Monthly Archives: March 2011

Religion Reading List

Posted on March 18, 2011 by David Hume

As someone with minimal religious intuitions and nominal indoctrination it’s been a long hard slog for me to understand religion as a human phenomenon. Books have been important. Not newspapers. And not just the words of believers. I’ve expressed irritation … Continue reading →

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Magical Thinking Watch: Free Government Jobs

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

The New York Times rues Ohio’s pending legislative effort to cut back on public-sector union clout when government jobs are the only decent ones left in an area of southern Ohio: Decades of industrial decline have eroded private-sector jobs here, … Continue reading →

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Liberal de facto apologia for Islam

Posted on March 16, 2011 by David Hume

In the comments to my post “The double standard” many liberals objected to my assertion that much of the Left engages in a situational criticism of religion, whereby conservative Christians bear the full front of the secular critique, where Muslims … Continue reading →

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Old-Time Irreligion

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Bradlaugh

The British philosopher Colin McGinn gives us that old-time irreligion in this essay “Why I Am an Atheist“. I normally can’t take very much of this well-worn atheism-vs.-agnosticism stuff, but McGinn pulls it off very well & I found myself reading … Continue reading →

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Gov. vs. God

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Apparently Wisconsin’s governor Walker is taking on the Almighty Himself. Who knew? “Pastor Dan”, that’s who: Below the fold is the text of a joint press release from Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and Madison Urban Ministry, two Wisconsin religious … Continue reading →

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Arabian Nightmare?

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-Posted on the Corner: It’s a week or two old now, but the warning that runs through this article from the London Spectator is still worth pondering: Here’s an extract: As a hint of what might be in store for … Continue reading →

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Twenty Weeks

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

A hideous story from Nebraska (via NTV): It’s the story you may have seen, but the side you’ve never heard. A grieving Grand Island couple spoke out to NTV News, after newspapers across the country report they wanted an abortion … Continue reading →

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Where’s the radical, America-hating Obama when you need him?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

The right-wing’s portrayal of Obama as a terrorist-sympathising, anti-Western alien intent on destroying the country was patently absurd from the start—which isn’t to say that that portrayal can’t grow absurder still.  Obama’s justified caution in using force unilaterally against Gaddafi … Continue reading →

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Walker and Wisconsin: A coming moment of clarity

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

To anyone who relishes empirical verification, the belated Wisconsin union votes are particularly satisfying–not so much on their substance, however welcome that is, but because they create a very clean test: What really does the public think about government unions?  … Continue reading →

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King’s Domestic Terrorism Hearing: The Left Cooperates

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

Liberals and the left attacked Congressman Peter King’s hearing yesterday on the radicalization of American Muslims and the alleged growing threat of domestic terrorism on the following ground alone: “It is bigoted to focus the hearing exclusively on Muslims.    The … Continue reading →

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