Andrew Sullivan sums up Palin – it’s really about McCain

Andrew Sullivan concludes that the choice of Palin should focus us sharply on McCain's poor judgment: To my mind, this pick is not about Palin's unreadiness to be president. It's about McCain's unreadiness to be president. This act of judgment - a blend of ignorance, gut, cynicism, and pure egotism…

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What’s the deal with Sarah Palin?

There is a feeding frenzy regarding Sarah Palin out there.  It's intense and disorienting.  It's also disquieting. Palin seems like a pleasant woman who would make a nice neighbor.   But since when are people qualified to be Vice-President just because they are "nice"? Tonight I started seeing many comments that…

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Deep Water Effects on Radioactivity

We've had a long comment aside in the Iridium Layer post about whether a Young Earth might be proven if one assumes that all isotopes "age" faster under water at some depth. Let's consider some of the repercussions if this were Truth instead of fantasy: Nuclear waste would not be…

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It takes conflict among colleges to make education interesting to the media

If the media really wanted to know about the kind of education offered by America's colleges, they could visit any of hundreds of fine colleges hundreds of days each year. It's a rare day, however, when any corporate media outlet takes interest in education of any sort. Unless, of course,…

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