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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

18-Year-Old Beats, Rapes 85-Year-Old Nun Who Was ‘Advocate of Nonviolence’

What a monster: A nun who police in Beaver County said was raped and beaten so badly that her jaw was dislocated and she was unable to speak to police at the scene was expected to be released soon from the hospital. The Sisters of St. Joseph in Baden called the 85-year-old retired nun “a […]

A ‘Gay App’ for 12-Year-Olds, and Hey, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Creeptastic software: Some very clever Harvard types (are there any other kind?) believe that, when it comes to apps, the gay community hasn’t offered the full bloom of its most tasteful side. So they’ve created Distinc.tt. This, they claim, is “the only gay social app approved by the iTunes store for 12-year-olds and older.” . […]

America-Hating Commie Punk Wanted to Kill Librarian, Had Molotov Cocktails

Because he got kicked off the debate team: Tracy Murphy worked as the librarian at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado but it was his role as the adult adviser for the speech and debate team that led to him being the target of gunman Karl Pierson’s rage. Mr Murphy allegedly demoted Pierson or kicked […]

The Atheist Creep Lawrence Krauss

Professor Lawrence Krauss on Australian TV, February 2013. “Science is based on telling the truth, which is a really important ethical boundary. It’s one that I don’t think religion shares, in fact. . . . I think that science can offer a better world.” — Lawrence Krauss “Jen McCreight, who describes herself as ‘a liberal, […]

Thanks to the Reader Who Bought the LG Electronics 32-Inch LED TV from Amazon

  Is anyone else old enough to remember when a 24-inch TV screen was considered top-of-the-line? Out of curiosity, I took a measuring tape to the home entertainment station in my office (purchased circa 2007) and found that the space for the TV measures 27 inches across. Digital technology has made rapid advances in recent […]

Obama’s Millionaire ‘Green’ Ambassador to Finland Mocks Critics in Holiday Card

Bruce Oreck is a lawyer who got rich from his family’s famous vacuum cleaner business. He is an environmentalist who gave about a quarter-million to Democrats in the past two decades and who “bundled” about a half-million in contributions to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Oreck was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Finland: In 2003, Ambassador […]

Baseball Plans to Ban … Baseball?

The collision at home plate between a runner trying to score and a catcher trying to make the tag — dude, that’s baseball. So the news that Major League Baseball is planning to ban home plate collisions has sparked outrage from fans. Pete Da Tech Guy provides a sample of the reaction and asks: “Hey, […]

Family Values as a Math Problem

While reading Professor William Jacobson’s take on the Utah polygamy decision, I noticed that in the comments, someone had linked a Census Bureau report that included this odd sentence: The proportion of one-person households increased by 10 percentage points between 1970 and 2012, from 17 percent to 27 percent. Uh, no: The proper way to […]

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