Plead the First

Nancy over at the Front Pew links to this Washington Post article and asks, “Will Pope Benedict XVI embrace Intelligent Design?” The author of the WaPo article seems to think that its a possibility, saying: Schoenborn, a close associate of Benedict, raised eyebrows last year with an article in the New York Times suggesting the […]

Examining the idea of “Bush Derangement Syndrome“, Lex takes a look at why the President has engendered such strong feelings in his opposition. As I mentioned in the comments there, when taken individually, it’s all too easy to shrug off some of the administration’s affronts to our values, but when they’re all lined up, one […]

Jason Rosenhouse explains a few easy ways to spot bogus Intelligent Design arguments. Anti-evolutionists are skillful at burying the weaknesses of their arguments beneath a wealth of scientific jargon. This presents a problem for fair-minded non-scientists trying to determine where reality lies. If rivals in a debate make differing claims about the relationship between thermodynamics […]

At first, I was ambivalent. But the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that the portrait of Jesus hanging in a West Virginia high school hallway should probably be taken down. The problem is not religion, or Jesus, or pictures of Jesus. The problem is government endorsement of a specific […]

At the moment, in the Latest News section of CNN’s website, one of the headlines reads: “Airport X ray shows everything, yes everything” The fifth headline after this reads: “Report: X-ray devices don’t see explosives in shoes”

In the wake of last week’s foiled terrorist plot, I blogged that a law enforcement approach seems to be a very effective method of dealing with the threats posed by terrorism. In his column today, George Will comes to a similar conclusion: The London plot against civil aviation confirmed a theme of an illuminating new […]

The Department of Homeland Security updated our threat level yesterday: August 11, 2006 – The United States Government has raised the nation’s threat level for the aviation sector to: Code Red or Severe for flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States Code Orange or High for all commercial aviation operating in […]