Please Tread on Me: The Failure of American Backbone and of American Foreign Policy

The simple fact is that the failed policies of weak presidents produce more misery and pain in the long run than they prevent in the short.

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The Blind Faith of Stephen Hawking: The Eternal Universe

By universally acknowledged definition, anything that occurred before the Big Bang is inaccessible to science. So, any statement affecting what occurs before the Bang or the assumed eventual Crunch (or Freeze, or whatever) must be made primarily based on blind faith.

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Looking at Scientific Sovereignty: Daring to Question Stephen Hawking

When it comes to ultimate questions science, as defined by modern naturalists, does not "work" and never could.

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Barack of Loxsley: Why Obama is not Robin Hood

Obama's plans bear only a cursory resemblance to the career and goals of Robin Hood.

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The Non-Separation of Powers: Will the real legislative branch please stand up?

America's failure to maintain the separation of powers shows that our governmental structure is suffering from a degenerative disease; until that disease is cured our country will always be in danger and our liberties always at risk.

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Castrating the Constitution: The Real Stakes in ’08

If Obama and the Democrats win this election, they will be able to set the standard of constitutional interpretation for the foreseeable future.

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The Need for Hosts: Why Liberals Can Never Lose Control of the Universities

Liberalism is, in practical terms, a parasitic worldview, and the universities provide a perfect field of potential hosts.

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Denying the Politics of Good and Evil: The Right Mix for International Atrocities

If we reserve our full condemnation and any accompanying action for those who have plainly distinguished themselves as evil incarnate, then we are in fact doing nothing more than pretending evil isn’t there.

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Ahmadinejad is Right: Iran is Winning the Nuclear Debate

The length of the list of warnings issued to Iran at various times by various people borders on the ridiculous.

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Reflections from the “Well of Ignorance:” Buchanan Mangles Munich

Would giving Danzig to the Nazis have prevented World War II?

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From Hash to Omelet: Buchanan, Bush, and Hitler

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will probably treat any real attempt at two-sided diplomacy as Hitler did: mainly as something to be exploited.

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Human Origins and a Side of Fries: Refuting a Popular Neo-Darwinian Position

Whatever standard of evidence neo-Darwinists apply to their own theories, they should also apply externally and consistently to other competing propositions and to the evidence as a whole.

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Seeing through a Glass Darkly: Interpreting Intelligence on Iran and other “Rogue Nations”

The only time we will ever have a “smoking gun” is after it has been fired, and the crime has been committed.

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Social Suicide by Government: Conservatives & Social Policy

Government programs won’t fix the marriage crisis any more than they have fixed abstinence, education, politics, or crime. They can never get at the underlying problems because they rarely treat people as individual moral agents who must make individual decisions and be held accountable.

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A Nuclear Fait Accompli: Taking the Nazi Road to War

Ahmadinejad and his cronies in Iran appear to be literally following a path blazed in the Twentieth Century by Hitler.

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Pushing Atheism in the Name of Tolerance: The Myth of the Religion-Neutral Classroom

Most Americans presume that public schools strive to provide a neutral arena in which multiple religions can be exercised equally.

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Howard Dean and the 1850s: Convenient Racial Revisionism

Someone should remind Howard Dean that his Party is the party is segregation, slavery, and Jim Crow. 

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Idiot: California and Parental Rights

For teachers unions and education bureaucrats, compulsory school attendance is a tool of social control.

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Sanctifying Murder: Who Would Jesus Kill

Planned Parenthood’s chaplain, Ignacio Castuera, says he is only doing what Jesus would want him to do.

The Pot Calling the Kettle Racist: New Orleans, Cannibalism, and Racial Watersheds

Katrina is only a “watershed” in racial affairs for people who are looking for a convenient one to exploit.

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Strolling Down Diagon Alley: What Should We Think of Harry Potter?

Christians and conservatives don’t seem to know what to do with the Harry Potter phenomenon.

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Do Conservatives Contradict Themselves When They Talk About Freedom?

The liberal approach to freedom, well intentioned though it may be, does not reflect reality.

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The Fugitive “Fetus” Act: Some Historical Perspectives on a Recent Abortion Controversy

If the idea that millions of children are being killed in this country doesn’t bother someone, perhaps the idea that he or she may be “legally” forced to participate will.

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Loopholes and Health Threats: The Deus ex Machina of American Abortion

Pro-lifers on all levels of the fight must demand a clear, medical definition of what constitutes a threat to a mother’s life.

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A New Dawn of Conservatism: Rethinking “Conservative” and “Liberal”

Decades have passed since the “liberal” agenda became the status quo for most of the country.

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