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At yesterday’s debut showing of Silent Conquest: The End of Freedom of Expression in the West at The Heritage Foundation, one of the most shocking moments was a comment by Lars Hedegaard, a Danish historian and chairman of the Danish Free Press Society. Hedegaard was asked: Could the screening of this movie and the free… Continuă lectura Silent Conquest: A Tale of Sharia and Western Self-Censorship

Apparently it wasn’t outrageous enough that the federal government flushed away $1.5 million of our money trying to figure out why most lesbians are so fat. Now this: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher “risk for hazardous drinking.” The University of Illinois has… Continuă lectura $2.7 Million to Figure Out Why Lesbians Drink Too Much

Τhere are two ways that liberal historians usually look at Stalin. The most leftward of these is to see Stalin as a victim of German and American imperialism who struggled to maintain the peace in the face of aggressive expansionistic efforts by Nazi Germany and the United States. Such a revisionist history would seem to… Continuă lectura How Stalin Fooled the World and Why It Matters Today

The battle for the claim to which tribe is truly “scientific” has again heated up. Fueled by a prickly exchange between Michael Shermer, assuming the liberals-are-anti-science corner in Scientific American, and Mother Jones‘ Chris Mooney, who literally wrote the book on how bad conservatives are at science, writers for different blogs and magazines  put forth their best pitches for their own… Continuă lectura When Science Looks Like Religion

The IMF/EU bank heist is being put on hold because the president can’t get the votes to approve the theft.  Zerohedge reports: Moments ago the state-run CYBC media reported perhaps the most material news ahead of tomorrow’s Cyprus parliamentary vote, which at this point will likely be rescheduled once more, for the simple reason that… Continuă lectura Standoff in Cyprus

Last Thursday, a woman was driving past the city of Ariel with her three young daughters in the car. At the same time, a group of Palestinians threw rocks at a truck coming in the other direction. The truck veered off its lane, and collided with the family’s car, causing moderate injuries to the mother and to the… Continuă lectura Rocks Can Kill

Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, some have wondered whether the medium might cause us to lose our common ground. There is conceivably enough material out there for every individual on the planet to enshroud himself in his own informational universe, almost entirely divorced from everyone else. But in fact, the opposite is… Continuă lectura Filter Bubbles Versus Viral Memes: Why We Have More Common Ground than Ever Before

There is something eschatologically exotic about Greek Islands. St John the Apostle received his apocalyptic vision on Patmos. It warned of the ‘Whore of Babylon’ and the coming of ‘the Beast’, whilst exhorting endurance through persecution by instilling hope in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Archbishop Chrysostomos of Paphos received his apocalyptic vision on… Continuă lectura Archbishop Chrysostomos:

The primitive tribalism into which American culture-especially its intelligentsia-is tumbling may hold the key to understanding how “leaders” like Barack Obama are thrust to the fore.I have almost finished wading through a stack of World Lit Survey papers as my Spring Break ends.  (Spring comes early down South.)  One of the essay options I created… Continuă lectura The Medicine Man and the Democrat Party’s Base: A Return to the Primal Cave

“The popular media narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals, as evidenced by the last two presidential elections. That’s what they think. That might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 and 2012.” Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) drew applause with that line, as he spoke at last… Continuă lectura Obamacare, Socialism, And Rick Perry’s Assumptions