My current understanding is that the current financial meltdown had three key factors, all of which had their origins in...
I was speaking with a friend yesterday morning about "Rabbit-Proof Fence" -- a film about the "stolen generation" -- Australian...
In "My Political Coke vs Pepsi Taste Test", I mentioned that I'd recently stumbled into a conversation (between friends with...
As both of my regular readers are aware, many of my friends and associates have a decidedly liberal bent. You're...
May I be blunt? Sam Harris is an obtuse buffoon who, worse still, is convinced otherwise. Pardon me for a...
Am I really writing about this? Gee, just what you need: another stupid right-wing blog talking about the same thing...
Anthony Flew, the prominent philosopher and former atheist who created the "weak atheism"/"strong atheism" distinction, has recently taken Dawkins to...
I've often wondered why vegetarianism frequently (though certainly not always), in the West at least, seems to correlate with a...
When I want real wisdom about the world, I turn to Hollywood. Actors are renowned their wisdom and political understanding....
When is secession bad? While Obama's supporters and the press are trying to link Todd Palin's membership in AIP (Alaksa...
Wasn't it a truism that a woman had a right to privacy, especially on reproductive matters? This strain of argument...
Via The Global Sociology Blog, yet another example of multiculturalism gone wild: The Australian version of the Daring Book for...
One of Eugene Volokh's readers asks if praying for someone to die should be prosecuted as attempted murder: Some Christian...
I've got nothing against any emotion. I'm personally not allowed to hate my neighbor but that doesn't mean I can't...
Strategy Page: Hamas has an image problem, and it's getting worse. It's gotten so bad that the 30 year old...
The Wall Street Journal carries Saakashvili's testimony that the Russia was amassing at their border well before the invasion: "I...