If a Republican were president, the MSM would pursue stories such as this with great vigor. But with Obama in office, his journalist protectors know what they don’t want to know. So it is up to the partisan media to uncover and/or drive most of the stories about corruption, . . . . Continue Reading »
Geographic Travels has put together a map of locations identifying where, according to tradition, the 12 Apostles of Christ died. Blue markers represent commonly accepted death locations while yellow markers represent disputed locations. View Where the 12 Apostles Died in a larger map (Via: Kevin . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study finds that metaphors can shape the debate about how best to fight crime : Psychology Assistant Professor Lera Boroditsky and doctoral candidate Paul Thibodeau have shown that people will likely support an increase in police forces and jailing of offenders if crime is described as a . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday Fox announced that it would be cancelling its long-running crime-stopping series America’s Most Wanted . If you’re anything like me your reaction to the news will be sense of shock: “You mean, that’s still on the air?” Indeed it is. Although the series which . . . . Continue Reading »
Medicare is going under. The status quo is not an option. Rep. Paul Ryan has proposed a major Medicare reform to have future beneficiaries (beginning for those that become eligible in 2022) to receive federal vouchers to purchase private plans. (This sounds sort of like Plan D . . . . Continue Reading »
Two areas of uncontroversial medical research may have combined to create a cure for AIDS. The first is genomic medicine. The second, adult stem cells. From the story:Brown was living in Berlin, Germany back in 2007, dealing with HIV and leukemia, when scientists there gave him a . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in 2006, at the height of Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion much ado, Terry Eagleton wrote a singeing review of Dawkins’ work in the London Review of Books , the first line of which gives some indication of his general impression of it: Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose . . . . Continue Reading »
On April 7 at Notre Dame University, William Lane Craig and Sam Harris debated whether morality requires God. Dr. Glenn Peoples posted a detailed play-by-play of the debate on his blog, including links to the audio. There are several other reviews listed here.I have a reflection rather than a review . . . . Continue Reading »
Can someone more versed in economic issues explain why we are having a faux-debate over the debt ceiling? Here is my understanding of how the debt ceiling works: Congress votes to spend money that the government doesn’t have and then tells the Treasury department to borrow the money (in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Because there are some pragmatists who are still open to arguments about whether torture (or, to use the current euphemism, “enhanced interrogation techniques”) can be effective, I thought it was worth highlighting this article by Barry Ritholtz . As Ritholtz notes, “Virtually all . . . . Continue Reading »
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