by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine The progressive mind functions in terms of fossilized paradigms into which every crisis and problem are fitted, no matter how many qualifying or contradictory facts are left behind. These paradigms are part of a worldview, a picture of human existence that gives it coherence and meaning, and a narrative […]
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Science is ignored when it doesn’t support politically correct policy. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online President Obama entered office promising to restore the sanctity of science. Instead, a fresh war against science, statistics, and reason is being waged on behalf of politically correct politics. After the Sandy Hook tragedy, the president attempted to convert
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Too hot? Too cold? Regardless, it must be global warming. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online President Obama came to California. He saw a drought. He announced the cause to be global warming and left. How accurate was the president’s diagnosis of harmful, man-made climate change in stopping rain and snow? First, a
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by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The victims of the tornado that hit Moore Oklahoma had not even been counted when Democrat politicians made fools of themselves by trying to link the disaster to global warming and Republicans. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I. Power — Always Was and Always Will Be In my dumber days, between 2001-2008, I used to wonder why the Left relentlessly hammered the war on terror (e.g., renditions, tribunals, predators, preventative detention, Patriot Act, intercepts, wiretaps, Guantanamo Bay) when these measures had not only proven quite useful
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by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas At the turn of the twentieth century, President Theodore Roosevelt became embroiled in a public controversy over how some writers and naturalists described the natural world in overly anthropomorphic and sentimental terms. Share This
by Terry Scambray New Oxford Review A review of What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 179 pp.) Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine In any national election we can depend on the usual liberal ad hominemattacks on Republicans and their candidates. Share This
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A Review of Cornelius Hunter’s trilogy. by Terry Scambray The Chesterton Review Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil (Brazos Press, 2001, 189 pp.) Darwin’s Proof: The Triumph of Religion over Science (Brazos Press, 2003, 168 pp.) Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism (Brazos Press, 2007, 170 pp.) Share This
by Bruce S. Thornton RightNetwork.com The Democrats and their tribunes in the mainstream media weren’t too happy about the House of Representatives reading aloud the Constitution. Share This
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