Big discovery! Sexy women distract men!: “Catching sight of a pretty woman really is enough to throw a man’s decision-making skills into disarray, a study suggests. The more testosterone he has, the stronger the effect, according to work by Belgian researchers. Men about to play a financial game were shown images of sexy women...
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There was once a Greek philosopher named Cratylus that refused to speak but rather wiggled his finger in response to a question because he believed things were in such a state of change and flux that by the time he responded the answer would be linguistically meaningless. In the postmodernist rush to abolish all...
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There was once a Greek philosopher named Cratylus that refused to speak but rather wiggled his finger in response to a question because he believed things were in such a state of change and flux that by the time he responded the answer would be linguistically meaningless. In the postmodernist rush to abolish all...
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In an interesting article posted a Christianity Today, Mark Dever examines growing opposition within the Evangelical community to the substitionary atonement, meaning the death of Christ upon the cross for the fulfillment of our sins. Thinking they know more than God now, a number of theologians oppose the Atonement as a barbaric holdover from...
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In an interesting article posted a Christianity Today, Mark Dever examines growing opposition within the Evangelical community to the substitionary atonement, meaning the death of Christ upon the cross for the fulfillment of our sins. Thinking they know more than God now, a number of theologians oppose the Atonement as a barbaric holdover from...
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The Duke Rape Case: The Truth About Interracial Rape
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The Duke University rape case is getting more media attention than the war on Iraq, the Iran nuclear threat and even the baseball steroid scandal. It’s even getting as much media attention as Tom Cruise’s newborn. It’s a huge story not because it’s about a vicious, brutal rape — those...
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, known as Welfare Reform, has been cheered as a stunning achievement of the Republican Congress and its Contract With America. The law helped to move millions of welfare recipients out of dependency and into productive jobs, but its unintended consequences brought many thousands of “never...
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Earlier this afternoon, while exiting the freeway, I noticed a man standing at the base of the off-ramp holding a sign. I thought it was the usual “will work for food” or something similar, but as I got closer, I could see it read “need gas”. Fighting the temptation to go to the grocery...
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By Denise Noe I Was A Teenage Werewolf is a title that grabs. Many stay up late to watch the old movie expecting something funny and special and are disappointed to see a run-of-the-mill horror flick. Yet the kinky title conveys a deep truth. “A Teenage Werewolf” is almost an oxymoron for a werewolf...
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SOME ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BACKGROUND An Oregon reader responds to my recent mention of an NYT article about illegal immigrants being pulled up by local rather than Federal police and then being handed over to immigration authorities: “Back in the seventies and eighties I would get calls, usually in the middle of the night, to...
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SOME ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BACKGROUND An Oregon reader responds to my recent mention of an NYT article about illegal immigrants being pulled up by local rather than Federal police and then being handed over to immigration authorities: “Back in the seventies and eighties I would get calls, usually in the middle of the night, to...
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By and large, I think it went well. There is a marked difference between the people that attended and those who tend to write in or run off their mouth on the internet, and that was an unexpected surprise. One such comment from someone not even in the state any more was: This is...
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Life occurred at the earliest possible moment in the history of Earth. Clearly, there was not enough time for chemical evolution in the primordial soup to self organize/randomly organize or whatever the evolutionary flavor of the month seems to be. Dan
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Twelve years after “welfare reformâ€ÂÂ, marriage is still in the emergency room, father-absence is still the greatest problem we face, and federal government is more aggressive than ever entitling illegitimacy at the direct expense of marriage. Feminists and lawyer-politicians in both political parties have collaborated for the past 45 years to get what they...
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Here’s a good example of the kind of leadership that we could be getting more of if only the Democrats were in power. In an address before The Northern Nevada Faith-Based Services Summit, Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced to his audience, the world, Allah and everybody that the U.S. has no military option in...
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Here’s a good example of the kind of leadership that we could be getting more of if only the Democrats were in power. In an address before The Northern Nevada Faith-Based Services Summit, Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced to his audience, the world, Allah and everybody that the U.S. has no military option in...
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Just in case you were still enough of a sucker to believe that the Palestinan Authority is not actually a terrorist regime, we have this lovely story about a high level terrorist being appointed to run the Palestinian Authority security forces. Which makes sense, because the PA security forces are loaded with “former” terrorists from...
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I know physicians in Canada who tell me that stories like this one about how long it can take to receive medical care in the socialized health care system there is all just par for the course. Now, imagine you’re this woman with cancer. You don’t know if you have terminal cancer or not....
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Al Gore thinks we’re dooming our planet. Specifically, he thinks the United States is dooming our planet. Gore has a movie coming out next month, entitled “An Inconvenient Truth”. Gore has switched from politician to uber-weatherman, and we all know how accurate weathermen can be — especially ones who are politicians. Check out “Al...
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