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June 2011

Indian Gender Reassignment Surgery?

Via Althouse: "Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for...

"LGBT Rights" as War Against Religion

... or, at least the backward kinds, which refuse to obey each new cultural dictate. I've stated it for a...

Of Primates and Shakespeare

Gerald Shroeder: Very occasionally monkeys hammering away at typewriters will type out one of Shakespeare's sonnets. Not true, not in...

Hillary Questions Republicans' Patriotism

This is hilarious: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is questioning the priorities of lawmakers criticizing the U.S. intervention...

Jonathan Dudley: Christian Faith Requires Accepting Evolution?

What a mess. No wonder the public — the leftward-leaning public, anyway — is so confused about the evolution /...

WSJ Doesn't Get Basic Economics

Conservatives have a hard time getting their message out: their opponents have a virtual lock on the universities and schools,...

Reviewing Christopher Hitchens Reviewing David Mamet

Random Observations: Your one-stop-shop for metareviews! Christopher Hitchens can be fun to read, but he's seldom deep. He excels at...

Learning from Deepak Chopra

One of the things which strikes me as odd, lately, is the tremendous disconnect between many of things that "spiritual...

Fareed Zarakia: Idiot

I was going to label this "Fareed Zakaria, Economic Idiot", but, upon reflection, I realized that description was a tad...

Joseph McCabe: Ex-Priest, "Rationalist"

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite...

Aliens Among Us and "Extraordinary Claims"

Via Instapundit, here's a nice essay which states many of my evidence-based objections against belief in contact from extraterrestrial aliens...

LA Times' Palin Obsession: Now Part of UK Health Coverage!

Let's say you were asked to report on Britain's National Health System (NHS)... what facts do you think would salient...

American Thinker: California: The Sanctuary State

"The line between legal and illegal immigrants is being erased in California with new legislation." ... Or so this article...

DailyKos "Explains" Conservative Economics

It's not enough to keep people in the dark ... you have to give them the impression that they're actually...

How to Criticize Intelligent Design

In his last comment, Ryan said, of PZ Meyers: He could have made a dramatically stronger argument without even having...

Intelligent Design Drives Critics Insane

Wow. PZ Meyers is considered one of the top critics of intelligent design. And he apparently hasn't a clue what...

Not Gay Enough for Softball

Seattle Times: A gay softball organization can keep its rule limiting the number of heterosexual players on each team, but...

CNN Amateurish; Obsessed with Palin

I don't watch TV much. Last night, on a return flight from Washington DC, I caught some CNN on the...

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