I recently picked up Vincent Bugliosi’s book arguing against the conspiracy theories around the JFK assassination, titled Four Days in November. It’s over 600 pages with index and endnotes, making it a hefty trade paperback and keeping it about equal with Gerald Posner’s Case Closed.
Of course, Four Days is really just a [...]
Over at the Psychology Today blog, The Scientific Fundamentalist, Satoshi Kanazawa is getting a lot of attention for a really odd argument. The title basically sums it up, “If Barack Obama Is Christian, Michael Jackson Was White.”
Honestly, not much good can follow a title like that, but let’s move on. Kanazawa, an evolutionary [...]
Fox News is either evil or stupid for not mentioning that Alwaleed bin Talal is News Corp.’s largest shareholder:
The Stewart & Oliver exchange at the end is one of the best I’ve seen yet.
By Daniel Florien on August 13, 2010 in Christianity, Current Events, Islam, Politics, Religion, Videos.Jon nails it as usual.
An interesting story on the BBC; about a Muslim cleric, Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, who has issued an unequivocal 600 page Fatwah against terrorism, and who runs a sort of anti-terrorism Summer school for young Muslims.
Some of the arguments he uses are quite weak, being based on a combination of scripture and some fairly torturous [...]
Thank you all for the warm welcome. I had two ideas for posts to start off, one a bit less controversial than the other; I decided to go with the easier one first.
There have been many words aired over the proposed Cordoba Center in Manhattan, presumably because of its proximity to the World Trade Center [...]
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