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The Prodigal Son

An unlikeable father who takes his sons for granted, lies to them, and  forgets them when the New Shiny comes along. Is it any wonder the more  dutiful son resents this and the less dutiful ran away?...

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Chiune Sugihara: A hero at a desk

This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18...

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Why on Earth does anyone think Barrack Obama is left wing and/or liberal?

The American president strikes me as being an authoritarian war-monger. And, strangely, he doesn’t get much criticism for this. Even the extra-judicial killing of US citizens (including at least one...

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No, I’m not going to be polite about it

And I see no reason why I should be. Many many people have pointed out that a call for politeness, for some kind of superficial niceness, actually rarely serves to make the world a better place, or to...

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Google Glass: Privacy, Surveillance, Technology, Data

Google’s new product, Glass, will enable secret video recording. Now pretend you don’t know a single person who wears Google Glass… and take a walk outside. Anywhere you go in public – any store, any...

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NOM: Willing, deliberate liars

The National Organization for Marriage has been spreading a host of falsehoods about research into same-sex parenting. Every so I often I lob a tweet about this to Thomas Peters, NOM’s Communications...

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Christian Horror Films: Horrific Christian Culture?

Any time people get worked up about a menace they believe in but can’t actually see – demons, Commies, jihadis, hordes of hoodie-wearing thugs — they’re likely to take it out on the weakest and most...

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“my rights end where yours begin”

That’s the whole conundrum of invoking God as the singular rationale for or against public policy—God says lots of different things to lots of different people, and all of them think that they’re...

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10 years of pre-Trib porno

Fred Clarke has been writing about the awful phenomenon that is the Left Behind books for ten years now. Ten years! That’s … kind of magnificent, actually. I think the apocryphal Donny is still my...

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“treating other people with respect”

I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. — Neil Gaiman

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