How informed about current events are you? Try this to find out: Test Your News IQ Q1 – Pew Research Center. HT: Bruce Gee
How informed about current events are you? Try this to find out: Test Your News IQ Q1 – Pew Research Center. HT: Bruce Gee
Raymond Ibrahim takes up the question of why so many jihadists, for all of their alleged Islamic piety, often are so sexually immoral, to the point of going to strip clubs before their suicide bombing runs. After a fascinating tour of this phenomenon in Islamic
Dartmouth researchers have devised a way to use technology to detect art forgeries: Sparse coding technology has long been an important tool in neuroscience research, allowing scientists to quantitatively determine how optical information is represented by neurons in the brain. Dartmouth researchers have recently extended
You’ve seen them: those huge roadside crosses. It seems that some pastors are promoting them as what they call “eye-gate evangelism.” Now they are becoming controversial, with some people throwing up obstacles to their construction, considering them kitschy eye-sores. See Controversy over great big roadside
A couple of days ago, in that post about whether or not it would be moral to walk out of a housing loan, I referred to a “Kantian” argument. In case you had no idea what I was talking about, I was alluding to a
In more archaeological news, the wall that Solomon built around Jerusalem has been discovered. “The city wall that has been uncovered testifies to a ruling presence. Its strength and form of construction indicate a high level of engineering”, [Eliat] Mazar said. The city wall is
The National Journal has put together a useful list based on objective study of voting records (the numbers indicate the ranking, including ties): The 10 Most Liberal Senate Most Conservative Senate 1. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 1. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) 1. Roland
Might the skill sets necessary for getting elected be incompatible with the skill sets necessary for actually governing? Now that our politicians are in constant campaign mode–which requires pie-in-the-sky promises and unrealistic rhetoric–does that, by its very nature, prevent them from solving actual problems? Such
On Wednesday, gay marriage will be legal in Washington, D.C. To avoid having to pay benefits to employees who enter into gay marriages, Catholic Charities will halt health benefits for ALL spouses of new hires. One day before same-sex marriage becomes legal in the District,
Look at your phone bill very carefully. It may well contain small charges that add up to a major world-wide scam: Roy and John Lin made a devilish fortune in the details of phone bills, according to a federal investigation. The San Francisco brothers hired
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