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I have had the privilege of working in the healthcare industry since 1983, joining my first biotechnology startup company in 1985. Just like physics had many of its heady years in the early part of the 20th century, the last 30 years have been similarly exciting times in biology. And there is no end in…
The Wall Street Journal published an adaptation from a recent speech by Fouad Ajami about his four week trip to various spots around the Middle East. “George W. Bush has unleashed a tsunami on this region,” a shrewd Kuwaiti merchant who knows the way of his world said to me… To venture into the Arab…
Pew has come out with a new poll in which it developed some new and interesting political typologies. If you want to find out what kind of “political animal” you are, then go here and take the survey. A few of the dual statements with which you are supposed to agree or disagree seemed to…
Newsweek finally fully retracted its story, and the libertarian uber-linker Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) offered this own opinion regarding liberal hypocrisy and their manufactured outrage over this now-false abridgement of religious rights (and the more general Guantanamo “torture” charges) I want to add that I don’t think there’s anything immoral about flushing a Koran (or a…
From the OpinionJournal.com, offered without comment: Liberal Fundamentalism Who are the intolerant extremists? Monday, May 16, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT We have been following the extensive theological commentary in the press on the subject of politics and religion in the current presidential campaign. It might not otherwise have occurred to us that so many editorialists…
Over at Spinning Clio, I’ve written a longish piece (“Christianity as a ‘Founding Religion’ Disavowed: What DID the 1796 Treaty with Tripoli Say (and when did it say it)?” that investigates the historical interpretation of a rather obscure treaty that has been used to buttress the arguments of many secularists and others who seek to…
There is an excellent posting on Captain’s Quarters about Janice Rogers Brown, one of the court nominees being filibustered by Senate Democrats, that references this Sacramento Bee editorial written by a liberal who, among other things, said: I know Janice Rogers Brown, and she knows me, but we’re not friends. The associate justice of the…
The two local newspapers published last Thursday a new letter to the editor I wrote about the ongoing NEA teachers’ union contract dispute in East Greenwich. The editorial begins: The issues of retroactive pay and “work-to-rule” are at the heart of the dispute in the East Greenwich NEA teachers union contract dispute. The union expects…
I have always failed to understand why our society pays so much attention to the opinions of Hollywood celebrities, as if they have any ability to offer rich insights into the issues of life. This opinion was reinforced this morning by two separate news articles about Brad Pitt, both coming from the same interview: In…
Stephen Green of Vodkapundit offers a striking counter-argument to Pat Buchanan’s editorial entitled “Was World War II worth it?”: It took 40 years, but today Pat Buchanan hit bottom on the slippery slope from Young Turk conservative columnist to Nazi Apologist troglodyte… Shame on Buchanan. We must never let the evil of World War II…