Monthly Archives: January 2010

Don’t be an infidel?

Interesting possibility that Google is engaging in self-censorship in regards to Islam. If true the motive is likely more profit that fear (via Abhi).

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On signals & design

Somehow SR‘s email address was added to Newsmax’s mailing list for ad buys. The pitch is that one will reach affluent readers. But they undermine their message by formatting their HTML emails in a garish 1997 Frontpage-generated style. I thought … Continue reading

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We are a social animal

Occasionally we get emails like this: Up until now I thought I was the rarest of all ducks. A conservative atheist. I read Heather MacDonald’s piece in the Wall Street Journal today and was pleased to find I am not … Continue reading

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After-the-fact pseudo-wise man watch

The Sunday talk shows overflowed with specious explanations for the underwear bomber incident: Other Republicans were more measured. On CNN, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, praised Obama’s reaction to the Flight 253 attack. … Continue reading

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Obama’s post 12/25 dilemma

 It’s going to be amusing to see President Obama try to triangulate between the public outcry for tougher terror screening policies in the wake of the 12/25 attempt and his natural allies on the civil libertarian left.  Senator Dianne Feinstein … Continue reading

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Nicholas Wade & Razib Khan on bloggingheads.tv

Here. Or embedded: We talk about The Faith Instinct.

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