A new study analyzing groupthink has raised the interesting possibility that social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are destroying people’s capacity to think analytically. This is distinct from similar studies that claim that Google, and the internet at large, have destroyed people’s ability to recall information. In case you were wondering, the study worked […]
Continue reading →Last night, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham the Creation Man debated the question, “Is creationism a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?” I was happy the “great creationism debate” happened, but I have mixed feelings about how it turned out. ((Disclaimer: The following article is long, and it contains lots […]
Continue reading →Democrats are outraged with the National Republican Congressional Committee for creating “trick” websites that are fooling Democrat-leaning low-information voters into financially supporting Republicans. The NRCC has set up a number of sites that look like pro-Democrat fundraising sites, except for one crucial word. For instance, a website for Florida Democrat Alex Sink has a smiling […]
Continue reading →Are leftists really pro-choice? They certainly tell us so often enough. (Methinks the lady doth protest too much…) But as soon as anybody else tries to make a choice they don’t like … Well, they immediately start laying down unilateral standards of conformity. A case in point. The state of Indiana now has a state-wide […]
Continue reading →Super Bowl ads usually stir up controversy the way the Grammy’s always do: with decency-insulting displays of poor taste. Not this year (aside from the halftime show, anyway). Take for instance the Coca-Cola commercial that won the award for “Super Bowl XLVIII’s Most Controversial Ad.” Yawn. I can’t believe people were upset over this one. […]
Continue reading →If you have ever been in a debate about socialism, you are bound to hear an argument somewhere along these lines: “Socialism works in Norway. So socialism can work here.” I’m sick of hearing it for a number of reasons. Most of the American leftists who make the “look-at-Norway-see-socialism-works” argument have major problems with the […]
Continue reading →Black student groups at the University of Minnesota want the campus police to stop using racial suspect descriptions in their campus crime alerts. A group (including members from the African American and African Studies department, Black Faculty and Staff Association, Black Graduate and Professional Student Association, Black Men’s Forum, Black Student Union and Huntley House […]
Continue reading →It’s very important for young people to learn about real life as soon as possible. Back in the day, that meant learning how to work hard, how to succeed, how to manage finances… you know—how to become an entrepreneur, a business owner, an inventor, or the like. These days, teaching children about the real world […]
Continue reading →In 2013, Cheerio’s ran an ad for their cereal featuring a biracial family. When the commercial was posted to YouTube, it got flamed almost immediately by an assortment of gollums and trolls—who apparently have nothing at all to do but post inflammatory comments on websites. We have a few of those on this site actually. […]
Continue reading →G. K. Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy: Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin—a fact as practical as potatoes. . . . Certain new theologians dispute original […]
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