…for Richard Dawkins to pause from his ignorant ranting for, say, a year and just conduct a serious conversation with somebody like Mike Flynn, in the dim and flickering hope he might say something like, “I never knew that!” Dawkins doesn’t even know what he doesn’t even know. Here he is: embarrassing himself by stepping way out of his field and holding forth on The Big Picture. Once again, the concept of different sorts of intelligence is given massive empirical... Read more

for instance, David Frum, who actually wrote the book with the insane secular messianic title An End to Evil and who issued the great neocon Bull of Excommunication against people he declared “unpatriotic conservatives” (meaning those who dared to suggest that the Iraq War was a stupid idea and who refused to jump on Bush/Cheney/NRO’s bandwagon of War Fever), has his wits about him when he writes: President Obama is right not to talk too much about Iran. Words of... Read more

Most Americans don’t realize the threat that is posed to our freedoms by the Soft Tyranny to the North. No, there won’t be any armies of maple-syrup-wielding troops pouring across the border. However, the Canuck gov’t has made some major advances in figuring out legal ways to crush free speech and punish those who do not observe the leftist pieties. (These methods could be used to punish any tribal pieties Caesar may choose to observe.) And smart boys on this... Read more

Just a line that cracked me up (of which George Will has more than a few): Politicians have extraordinary shoulder joints that enable them to pat themselves on the back, and last week the president, a master of that calisthenic, performed it in the Rose Garden. Well, when swatting a fly is treated like one of the Herculean Feats, it’s probably not too surprising that our Third Leader from Generation Narcissus should be filled with a warm sense of self-affirmation... Read more

Just wanted to toss to you my recent post that may help some people chill out who is and isn’t going to Heaven and “strive to enter in.” Your thoughts are always welcome. It’s notable that when people in the gospels attempt to play that perennial favorite game of “Guess which of us is saved and which is damned” Jesus never gives a straight answer to a straight question. Instead, he answers, not the question, but the questioner. To one... Read more

I post this in tribute to you, my Legions of Terror: That is all. Read more

Over at John C. Wright’s blog, sundry materialists are busy contradicting themselves and performing bits of hand-waving to get past the insuperable difficulties with their dogmatic materialism. One guy tries to invoke Occam’s razor in order to claim that physical reality is “all there is”–blissfully unaware that Occam’s Razor is not a physical reality yet is quite real, as is, oh, all of mathematics. Moral: don’t go up against the author of Eifelheim if you are going to champion flat-footed... Read more

And his fawning sycophant Chris Matthews was filled with the Spirit of the Age, and prophesied, saying, “Blessed be the Zeitgeist of the Media, for it has visited and redeemed us, the Right Sort of People, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant FDR, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all... Read more

on “Entering the Year of Grace for Priests”. Read more

descends into self-parody. Over at Crunchy Con, there’s further proof that PETA is home to every evil, life-denying misanthrope and sociopath the animal “rights” movement has managed to collect in its fundamental hatred of homo sapiens. Shorter PETA: Wishing Hitler could have done more. Read more