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March 2006

Monitoring the Canary in the Coal Mine

You know, just when I'm having a nice week I have to hear about ugly stuff like this -- in...

"Structural Violence"

In my experience, the left lies incessantly: sometimes it seems to me that almost every word out of their mouth...

Some Thoughts on Immigration

One simple question: Why do Mexicans want to come to the USA? The answer's obvious -- isn't it? Or is...

Pro-Science Pro-Tester

Here is an article, on Social Affairs Unit, on 16-year-old British pro-animal-testing activist Laurie Pycroft. On his blog, he lists...

Conservatives are Miserable People?

It's funny what you can "prove" in the "soft" sciences, like psychology: What the authors found was that Berkeley children...

New Sidebar Blog Links

Over at Iowa Geek (great motto: "The State is not a substitute for personal responsibility"), Doug and Jody are pregnant...

Lying About Abstinence in Timken, Ohio

I had an interesting discussion with a friend recently. She comes from the left end of the spectrum, and I...

Iraqi War Retrospective

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting post up in which he looks back on how deeply, deeply wrong most anti-war arguments...

Ban that Bible!

I have great difficulty getting in the head of school officials who issue rules like this: A principal at Karns...

Sane and Insane Arguments Regarding Iraq

Elsewhere, I've written that there are both good and bad reasons to oppose the war against Iraq. Though I support...

More DaVinci Cognitive Confusion

One of the bizarrest things about the whole DaVinci phenomenon is peoples' double-mindedness about the whole thing. In response to...

Jimmy Carter and Robert Mugabe

I didn't know this: When voters in Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, elected a black Methodist bishop, Abel Muzorewa, the Carter...

Evolution as Pseudoscience

As to the specific arguments of Intelligent Design, I am somewhat the agnostic. But, as I mention here, I find...

Is Abortion Moral?

People seem to think that the burden of proof is on those who think life begins at conception to show...

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