Stephen Schwartz today: The human, financial, and technological resources of Al-Qaida have diminished immensely since 9/11: it lost its Afghan base and then plunged into the Iraqi bloodbath, in which it is being defeated. Rather than a second Vietnam for the U.S. – comparing two wars that really have almost nothing in common – Iraq… Continue reading

More depressing evidence of Christian documentary filmmakers who feel no need to be honest about what they are doing when they approach prospective interviewees to be in their films.

Tom Bethell is at it again. If you want a snap-shot of just how out-of-touch conservative journalists of the grizzled generation of Bethell, Buckley and Buchanan truly are about biological science in general, read Jeffrey Shalit: Bethell tells us that “Structures or signals of specified complexity permit an inference to design without any necessary recourse… Continue reading

Friday dose of Krauthammer: The critics at home, echoing the Shiite sectarians in Baghdad, complain that an essential part of this strategy — the “20 percent solution” that allows former-insurgent Sunnis to organize and arm themselves — is just setting Iraq up for a greater civil war. But this assumes that a Shiite government in… Continue reading

Great new science blog, Quintessence of Dust, by Stephen Matheson, an associate professor of biology at Calvin College in Michigan (critic of intelligent design arguments and a big Shakespeare fan). I think it gets much worse than that for anti-evolution thinkers. I regularly see certain old-earth creationists (e.g. the folks at Reasons To Believe) and… Continue reading