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Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science

Today's post is at the Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science. The excerpt here keeps my caveman joke which was lost somewhere downstream. Jerry…

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This Week In Doom: Crunchy Yummy Babies And A New Circle Of Hell

There's not much to enjoy about this week's doom, except to note that things are speeding up. Perhaps we need a pseudo-quantified measure of our acceleration into the abyss? Crunchy…

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The Remnant: Ever Wonder Why Gmarriage Is Only Legal in Post Christian Nations?

Today's post is at The Remnant: "Ever Wonder Why Gmarriage Is Only Legal in Post Christian Nations?" Have you noticed that gmarriage---government-defined marriage---is legal only in post-Christian nations? Why this…

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The Perfectibility of Man: Suicide of the West at 50

It's (past) time we examined James Burnham's under-appreciated classic Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, a book written fifty years ago. Everybody should…

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Climatology Isn’t The Only Thing Killing Science

I received this interesting email from reader Mike Nash that I thought would be of interest to all. Nash saw my piece in the Federalist yesterday and commented. Sorry but…

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Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality at The Federalist

Today's post is at The Federalist: "Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality". So Ars Technica sent a young man who bills himself as an "educator" and hydrologist to the…

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Planned Parenthood Kills And Sells Victims’ Body Parts. Evil Doc Says Yum

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/621065430996643840 It was bit of black comedy yesterday watching the reaction to the news that Planned Parenthood was selling the body parts of its victims. If you were (understandably) in…

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An Exchange with Newsday About Pope Francis

Regular readers will recall that I like to document my interactions with the press, especially the mainstream media. I do this to show the discrepancy from what they are told…

Johnno on Environmental Experts To Rip Out Trees, Build Solar Electric Plant In Snow Belt To “Save The Environment”January 12, 2025
The climate gaveth in abundance, but gub'mint saeth, "Nay!", yet proceedth to say, "the climate never giveth, but instead hath…
FRIDAY AFTERNOON EDITION | BIG PULPIT on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 11, 2025
[…] Punditry, and Analysis:Au Revoir, Justin Trudeau – The Editors at National Catholic RegisterEngland’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To…
Ramandeep on Class 2: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Quid Est VeritasJanuary 11, 2025
Dear Prof. Briggs, You are right that when we are uncertain about a certain proposition, we don't know whether it…
Johnno on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 10, 2025
Par for the course from a country whose King threatened many so that he could have a diversity of wives.…
Plantagenet on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 10, 2025
I am puzzled Briggs! Why have you used a picture of, what appears to be, Kemi Badenoch? She is the…