Joel Keller recently posted regarding the newly released movie "Who's the Dodo? Intelligent Design Circus." I haven’t yet seen this movie (I plan to), but there is an obstacle to Intelligent Design so simple that even young children recognize it. I hope the movie addresses this question head on (Keller's…
We've often heard of the "War on Terror." How much public support would this effort have had it been called the "Initiative to Bomb and Shoot People This Administration Deems Bad"? Not as much, I assume. Sometimes the titles to laws and policies suggest the opposite of the true effect…
Consider the reasoning process of our top leader, who has the responsibility of steering us through incredibly dangerous times. The following excerpt is from Editor and Publisher: I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true . . . One, I believe…
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Today, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said: Gasoline prices have soared an average of 60 cents a gallon in less than a month because suppliers are unable to keep up with demand, a situation that could persist up to three more years. Bodman went on to suggest that stablilizing Iraq is…