Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine, Reviewed
Some establishment media is still based: you can find good stuff if you know where to look. Like in the PI. Take this op-ed in the Manila Times, by one…
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The Magician and the Cardsharp — by Karl Johnson
This post, which could use some better writing, originally ran on 5 June 2009. But it’s a lot of fun. The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest…
Something Strange With New Book About Perversion Prone Priests by Frederic Martel
The giggly James Martin-wing of the Church is swooning over the new book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frederic Martel. Weepy articles are everywhere about…
Despite What You Heard, The Death Penalty Is Legitimate. Feser and Bessette’s “By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment”
Because, very oddly, there has been a changing of the catechism from the constant and ancient teaching (“the pope is distracting the world with fresh meat for the spirit of…
Trading Places: Aleksandr Dugin’s Putin vs Putin — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
I used to subscribed to The Jerusalem Post. Then I realized that I could get the real news a lot quicker by buying subscriptions to the NY Times and the…
Chapter 1 Excerpt from Uncertainty: The Soul of Probability, Modeling & Statistics
Buy the book! Necessary & Conditional Truth Given “x,y,z are natural numbers and x>y and y>z” the proposition “x>z” is true (I am assuming logical knowledge here, which I don’t…
Atheists Will Have No Excuse
There is a class of the argument of God’s existence that depend entirely on your thoughts. The one that interests us is Joseph de Maistre’s “no excuse” argument. It is…
Book Sneak Peek: Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
All, here is a segment, a tease, a mere fragment, of an upcoming book of popular fallacies from the chapter Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy. The Imposing Your Belief Fallacy occurs…