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2011-12-06T09:54:44-05:00

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Good-bye to next-day delivery

Last updated on: December 6, 2011 at 9:54 am By Gene Veith

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If you put first class postage on a letter, it used to be delivered the next day. Lately, you can’t count on that, but sometimes it happens. But now the U. S. Post Office has announced that it won’t even try, that to save money first class mail will now be delivered in two days at the soonest: Unprecedented cuts by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service will slow first-class delivery next spring and, for the first time in 40 years,... Read more

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U. S. Post Office

2011-12-05T06:00:46-05:00

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Requiring acceptance of homosexuality

Last updated on: December 5, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Here is a religious liberty case to watch: The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments in a religious liberty case that could determine whether a college has the right to require students to profess certain beliefs about homosexuality in order to get a degree. Augusta State University, in east Georgia, put counseling student Jennifer Keeton on academic probation in 2010 after she acknowledged in private conversations and during class that she disagreed with homosexuality. School administrators claimed... Read more

2011-12-05T05:45:01-05:00

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Cain drops out

Last updated on: December 5, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Herman Cain has dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination: In a long awaited announcement Herman Cain stood with his wife Gloria before a crowd of supporters at his campaign office in north DeKalb County, Georgia to say that he will suspend his campaign due to the continued hurt suffered by his family from “false allegations.” “So as of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign,” he said. Following... Read more

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Herman Cain

2011-12-05T05:30:47-05:00

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Bedlam in Oklahoma and in the BCS

Last updated on: December 5, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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The rivalry in my native Oklahoma between the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma and the Cowboys of Oklahoma State divides parent and child, brother and brother. It certainly does in my family! The Sooners have almost always been better, but the intensity of the games is such that the Cowboys occasionally stage an upset. I have proposed, to torment my brother and parents (OSU alums) that the state legislature pass a bill requiring the lower-ranked of the two teams... Read more

Oklahoma State Cowboys

2011-12-02T06:00:12-05:00

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How John Stuart Mill changed the culture

Last updated on: December 2, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Roger Kimball on the legacy of John Stuart Mill: In 1859, two revolutionary books were published. One was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The other was John Stuart Mill’s pamphlet On Liberty. Darwin’s book revolutionized biology and fundamentally altered the debate between science and religion. Mill’s book revolutionized the way we think about innovation in social and moral life. What is your opinion of innovation? Do you think it is a good thing? Of course you do. You... Read more

2011-12-02T05:45:38-05:00

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Psychologists admit to bogus research

Last updated on: December 2, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Social science aspires to the status of natural science, never mind that human beings are not as consistent or predictable as inert matter. But a new study has found that an alarmingly large percentage of experimental psychologists admit to using questionable, if not bogus, research methods: Questionable research practices, including testing increasing numbers of participants until a result is found, are the “steroids of scientific competition, artificially enhancing performance”. That’s according to Leslie John and her colleagues who’ve found evidence... Read more

2011-12-02T05:30:36-05:00

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An artist without greed or ego

Last updated on: December 2, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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You’ve got to love Elvis Costello, who is telling his fans NOT to buy his latest box set because it’s too expensive, but to instead buy that of Louis Armstrong, whose music is “vastly superior.” Just in time for the holidays, Elvis Costello has a new $225 box set for sale — and he’s telling fans NOT to buy it. The singer says $225 is just too much to pay for “Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook,” even if it... Read more

2011-12-02T05:15:18-05:00

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The diner as American icon

Last updated on: December 2, 2011 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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Foreigners are fascinated by American diners, seeing them as icons of American culture. So says the BBCg: Sitting in a diner, on the inside looking outside. This is a quintessential American experience. Add a booth, a Formica counter and a cup of joe – as diner patrons call their coffee. Themed restaurants and burger chains from Mumbai to Manchester aim to replicate this chrome-flashed experience, and diner fare such as home fries and fluffy pancakes are now global fast food... Read more

2011-12-01T06:00:09-05:00

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An alternative presidential option?

Last updated on: December 1, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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What do you think of this possibility–not a third party, but a coalition ticket elected by the public via the internet? The restless political middle — emboldened by the recent inability of a special congressional committee to agree on a debt-reduction deal — is staking out a controversial plan to insert itself into the 2012 election. A bipartisan group of political strategists and donors known as Americans Elect has raised $22 million and is likely to place a third presidential... Read more

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2012 Presidential Election

American Elect

2011-12-01T05:45:04-05:00

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Non-creationist critiques of Darwinism

Last updated on: December 1, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Marquette philosophy professor Howard Kainz reviews two new books in which atheist scholars critique Darwinism: Surprisingly, two recent books by atheist philosophers of science have joined with ID theorists in the criticism of neo-Darwinism. Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in What Darwin Got Wrong come at neo-Darwinism from a number of directions. Initially, they draw a comparison with B.F. Skinner’s psychological theory of “operant conditioning,” which attempted to explain changes in human behavior by patterns of stimulus and response. Limitations... Read more

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