Monthly Archives: February 2012

Hilarious statement of the week

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Heather Mac Donald

According to the New York Times, many states are delaying creating the health insurance exchanges mandated by Obamacare, waiting for the outcome of the constitutional challenge to the law.  In the meantime, we get such delusional claims about the act … Continue reading →

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Democrats: Taxes don’t hurt growth, except when I say they do

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Heather Mac Donald

New York governor Andrew Cuomo is giving $26 million in tax breaks to PepsiCo and a German dairy company in reward for their promise to open a joint yogurt factory in the western part of New York.  The utter injustice … Continue reading →

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Respecting the law of the land

Posted on February 25, 2012 by David Hume

The story about a Pennsylvania atheist activist who dressed up like a “Muhammad Zombie” has been covered mostly by atheist activists and conservative publications. What seems to have happened is that the victim was dressed up as “Muhammad Zombie” during … Continue reading →

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Against Agape (Restaurants) and All That

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in the Spectator, A.N. Wilson, a former atheist, responds to de Botton: De Botton has little chance of success — either in starting a chain of Agape restaurants, or in persuading bigots on either side of this argument. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

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Agape at Agape

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in the weekend’s Wall Street Journal, cuddly atheist Alain de Botton offers up a vision of hell with his proposal for a series of atheist “Agape” restaurants (God help us) at which secular folk could come to share in … Continue reading →

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Affirmative action thought control

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Heather Mac Donald

Black students and some professors at Duke University are up in arms over a study that shows that black students drop out of science majors disproportionally, behavior that is wholly explained by their status as the beneficiary of racial preferences, as … Continue reading →

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Tests

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via CBS: [Santorum] lambasted the president’s health care law requiring insurance policies to include free prenatal testing, “because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks … Continue reading →

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“Gone from the world of Christianity as I see it…”

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Say what you will about Santorum, it’s difficult to argue that he is a man who succumbs to the vapid ecumenicism that dominates so much of the discourse we hear these days from the, uh, “faith community”. Here he is … Continue reading →

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The “Bioethics” Fraud

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Instapundit: “It’s always in bioethicists’ professional interest to suggest that a new technology raises troubling moral issues that require deep (funded) thought and extensive (lucrative) conferences.” Indeed.

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Helping Obama

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The polling data relied upon for this Washington Post article is from a Democratic polling firm, but the results should come as no great surprise: The firm’s poll finds that one of the most important factors powering Obama’s gains against … Continue reading →

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