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February 2007

"Lost Tomb of Jesus" Coverage

Well, it's that time again: the orthodox-Jesus-is-dead season. This seems to happen several times a year. The traditional Christian view...

Durham Wonderland's Dissent

KC Johnson, "a 38-year-old bowtie-wearing Brooklyn College professor", who operates the "Durham Wonderland" blog, which covers the Duke (non-)rape case:...

Kosovo: Did We Back the Wrong Side?

First, let me state that I was in favor of what we -- the US, led by Command-in-Chief, President Bill...

North Korean Abductions

Here in the US, we debate the problem of people entering our country illegally. Emigration to North Korea happens rarely,...

Australian State Dictates Lightbulb Choices

LA Times: Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said today that Australia would gradually ban incandescent lightbulbs and require the use of...

A Good Church

One of the better churches I've attended in my life -- probably the best, frankly -- is Grace Church in...

Enemies

In the conservative world, the oft-repeated belief is that liberals hate and fear us more than Islamic terrorists. After a...

Daily Kos and the Amanda Marcotte Flap

This isn't the kind of thing I normally pay much attention to here, and never planned to write about it:...

Cloning: Great for Humans! Evil for Animals!

Today I received a petition which assured me that cloning animals was a "risky, unnecessary and cruel technology." Well, what...

The Treaty of Tripoli

There are three ways in which a government can be influenced by some religion. The first is when the rules...

"Capitalism"

The stunning thing is, "the right" is actually a creation of "the left." Think of a Democrat you know. Imagine...

Peter Jennings on the Power of the Press

Hitchens, writing about the first Gulf War: I vividly remember saying to the late Peter Jennings, as we journeyed toward...

Elbonian Rhapsody

Back in the early 1990s, I was working for a medium-sized software firm who had decided to try transferring its...

Male Prostitute Warmly Greeted by New Life

This is precisely the kind of behavior one would wish from a group of people who know their own sin,...

Wikipedia: Accurate?

There are a number of things which I'd find tremendously amusing, but which my ethics will not allow me to...

God Hates Inequality?

Somewhere back in time, I had the suspicion that I was somehow misunderstanding most the bible's political implications. Since a...

Minimum Wage: How to Make the Poor Poorer

"Economics Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and Judge Richard Posner", via Jonathan Adler over at Volokh: An increase in the minimum...

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