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August 2011

"Refutes"

A popular stereotype holds that journalists tend to be literate, and that the British are more intelligent than their US...

Lights Going Out in Germany

It's increasingly difficult not to suspect that the ultimate vision of "progressivism" is that we should live in caves, die...

Evolution Threatens Christianity

No, really. I read it in the Washington Post, so it must be true. One of the barriers to having...

William Provine on Darwinism

From Darwin Day, 1998: Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly. 1) No gods worth having exist;...

Bay Area Tolerance Alert!

For years, "progressive" Americans have said we should be more like Europe. In more than one way, they're getting their...

Lee Harvey Oswald

I was raised deeply within the "Camelot" myth. How much? One of the first books I owned was an introduction...

Obama is Powerless; Obama is Bush...

NPR, on the fact that markets plunged during and after Obama's speech: To be fair, it's hard to imagine that...

What's the Matter with New York?

A friend of mine likes to mention that Republican-leaning "red states" (formerly called "blue states" before the 2000 election) consume...

Al Gore Loses Control of the Narrative

Here. They pay pseudo-scientists, to pretend to be scientists, to put out the message: "This climate thing, it's nonsense. Man-made...

Money is Power Politicians Don't Control

Ever wonder why left-leaning politicians are so obsessed with money? They want to control money, appropriate money, "keep money out...

Answering "The Question Conservatives Can't Answer"

"Common Dreams" tells its readers this is a question conservatives can't answer: Based on Tax Foundation figures, the richest 1%...

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