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April 2017

April 05, 2017

Exploding myths about cohabitation

University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox has published a study of the effects of cohabitation,...

April 05, 2017

From energy scarcity to energy abundance

Newspapers tend to offer good coverage of their city's main industry. So if you want...

April 05, 2017

What Germany is doing for Luther’s 500th Anniversary

Germany has lots going on for the 500th Anniversary year of Luther's posting of the...

April 04, 2017

Jokes about race and sex are out, so religion takes their place

In the culture of the workplace, it is now taboo to make jokes about race....

April 04, 2017

Democrats will filibuster away their power

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to recommend Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, so Democrats are...

April 04, 2017

Bob Dylan archive opens for researchers

In more Dylan news, the Bob Dylan Archive here in Oklahoma is now open for researchers. It...

April 03, 2017

Why April is the cruelest month

"April is the cruelest month." That snatch of poetry always comes to mind when the...

April 03, 2017

National debt will double in 30 years

The Congressional Budget Office released figures that project the national debt to double by 2047....

April 03, 2017

And now, the nature rights movement

The language of "rights" tends to win all arguments. There are "human rights." These include...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Criminalizing the opposition

The state of California has slapped 15 felony charges on David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt,...

March 31, 2017

Trump vows to fight conservative lawmakers in next election

President Trump, frustrated at the conservative Congressmen who thwarted his health care bill, vowed to...

March 31, 2017

Dylan will pick up his Nobel Prize this weekend

Bob Dylan, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, shocked the Swedish Academy by...

March 30, 2017

Student suspended for disagreeing with Muslim professor

Muslims believe that Jesus was not really crucified. According to the Qur'an, That they said...

March 30, 2017

Does the scientific method apply to psychology?

We've blogged about the problem in the field of psychology that so many of their...

March 30, 2017

U.S. Census won’t ask about LGBT identities

The 2020 Census will not ask people about their sexual orientation or gender identity. An...

March 29, 2017

Praying the Catechism

Many Christians have problems praying. Our minds wander; we run through our wants and needs; we...

March 29, 2017

Originalism and the rule of law

During his confirmation hearing for Supreme Court justice, liberal senators interrogated Neil Gorsuch about his...

March 29, 2017

America’s first genderless person

A Portland judge approved a petition from a 27-year-old man to legally change his gender...

March 28, 2017

Child sacrifice

Authorities and Christian ministries are fighting a major problem in Uganda: child sacrifice. Many animists...

March 28, 2017

Trump’s next try: tax cuts

His immigration order was knocked down by the courts. His healthcare plan was vetoed by...

March 28, 2017

To infinity and beyond

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng has written a popular, amusing, and fascinating book on the concept of...

March 27, 2017

Holy Sepulchre needs more repair or it might collapse

Restoration work on the shrine built around the likely spot of Christ's tomb has been...

March 27, 2017

Trump vs. his own supporters?

The plan to "repeal and replace" Obamacare that was shot down on Friday was complicated...

March 27, 2017

All mammals can swim, except for two

Contrary to what used to be thought, virtually all mammals can swim. Cats? Yes, though...

March 24, 2017

The myth of learning styles

You know how some people are "right brained" and other people are "left brained"? And...

March 24, 2017

Trump will keep Obamacare if his healthcare bill fails–which it did

Republican lawmakers, seeing that they don't have the votes, postponed voting on President Trump's healthcare...

March 24, 2017

Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says that Democrats will filibuster the confirmation of Supreme Court...

March 24, 2017

A new Bob Dylan interview

Bob Dylan has a new album coming out at the end of the month: Triplicate....

March 23, 2017

Group morality vs. individual morality

In the context of a discussion of the conflict between education secretary Betsy DeVos and...

March 23, 2017

Trump and team WERE under government surveillance

President Trump has claimed that the Obama administration bugged his Trump Tower offices. That accusation...