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Insanity & Doom Update XLVIII
Item Decline in the Fall (or Late Summer, Anyway): by Fred Gibbon This is Fred Reed at his curmudgeonly best. Item The Next Woman To Try Playing In A PGA…
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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…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLI
Item Great writers are found with an open mind I'd been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell and…
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Peter Singer Wants to Teach the World His Song Of Death
It's always amazing to me when I see Peter Singer's name crop up on an article. I keep guessing he'd have been tarred and feathered and purged from polite society…
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If The Founding Principles Were So Great, How’d We Get To Where We Are? Part II
Read Part I (first!). Munoz is right to show there was not unanimity among the Founders. Most adopted the language of rights, but some tempered this with doses of natural-law…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXXV
Item Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest More than 140 children were ritually killed in a single event in Peru more than 500 years ago. What could…
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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…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXXIII
Item Noname talks trauma, transitions and Telefone It's a few weeks before the Women's March, and Chicago rapper Noname (aka Fatimah Warner) is explaining how the song Bye Bye Baby,…