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Daily Archives: August 15, 2013
Can Republicans Get More Than 60% of the White Vote?
Political scientist Ruy Teixeira is skeptical of the “maximize the white vote” strategy that some Republicans are advocating for the next couple of election cycles: White voters are likely to become less, not more, conservative over time, presenting a huge obstacle … Continue reading
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Tagged America, class, evolution, hillary clinton, race, Republicans
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Bill de Blasio for NY Mayor
A great ad made by his son, Dante. Bill de Blasio, who is white, has a black wife and two children by her. His wife, before she married him, was a lesbian. How cool is that? __________ Here’s a bit from … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill de Blasio, family, hillary clinton, marriage, new york, Politics
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Something Good About Christian Belief
One good thing about God belief of the Christian variety (if you can swing it) is that it inoculates you from other forms of irrationality. A nonbeliever in God is more prone to, say, succumbing to the delusions of Marxism … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Christianity, critical thinking, God, Jesus, philosophy, psychology, reason
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A Reason to Believe Evolution is True
Goose bumps. Here’s Harvard’s Steven Pinker: Our own bodies are riddled with quirks that no competent engineer would have planned but that disclose a history of trial-and-error tinkering: a retina installed backward, a seminal duct that hooks over the ureter like a … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, biology, Darwin, evolution, goose bumps, science
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Prometheus Unbound 