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Featured Articles Why Science Is Broken: Hillsdale Speech Video & Transcript Now Online The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2 The Great Global Warming—A.K.A.…
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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…
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What Went Wrong In Ireland, And What Will Go Wrong Here
What went awry in Ireland was not the result of the vote, a result which was, of course, the wrong decision. The offense was something much deeper, something basic. It…
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The Banality of Evil Redux: Do Planned Parenthood Officials Sin? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Reposted from Bob Kurland's site. The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating…
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Are Wars And Violence Decreasing? Taleb’s New Paper Reviewed
The vale of tears I've been asked by several people to comment on Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's paper (thankfully, not peer-reviewed, unless you count this) "On the tail…
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Encyclical Delayed, Possibly Downgraded To Lesser Form?
The encyclical might be downgraded to some lesser form of "statement." This is the rumor as reported to me from "sources." Given the excitement the encyclical generated on the left,…
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Legalized Suicide Leads To Government Deciding Who Lives, Who Dies. Update: Predictions Verified
If the government believes it has the power to grant you the right to die, then it will eventually believe it has the power to decide who lives and who…
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Be A Man
Because of this Special Report, we interrupt our regularly scheduled tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. It returns next week. The Archdiocese of New York held its first ever men's conference…
