Category Archives: politics

Gee, thanks, Pro-Lifers

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

The just-negotiated Senate health care bill contains a big new pot of money to make it easier for pregnant teens to raise a child: The federal government would provide $25 million a year for a “pregnancy assistance fund.” The money … Continue reading →

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We are all cost vs. benefit utilitarians now!

Posted on December 17, 2009 by David Hume

Many liberals now want to kill the healthcare bill. At Talking Points Memo here is a dissent from an individual who is obviously going to get screwed if the bill is not passed: If I feel abandoned, it’s not by … Continue reading →

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Now That’s What I Call Lobbying

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

From The Hill: Conservative lawmakers plan a “prayercast” on Wednesday against healthcare reform legislation. Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), along with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will team up with a group of pastors and religious leaders for … Continue reading →

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The “new format”

Posted on December 13, 2009 by David Hume

The old theme broke on update. So I swapped in a random format. I’ve switched to the generic WP theme for now. Will try and get the old format back soon.

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Switzerland and the Minarets

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

Just in case it’s of interest to any readers of this blog (I saw that Razib had already mentioned the wider topic), here is my take (via NRO) on the Swiss and their minarets. Razib himself says that he is inclined … Continue reading →

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Less More, Please

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

During the course of his visit to Britain next year, the Pope will be addressing the country’s parliamentarians from the spot, reports the Daily Telegraph, where Sir Thomas More was sentenced to death in 1535. The choice of venue is, … Continue reading →

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Huckabee and the Tacoma police massacre

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

A specious leftist belief that the criminal justice system is racist has undoubtedly led to more disastrous criminal justice decisions than a specious religious belief that one is in touch with one’s favored divinity.  And perhaps Mike Huckabee’s high rate … Continue reading →

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The Church of Climate Change? (3)

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s a fairly even-handed summary of the Warmergate scandal from the London Times. These sections are particularly relevant to the idea that a belief in AGW has mutated, for some, into a quasi-religious faith: …There is unease even among researchers … Continue reading →

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A nation without divine favor

Posted on November 28, 2009 by David Hume

Reading Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism I am struck again by the peculiarity of the American nation, and its fundamental radicalism. I have already stated that this is implicitly an Anglo-Protestant nation. As a point of fact Protestant churches … Continue reading →

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Immaculate Conception: The Inner-city Version

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

Seven and a half months into Ta-Shai Pendleton’s first pregnancy, her child was stillborn. Then in early 2008, she bore a daughter prematurely.  Soon after, Ms. Pendleton moved from a community in Racine that was thick with poverty to a … Continue reading →

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