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2011-06-07T05:00:15-04:00

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And now an atheist college

Last updated on: June 7, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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So how will this be different from regular colleges? Famed atheist Richard Dawkins will be among a group of British academic elites who will launch a new college that will rival top British universities like Oxford. The New College of the Humanities in central London will offer degrees in English, philosophy, history, economics and law starting from fall 2012. The private college is founded by 14 professors. Richard Dawkins, author of the bestseller The God Delusion, will teach evolutionary biology... Read more

2011-06-06T06:00:45-04:00

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Would conservative Christians vote for a Mormon?

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

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Two of the Repubican presidential candidates, the alleged front-runner Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, are Mormons. Both addressed the Faith & Freedom Coalition, an organization of conservative Christian political activists: “I came today not to give a political speech,” former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. told the crowd in a downtown Washington ballroom Friday, “but simply to introduce myself and my family.” There was, however, nothing simple about it. The audience he was addressing consisted of hundreds of politically oriented... Read more

2011-06-06T05:45:37-04:00

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Congress calls Obama on Libya war

Last updated on: June 6, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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We had been blogging about how President Obama has been ignoring the War Powers Act in waging war in Libya without Congressional consent. Now Congress has overwhelmingly struck back, with a bipartisan 3/4 of the House calling him on it: Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority by committing U.S. troops to the... Read more

2011-06-06T05:00:40-04:00

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China dumping U.S. treasuries

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

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What if everyone stops lending the U.S. government money? China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. Treasury bills are securities that mature in one year or less that are sold by the U.S. Treasury Department to fund the nation’s debt. Mainland Chinese... Read more

2011-06-03T06:00:56-04:00

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Cranach’s artistic confession of faith

Last updated on: June 3, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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We had been discussing Lucas Cranach’s seal of the winged serpent, crowned with a ring, and what it might mean. Thanks to Tom Hering for digging up this scholarly article by Wayne Martin, professor of philosophy of the University of Essex, who offers a reading of the artist’s “Eden” in the Courtald Gallery in England. As a reminder, art in Cranach’s day was charged with meaning, unlike the preoccupation with abstract forms of today, but that meaning was rendered visually. ... Read more

2011-06-03T05:46:05-04:00

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Banning circumcision?

Last updated on: June 3, 2011 at 5:46 am By Gene Veith

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San Francisco is considering a bill that would ban circumcision. There would be no religious exemptions. Voters will vote on the measure in November. Now it turns out that the author of the bill runs an anti-semitic website: Author of SF’s Anti Circumcision Initiative Engages in Disturbing Anti Semitic Advocacy » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog. This is another attempt to use government power to suppress religion. The target in this case, once again, is the Jews. Read more

Religious persecution

2011-06-03T05:30:37-04:00

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India companies hiring Americans for call centers

Last updated on: June 3, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Free market economics has a way of evening things out. A country with low labor costs can attract lots of employers, who bid up the price of labor. And as that country prospers, it may start looking for cheaper labor in countries that have high unemployment. Some of that appears to be happening, as call center companies in India are opening up operations in the United States: India’s outsourcing giants — faced with rising wages at home — have looked... Read more

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2011-06-03T05:00:34-04:00

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Super E. Coli

Last updated on: June 3, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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A food-poisoning epidemic in Europe is reportedly caused by a super-toxic strain of the E. coli bacteria: Scientists on Thursday blamed Europe’s worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a “super-toxic” strain of E. coli bacteria that may be brand new. But while suspicion has fallen on raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce as the source of the germ, researchers have been unable to pinpoint the food responsible for the frightening illness, which has killed at least 18 people, sickened more than 1,600... Read more

2011-06-02T06:00:16-04:00

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Those Lutheran satire clips

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

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You know those computer-animated-and-voiced clips on YouTube that have been going around in the genre of Lutheran satire? On subjects such as what pastors hate? “Not that kind of Lutheran”? “Messing with Dispensationalists”? They are from Pastor Fiene. He posts them and sometimes talks about them on his blog: The High Mid Life. HT: Pastor Douthwaite Read more

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2011-06-02T05:30:56-04:00

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The new age of fossil fuels

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

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Michael Lind, at Salon, no less, explodes the conventional wisdom: Are we living at the beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuels, not its final decades? The very thought goes against everything that politicians and the educated public have been taught to believe in the past generation. According to the conventional wisdom, the U.S. and other industrial nations must undertake a rapid and expensive transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy for three reasons: The imminent depletion of fossil fuels,... Read more

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