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2011-04-15T05:45:13-04:00

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Academic bias

Last updated on: April 15, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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A new study demonstrates what might seem perfectly obvious but which still needs to be demonstrated: That there is a distinct and measurable bias in academia against political conservatives and (especially) conservative Christians. See Preferred Colleagues – Innovations – The Chronicle of Higher Education. HT: Jackie Read more

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2011-04-15T05:30:09-04:00

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Spain’s Postmodern Socialism

Last updated on: April 15, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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A discussion of Spain’s financial woes blames in part Prime Minister Zapatero’s postmodernist worldview: Economists both inside and outside of Spain had been warning for many years that the country’s construction boom was unsustainable, and that urgent measures needed to be taken to diversify the economy and to make it more competitive. Instead, Zapatero wasted valuable time and energy denying that there actually was a problem. Spanish Socialists, like many postmodern relativists, believe that all problems are by definition imaginary... Read more

2011-04-15T05:00:23-04:00

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A church and the Jackie Robinson signing

Last updated on: April 15, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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A church played a major role in baseball history: Sometimes, matters of faith have a quiet yet powerful way of influencing history. Take, for example, the behind-the-scenes story that preceded the entry of the first African-American player to major league baseball more than six decades ago. That player, of course, was the legendary Jackie Robinson, who shattered the big-league color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The story of faith belongs to the baseball... Read more

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2011-04-14T06:00:07-04:00

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President Obama’s deficit-reduction plan

Last updated on: April 14, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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It’s basically to raise taxes: President Obama called for cutting the nation’s combined budget deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years on Wednesday, countering Republican budget plans with what he said was a more balanced approach that relies in part on tax increases for the wealthy as well as on spending cuts. Mr. Obama spoke in strikingly partisan tones in parts of the 43-minute speech, offering a blistering critique of the Republican approach to reducing the deficit and... Read more

2011-04-14T05:30:17-04:00

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The lies of embryonic stem cell research

Last updated on: April 14, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Embryonic stem cell research, contrary to the rhetoric, will NOT lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s. And it probably won’t for Parkinson’s disease, either. According to Joe Carter, stem cell scientists know this, but purposefully lie about it to overcome pro-life opposition to the destruction of embryos: Several years ago I worked for a Christian bioethics think tank when ESCR was being hotly debated in the media. Although the ethics of the issue were contested, there was not much disagreement... Read more

2011-04-14T05:00:41-04:00

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France as the world’s new policeman

Last updated on: April 14, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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French President Sarkozy is the new George Bush, pushing the military intervention first in Libya and now in the Ivory Coast, where French-led UN forces, battling another murderous dictator, captured President Gbagbo, who was ousted in an election but refused to leave office. Now Europe is interventionist, while the United States comes in only reluctantly, if at all. Like Europe used to do. Barack Obama swept to power in 2008 on a wave of anti-war sentiment, while David Cameron entered... Read more

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2011-04-13T06:00:41-04:00

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The rights of the Earth. And of bugs. And of trees.

Last updated on: April 13, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Before the UN, a proposal that Bolivia has already enacted, a new frontier of rights legislation: Bolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving “Mother Earth” the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural things in the South American country. The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to “dominate and exploit”... Read more

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2011-04-13T05:44:36-04:00

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Why Magician’s Nephew will be the next Narnia movie

Last updated on: April 13, 2011 at 5:44 am By Gene Veith

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Well, the Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie didn’t do so well, even worse than Prince Caspian. Still, as we blogged about earlier, Walden Media is forging ahead with The Magician’s Nephew. In an interview with Christianity Today, the head of that studio explains why: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe opened in December 2005 to a massive audience, earning more than $1 billion in box office ($745 million) and DVD sales ($332 million) combined. Critical reviews were good... Read more

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2011-04-13T05:30:25-04:00

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Demonizing the Republicans

Last updated on: April 13, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Kathleen Parker gives some good examples of demonizing your opponent: So why do Republicans hate art, the elderly and children? Hint: Same reason parents hate their children when they say, “No.” We could just leave it at that, but this is too much fun. The demonizing of Republicans for trying to seriously address our desperately ailing economy surely begs for a new metaphor. The GOP has become the army of Mordor, fat-gobbed predators who feed on children while destroying all... Read more

2011-04-12T06:00:44-04:00

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Evangelicalism and Pietism

Last updated on: April 12, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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The noted Christian historian Mark Noll says that a revolution has taken place in our understanding of the history of American evangelicalism. Citing the scholarship of British historian W. R. Ward, who died recently, Noll says that the origins of American evangelicalism are now understood to lie not in Puritanism or frontier revivals but in 17th century German Pietism: Never from within the Anglo-American community of historians working on the modern history of Christianity has there been such an encompassing... Read more

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