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A Horse Is a Horse, Of Course

by Mike Gray The evolution of the horse is indisputable, right? (Note: "10e12" means "10-...

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Are “The Green Religionists” Actually “Children in the Bodies of Adults”?

by Mike Gray Phil Elmore thinks infantile fear motivates the "greenies," based on his own...

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Why Was FDR So Popular?

by Mike Gray   Mark Thornton thinks he knows why President Roosevelt enjoyed populari...

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It’s the Apocalypse — Get Your Metaphors Here!

by Mike Gray The anonymous blogger known as "Zombie" is anticipating that if there is a...

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Fumbling the “Nuclear Football”

by Mike Gray During the 2008 political campaign, child actor Matt Damon expressed misgivi...

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NBC’s ‘Law and Order: Los Angeles’ a Mystery Thus Far

Why NBC canceled Law and Order and immediately ordered a season of Law and Order: Los Ange...

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High-Profile Scientist Loses Job Because of Skepticism About Evolution and Anthropogenic Global Warming

by Mike Gray      It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims...

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“The World Must Be Changed” — A Fable

by Mike Gray What should we do about this messy world we inhabit? Robert Louis Stevenson ...

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ABC’s ‘Detroit 1-8-7’ Tries for Greater Realism, with Mixed Results

Having achieved success with medical dramas on Thursdays and situation comedies on Wednesd...

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Yet Another Blacklisted “Global Warming” Denier Weighs In

by Mike Gray The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for years has been predi...

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Did God Use Evolution to Produce Us?

by Mike Gray A new book, God and Evolution edited by Jay Richards, has just appeared that...

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The Slipping Mask of Ecofascism

These days, explicit arguments in favor of fascism and the ideology of unlimited state pow...

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NBC’s ‘Chase’ Strong on Moral Issues, Crime Show Formulas

Both NBC and Jerry Bruckheimer Productions have hit some hard times in recent years. Bruck...

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Is the Bible “The Most Potent Force for Atheism Ever Conceived”?

by Mike Gray Recently in a comment on this weblog the Bible came under criticism from one...

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TAC Fiction Review, With a Bit of Poetry

This week's Review presents a couple of mysteries from the Victorian Age, inspired by Mike...

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Do Atheists Know More About Religion Than Believers?

by Mike Gray Polls of any kind should never be regarded as unimpeachable, and telephone p...

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When You’re Dying, Should You “Abandon the Principles of a Lifetime”?

by Mike Gray Christopher Hitchens—bald from cancer treatments, speaking between doctor's...

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Does America Need a Counter-Counter-Revolution?

by Mike Gray From its inception, the left has regarded God and religion (especially the Ju...

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Rare Book Find

by Mike Gray The Los Angeles Examiner reports on the discovery of a very uncommon book: W...

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Can There Be Such a Thing As a Truly Just State?

by Mike Gray If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to gover...

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Everything Is Just Fine in Arizona — Not!

by Mike Gray Darrell Ankarlo lives in Arizona, but thanks to federal incompetence he's f...

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The Science Establishment and Its Media Organs Defend “Climategate” Researchers

by Mike Gray What I've said before about Darwinism applies just as much to global warming...

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Are “Justice” and “Social Justice” Synonymous?

by Mike Gray The two terms are about as synonymous as "Karl Marx" and "Groucho Marx." Car...

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Jack the Ripper in the Twenty-Third and a Halfth Century

by Mike Gray "I think we bear left," Kirk said. But the turn they took led them into an al...

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How Twigs Get Bent: Freddy the Pig

By Warren Moore When I was a kid in Nashville, I had free run of the stacks in the local ...

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‘Defenders’ Looks Good for CBS

With The Defenders (Wednesdays, 10 p.m.) CBS follows the pattern of last year's critical s...

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Has the President Changed His Mind About Infanticide?

 by Mike Gray   —probably not. Why should he alienate an important, affluent, and ...

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“A Land of Heart’s Desire” — Von Mises’s Skepticism About Collectivism

 by Mike Gray    In his book Socialism (1922), libertarian economist/philosopher Lu...

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Previously Undiscovered Vivaldi Concerto Found

A previously undiscovered flute concerto by the Italian baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi h...

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Professor Agnostic on Human Value and Lynching as a Moral Wrong

"[B]ehold moral relativism - the reigning moral paradigm in contemporary American academi...

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‘A Voyage Long and Strange’ Offers Good Information, Dubious Conclusions

By Lars Walker I didn't dislike Tony Horwitz' rambling book, A Voyage Long and Strange. H...

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“They Can Save the Banking System, Or They Can Save the Nation … But They Can Only Choose One”

by Mike Gray On WND, Vox Day believes the international bankers, claiming they are indisp...

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Resistance To The “Celestial Dictatorship” Sounds Familiar

by Mike Gray In 2007, Christopher Hitchens wrote in the Washington Post during an on-goin...