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DaVinci affictionados, and many assorted secular and New-Agey types, assert vigorously that central elements portrayed in Dan Brown's The DaVinci...
Here, in a nutshell, is hubris. Writing about Col McMaster's book on Vietnam, Dereliction of Duty, one Amazon reviewer opines:...
... is looking increasingly like much ado about nothing. I have no dog in this hunt, but it looks increasingly...
The other night I was at Keystone, sitting in a "day lodge" (whatever that's supposed to mean -- more like...
Well this was predictable: Hawaii's gas price controls, imposed last fall when the cost of fuel was hovering around $3...
No doubt you're all aware of the new set of Abu Ghraib photos being given widespread coverage. The Abu Ghraib...
Episcopalian priest Tom Erich: American religion isn't helping. With relentless attacks on homosexuality, conservative evangelicals communicate the message that diversity...
A column by Patrick Hynes says what many observers have noticed: Democrats have some serious decisions to make about the...
Modern "progressive" belief has a somewhat double-minded approach to sexual malleability. On one hand, we are to believe, apparently, that...
Is it my imagination, or since his crack-up, has Al Gore begun to suspiciously resemble Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard?...
Another annoying urban legend: the crusaders clamped chastity belts on their women to keep them faithful (for years, we are...
Courtesy of John Ray, we learn toxoplasmosis, a brain parasite believed to infect slightly less than half the people on...
My girlfriend was fast asleep at 8AM yesterday, Saturday morning -- her morning to get caught up on her sleep...
I am getting sooo tired of hearing everyone repeat the myth of the Children's Crusade. Especially the version where they...
Woman actually calls 911 because she is dissatisfied with her Burger King Western Bacon Cheeseburger. 911: ... this is not...
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I've seen this sort of rhetoric used many times before... The leader of Germany's opposition Greens party said Friday that...
Now here's a telling juxtaposition: Last year Ahmadinejad provoked outcries when he said on separate occasions that Israel should be...
The Guardian's Polly Toynbee states there is absolutely "nothing to be done" about the "mad mullahs of Iran". She degrades...
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La Shawn is all thrilled she got ink in Nation magazine. I guess it's one of those cases where you're...