pattern when debating with liberals: Liberal: Your policies are evil. Conservative: No, actually, yours hurt people....

Those Anti-Eco Christians: The Virus Spreads

I thought about writing about this last week, but hoped the whole thing would go away. I hoped common sense...

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