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Recently I pointed out the inanity of claiming that God saved the plane that recently crash-landed in the Hudson. Why did God allow the plane to go down in the first place, and why does God allow others to die horrible deaths in crashes?
I got my answer from an anonymous poster in the comments:
The answer [...]

Recently I received a bizarre e-mail stating: “Obama will soon discover that government cannot legalize everything that the Bible condemns and then ask for God to bless America. Even though Obama is clever at wrapping himself with religiosity, his presidency could very well lead Americans toward joining European secularism.”
I take this to mean that the [...]

“[Former New Life Church pastor Ted] Haggard said that as a Christian, he believed his faith could make him a new man. He was seeking a miracle, said Haggard, who described himself as ‘not gay’ but a ‘heterosexual with issues’ who was deeply in love with his wife.”
Obviously I do not wish to speculate whether [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J. D., M.P.A.
Honorable friends:
Global warming does indeed seem to be a pervasive problem. Yesterday it plagued me in my morning paper, harangued me from radio and television broadcasts, and even managed to insinuate itself into the conversation of irksome social acquaintances. Although I have become accustomed to bad policy masquerading as good [...]

Towhhall.com, the “conservative” forum, seems to spend about equal time promoting religion and beating up Democrats. Which says a lot about why the conservative movement today is in disarray, and why Democrats rule the nation and Colorado. But Townhall does provide grist for the blog. Today Bill Murchison argues:
It’s hard, with it all, to see [...]

Douglas Smith complains that Barack Obama has moved to “repeal by executive order the prohibition on using scarce federal dollars to fund groups that perform or promote abortions in foreign countries, otherwise known as the Mexico City Policy.”
I quite agree that the United States government should not be subsidizing abortions internationally, or at home. But [...]

By Julian Dunraven, J.D., M.P.A.
Honorable friends:
Last month I wrote that the bailout total, which has now reached more than $8.5 trillion, with another $850 billion stimulus to come this year, will eventually force us into dangerous levels of inflation. I thank the Bangor Daily News and Bridget Johnson at The Rocky Mountain News for picking [...]

Burt Prelutsky writes:
Human beings like to believe they’re totally rational creatures. To take an extreme example, atheists are convinced they can prove that God doesn’t exist. This is a particularly fascinating phenomenon because among those who believed in God’s existence are such brainy people as Albert Einstein, Rene Descartes, Albert Schweitzer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johann [...]

This analysis from the March, 1962 Objectivist Newsletter reads like a prophesy of the 2008 election, in which John McCain selected Sarah Palin to appease religious conservatives. Or a prediction of the Bush presidency:
The implications to tying capitalism to faith have come nakedly into the open in the explicit irrationalism of many “conservative” groups. Intending [...]