On Twitter’s Shadow Banning
Friend of ours noticed late last week that his tweets were no longer showing up in Twitter searches. So I searched for his name, complete with Twitter handle, and saw…
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Obama’s Climate Challenge. Do Business Leaders Dare To Take It?
Today's important political post is at The Stream: Obama's Climate Challenge. Do Business Leaders Dare To Take It? President Obama is bruiting the idea of a $10 per barrel oil…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Brought Things Into Being Out Of Nothing
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're only…
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New Pope Video: Ain’t The Planet Great?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akK7diU4Kgc Well, you can see it for yourself. The Pope, God bless him, brightly lit from below and in a voice most mellow, emphasized by environmentally friendly music, tells us…
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Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability
Via Ed Feser I was led back to Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, which has a lot about probability. I'll not do much of…
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On The Freedom Of Religion And Satanism
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…
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Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women
Today's post is at the Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women. If you are a true egalitarian, if you actually believe in the…
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Iowa Caucus Open Discussion. Update: Text Fixed, Those Coin Tosses Discussed
https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/694224471712878592 That tweet was my prediction early yesterday, which I made partly relying on polls but more on the size of the crowds those two men garnered. About those polls,…