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 [Dailyhowler.com] Daily Howler: Koppel makes a joke of your interests when he pals ...: Andrew Sullivan was at one time was an astute critic of media bias. Today he gives a huge thumbs-up to the ABC Nightline report which attempted to debunk the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on the matter of Kerry's Silver Star...Does anyone have the heart to tell Andrew that the Swift Boat version that ABC rebutted was based almost entirely on the description of the incident given by Kerry and his crew to the Boston Globe in 2003? Does Andrew know that the Boston Globe version is quite similar to the account presented in Brinkley's Tour of Duty?

 [Brothersjudd.com] BrothersJudd Blog: April 2004 Archives: Yet he is shoveling money to U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories as if the Soviet Union still existed and the Cold War still raged.These articles must just write themselves: we spend lots of money on something useless; any idiot should realize that it's useless; hey, look, isn't it ironic that we're doing things we don't want other nations doing. The rebuttals flow just as easily: this is less than three-tenths of one percent of the federal budget; reasonable people can disagree about whether today's world presents attractive targets for nuclear weapons; and most Americans insist on the admittedly parochial distinction between Libya, Iraq and North Korea, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, us.

 [Rerum-novarum.blogspot.com] Rerum Novarum: :: Why I Smoke a Pipe - Jeff Culbreath {Note: As one who enjoys quality cigars, I find the principles outlined in Jeff's essay to be applicable to handmade cigars also -ISM} [>>>]

[Stcynic.com] Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Brian Leiter vs the National ...: Leiter is correct when he says that ID proponents are peddling nonsense. He is correct when he says that VanDyke's book note in the Harvard Law Review was based on ignorance of the subject matter and read more like a fawning press release from the Discovery Institute than like a serious book review. Leiter is correct that the Discovery Institute is little more than "the public relations arm of the creationist movement", repackaging the same old nonsense in fancy-sounding terminology, distorting the scientific literature to make it appear as supporting them, and failing to publish anything like a testable model that explains the evidence.

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