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August 2006

Omeed Popal: Not a Terrorist (In My Opinion)

Recently, after a fight with his mother, apparently, Omeed Popal got into his parents' SUV, drove away from his mother...

The Death of Human Rights Watch

From the Right Coast: I've met one senior Human Rights Watch officer at several symposia in New York over the...

E.J. Dionne, Jr, and the 'Liberal' Myth

A Washington Post op-ed: Why are liberals the way liberals are? What is it about the L-word that has become...

Revisiting the Pianka/Ebola Flap

Background This spring, the blogosphere (and eventually the mainstream media) erupted in outrage over reports that one Dr. Eric Pianka,...

Christianity: Authoritarian?

There has been considerable attention paid lately to the idea that Christianity is "authoritarian". There are two ways to approach...

Malaysia's Religious Reeducation Camps

Malyasia, I am told, is an example of a moderate Islamic nation. So imagine my surprise when I learned about...

Heroin and Methadone Addiction

"Dalrymple", a British prison physician, on heroin: Perhaps I can best describe what I think most people believe about opiate...

Christian Environmentalism: The Jungle and the Garden

Christians, in my experience, generally care about the environment. Like everyone, we want clean water and air. Fewer of us...

The Ant Bully: Kommunism for Kidz!

Question: What's produced by Tom Hanks (among others), directed by John Davis (Jimmy Neutron), features Julia Roberts, Nicholas Cage, Meryl...

The Environment, Christianity, and Secularism

Today's news carries stories of terrorist plots, further inconvenience to travellers, cell phones and explosives, dead children, media photo-fakery, and...

The Founding Fathers: Mostly Atheists and Deists

Increasingly, we live in an upside-down world: much of what we believe is the exact opposite of the truth. I'm...

The Qana Building Collapse

This was originally posted on Sunday, but I'm updating the time as I add more links at the bottom. A...

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