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I am a consistent listener to Glenn Loury and John McWhorter on bloggingheads.tv because even though I don’t always agree with Loury and McWhorter, I always find them interesting. Here John McWhorter debates Nikhil Singh in a Reason magazine sponsored debate on the topic, “Has Anti-Racism Become as Harmful as Racism?” You can watch the […]
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The gospel of Mark and the gospel of John provide quite different accounts of the trial of Jesus. There are similarities in that Pontius Pilate is the Roman Governor during this trial. But in the gospel of Mark, when Pilate asks Jesus if he is, in fact, the King of the Jews, Jesus responds with […]
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Both the gospel of Matthew and the gospel of Luke provide a genealogy for Jesus. Well, actually one wonders if they actually do provide Jesus’s genealogy or Joseph’s genealogy, Joseph being Jesus’s supposed father. After all, according to both the gospel of Matthew and the gospel of Luke (but not the gospel of Mark), Joseph […]
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The New Testament includes four gospels. The gospel according to Matthew, The gospel according to Mark, The gospel according to Luke and The gospel according to John. These gospels are actually anonymous. In other words, the writers of these gospels at no point say, “My name is Matthew and this is my story of Jesus’s ministry, […]
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I found this debate, conducted yesterday at Notre Dame University, on the Trump Presidency featuring Charles Kesler and Jonah Goldberg. You can watch the debate here: “Debating the Trump Presidency” with Charles Kesler and Jonah Goldberg Preview Open
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There is an old saying that you should never talk religion or politics with your relatives because those topics are so divisive. Well, let me tell you. Yesterday evening my Mom called me from California. My Mom has been on the Left for at least the last 10 years and she has never been an […]
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Glenn Loury is interesting to listen to, especially when he converses with his pal, John McWhorter. In this video, Loury talks Affirmative Action and Brett Kavanaugh with Amy Wax. Wax calls herself a Republican in name only, but defends Kavanaugh and hopes that Mitch McConnell will put an end to this fiasco. Loury says that […]
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If you thought that Americans could not get any fatter, you were wrong. There are now 7 states where 35 percent of the adult population has a Body Mass Index of 30 or higher. I know that many will say, “Well, on that basis, LeBron James would be considered obese.” Yes, but are we to […]
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Low carb, high fat diets are very much the rage these days. A few weeks ago I found that an old classmate of mine whom I knew back in sixth grade had been diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and she adopted a ketogenic diet to treat the disease. What is a ketogenic diet? It’s […]
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One topic that is being talked about often among the intellectual dark web is the relationship between religion and morality. Ben Shapiro argues that non-religious morality can only be developed to a limited extent. Sam Harris argues that we can derive our morality without reference to a deity or a Holy book. The discussion of […]
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One is reminded of the movie “Weekend At Bernie’s,” where people feel the need to pretend that their employer is still alive. We have become accustomed to members of Trump’s cabinet contradicting the person they work for. Ramesh Ponnuru provides some examples in his column titled, Trump Seems Barely In Charge of His Own Administration: […]
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Recently I listened to the Remnant podcast hosted by Jonah Goldberg with Charles C. W. Cooke as the guest. They discussed several very interesting issues, including Brexit and the debates within the conservative community regarding support for Donald Trump. But they also discussed whether drugs should be legalized. Jonah Goldberg is very skeptical of the […]
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There is a lot of justifiable concern about Islam in the United Kingdom and other western democracies. Terror attacks, no-go areas and restrictions on speech are concerns of lots of people. Douglas Murray has recently wrote a book (I have not read it at the time of this writing) titled, “The Strange Death of Europe.” […]
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William F. Buckley Jr. was a strong Catholic and probably the most influential conservative of his generation. Recently, Dennis Prager wrote a column titled, Conservatives, too, undergo secular indoctrination. In that column Prager wrote in American terms, the American conservative I most admired, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder and publisher of National Review, was […]
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The Left’s reaction to the Kennedy retirement from the US Supreme Court and the Kavanaugh nomination has not be relaxed. Some law professors are advocating that the next time the Democrats win control over Congress and the White House, the number of seats on the US Supreme Court should be expanded from 9 to 15. […]
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A few months ago I became familiar with a group called Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA), founded by Mohammad Syed and Sarah Haider. Both of them had the same story. They lost their faith in Islam, feared telling their family or friends about their apostasy, but wondered if there were others in the same situation. […]
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It’s starting to look like the GOP has secured a majority of the US Supreme Court for, perhaps, another generation. The Democrats have lost their minds and are talking about things like court packing, raising the number of US Supreme Court justices from 9 to 15. Not now. This would wait until they secure the […]
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There is a lot of concern on the Left in the aftermath of Anthony Kennedy’s announcement that he will retire from the US Supreme Court once a replacement is confirmed. In fact, “a lot of concern” is an understatement. If you watch this video of Chris Matthews discussing the Supreme Court vacancy you might notice […]
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