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2009-08-18T05:00:25-04:00

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Yale Univ. Press censors cartoons of Muhammed

Last updated on: August 18, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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. . .even though the book it is publishing is about the cartoons! The author had wanted them in her book, but a panel of 24 consultants told the academic publisher not to print the cartoons, nor the other illustrations of the prophet that are discussed in the book. If Yale University Press is scared of Muslim reaction, then it should pull the book from publication. But to print the book without the illustrations that the book is discussing is... Read more

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2009-08-17T05:44:21-04:00

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Controversial stuff dropped from health care bill

Last updated on: August 17, 2009 at 5:44 am By Gene Veith

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Congress is listening to at least some of its constituents’ concerns. Senate Bill Will Not Address End-of-Life Care: The Senate Finance Committee’s health care plan will not include provisions dealing with end-of-life care, now one of the more controversial topics in the health care debate, the committee’s top Republican said on Wednesday. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa said in a statement that the committee “dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration entirely because of the way they could be misinterpreted and... Read more

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2009-08-17T05:30:58-04:00

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New Mt. Sinai site with relics of Bible miracles?

Last updated on: August 17, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Some people are maintaining that they have found the “real” Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia. And the discovery is accompanied with evidence of Biblical history, including the possibility of actual artifacts of miracles described in Exodus. This is from a secular blogsite. I’ll intersperse some pictures of what the account refers to, which are so mindblowing that they nearly defy belief : Dr. Moller points out that the site at Nuweiba he identifies as the Red Sea crossing point has... Read more

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2009-08-14T06:00:35-04:00

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The great tomato ideological experiment

Last updated on: August 14, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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What is the best kind of conservatism? Crunchy-conservatism (the natural order, tradition, Wendell Berry, community, rural, decentralization, eating locally, small businesses, small-is-beautiful)? Or free market conservatism (technology, progress, Adam Smith, the individual, urban, centralization, eating globally, big corporations, big-is-better)? I devised an experiment to answer the question scientifically. In May, I planted two tomato plants side by side. One was a heritage tomato (a natural, uncontaminated strain from the olden days). That embodies crunchy-conservatism. The other was a hybrid tomato... Read more

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2009-08-14T05:52:20-04:00

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The pro-life Kennedy

Last updated on: August 14, 2009 at 5:52 am By Gene Veith

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What was missing in virtually all of the media tributes on the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver is that she was a pro-life activist. LifeNews gives the rest of the story: Although other members of the Kennedy family abandoned their pro-life beliefs as their political stock rose, Eunice Kennedy Shriver never did. And for that, pro-life advocates are mourning the passing of the woman who founded Special Olympics. Shriver died this morning [August 11] at the age of 88 surrounded... Read more

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2009-08-14T05:15:59-04:00

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All you can fly plan

Last updated on: August 14, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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JetBlue Airways is offering an all you can fly pass that is good for a month and costs $599: JetBlue Airways will offer an “all-you-can-jet” pass for $599 in which passengers can book an unlimited amount of flights within a one-month span, the airline said Wednesday. Pass holders can fly to any of JetBlue’s (JBLU) 56 destinations between Sept. 8 and Oct. 8, with no seat limitations or blackout dates, the company said in a release. Airline equities analyst Bob... Read more

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2009-08-14T05:00:39-04:00

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John Warwick Montgomery’s magnum opus

Last updated on: August 14, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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I thought I would pass along a notice from my colleague at Patrick Henry College, John Warwick Montgomery: I would appreciate your spreading the word that the new edition of my Tractatus (published this month by the Verlag fuer Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn, Germany, and distributed in the Americas by the Canadian Institute for Law, Theology and Public Policy: www.ciltpp.com) contains over 75 additional propositions/corrections/improvements since the first edition was published in 2002. These have come about largely as a... Read more

Apologetics

2009-08-13T05:15:26-04:00

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Old clergy vs. young clergy

Last updated on: August 13, 2009 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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A study of people in Roman Catholic religious orders has found that the younger priests and nuns are more conservative than the older ones. From New Nuns and Priests Seen Opting for Tradition – NYTimes.com: A new study of Roman Catholic nuns and priests in the United States shows that an aging, predominantly white generation is being succeeded by a smaller group of more racially and ethnically diverse recruits who are attracted to the religious orders that practice traditional prayer... Read more

Church

2009-08-13T05:00:57-04:00

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Controlling health care costs

Last updated on: August 13, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson notes the intrinsic conflict between increasing access to health insurance and decreasing costs, arguing that it is impossible to do both at the same time. He suggests controlling costs first. One way to do it, he says, is to reform Medicare: Just imagine what the health-care debate would be like if it truly focused on controlling spending. For starters, we wouldn’t be arguing about how to “pay for” the $1 trillion or so of costs... Read more

2009-08-13T04:57:37-04:00

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Computer with consciousness?

Last updated on: August 13, 2009 at 4:57 am By Gene Veith

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A British newspaper has published an intriguing bit of speculation. From Are we on the brink of creating a computer with a human brain?: What is it, in that three pounds of grey jelly, that gives rise to the feeling of conscious self-awareness, the thoughts and emotions, the agonies and ecstasies that comprise being a human being? This is a question that has troubled scientists and philosophers for centuries. The traditional answer was to assume that some sort of ‘soul’... Read more

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