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Islamic jihadists insane

Allahu akbar! (God is great)Screams by Muslim terrorists during their deadly homage to Allah.Surely it is a great god that applauds the massacre of Charlie Hebdo staffers at the French house of...

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God did not die. God was a lie.

From Lucretius in Roman times to today’s books, “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins and “The End of Faith” by Sam Harris, thinkers and writers have tried to answer the greatest intellectual question:...

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Francis: ‘like any old pope”

 Pope Francis talks and acts a good game. He’s open, friendly, accessible, frank, folksy, down-to-earth, likeable and humble.A cover story by Time magazine named him “man of the year” even though he...

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Orwell's '1984' as No. 86? Outrageous.

 My contempt for academia increases with every professor’s book I read. Writing by professors is long-winded and pedantic. The professoriate never uses simple words, preferring important-sounding words...

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President Obama continues to push two bad ideas but did veto

First bad idea. Obama pushes the main mission of his presidency: perpetual war. Asking Congress to approve the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), he trips over his own lofty rhetoric as he...

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