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The Pope Is Wrong About Global Warming
God bless Pope Francis. But he is wrong about global warming, and even wronger about "special interests" trying to keep global warming going. The Holy Father knows a lot more…
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The Crisis Of Conservative Catholicism: Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture at First Things
Ross Douthat gave the 28th Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club (they have a complete set of books on the "Rebellion" in their library) in Manhattan. Your roving reporter…
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What The Republicans Didn’t Learn In Middle School. Guest Post by Mrs X
Editor's note: This column comes from somebody I spoke to when I was at the Heartland Climate Conference, ICCC-10---1, 2, 3---and who wishes to remain anonymous. It came at a…
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Vote For Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan For President: It’s The Intelligent Thing To Do
I normally don't vote in presidential elections because the choices are between flavors of progressivism---D-type, R-type, etc.---and I desire none. But scrappy "transhumanist" Zoltan Istvan has changed my mind. He…
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The Quality Of Speeches And Education Has Diminished. Egalitarianism Demands It
Our friend John Cook points us to an analysis, of sorts, of the so-called reading-level of States of Union addresses, and its decline through the years, from the site Priceonomics.…
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Discrimination Is Everywhere!
A seventy-year-old man auditions to play the lead in Model Detective, a film about a Victoria's Secret swimsuit model who solves beach crime, and he is turned down because he…
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This Week In Doom: A Riotously Good Time
Because this week has been especially doom-laden, we're pushing up our bulletin a full day. Indeed, conditions were so rank these past seven days that they almost qualify to be…
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On Nate Silver’s Predictions: Which Side Of The Probability Equation Are We On?
When I checked FiveThirtyEight.com's Senate prediction, it said "Republicans have a 72.3% chance of winning a majority." There were also words that the "probability that each party will win control…
