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Moderate Muslims are moderate in some things

Posted on May 13, 2015 by David Hume

Bangladesh bloggers: Clear pattern to killings: Since then, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appears to have reached an accommodation with Hefajat. The Islamist group has confined itself to the madrassa premises and the government has put five bloggers … Continue reading →

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George Will on his relaxed atheism

Posted on March 2, 2015 by David Hume
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Jamila Bey at CPAC

Posted on February 28, 2015 by David Hume

Atheist Group Makes CPAC Debut: Jamila Bey is a mom, a business owner, a Pittsburgh native—and a board member of the group American Atheists. She also, apparently, identifies as conservative. After introducing herself to the crowd, Bey used her three-minute … Continue reading →

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George F. Will, American atheist

Posted on October 1, 2014 by David Hume

Several years ago George Will declared that he was an agnostic on the Colbert Report. Last week he pulled no punches: RCR: Do you believe in God? GW: No. I’m an atheist. An agnostic is someone who is not sure; … Continue reading →

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Conservatives respect atheists less

Posted on August 6, 2014 by David Hume

This clip by S. E. Cupp is making the rounds. I often find Cupp to be glib, so it’s no surprise that I disagree with many of the details of what she is saying. In particular it struck me as … Continue reading →

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The culture of science is the culture of the Left

Posted on August 6, 2014 by David Hume

Robert Tracinski, in What Atheists Have To Offer The Right‘s, kindly points to this website. He also goes on to assert: That leads me to what atheists have to offer to this agenda. One of the problems with citing a … Continue reading →

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What is Europe’s anti-Semitism problem about?

Posted on August 4, 2014 by David Hume

In Slate, Europe Has a Serious Anti-Semitism Problem, and It’s Not All About Israel: A recent Anti-Defamation League survey found that 24 percent of the French population and 21 percent of the German population harbor some anti-Semitic attitudes. A recent study of anti-Semitic … Continue reading →

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Leftist blasphemies

Posted on April 17, 2014 by David Hume

Oberlin has had to walk back its policies about “trigger warnings.” An op-ed defending the old policy highlights what’s really going on here: Trigger warnings exist in order to warn readers about sensitive subjects, like sexual violence or war, that … Continue reading →

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The end of liberal universalism

Posted on April 15, 2014 by David Hume

Ross Douthat nails it in his most recent column, Diversity and Dishonesty: It would be a far, far better thing if Harvard and Brandeis and Mozilla would simply say, explicitly, that they are as ideologically progressive as Notre Dame is … Continue reading →

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Don’t cancel Colbert, Asian Americans should accept a double standard in regards to sensitivity

Posted on March 30, 2014 by David Hume

So apparently there’s a big controversy now about some things that Comedy Central tweeted out in the voice of Stephen Colbert’s character on his show on that network. As it is the age of Twitter activism, there is now a … Continue reading →

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