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  • Reconsidering the Inquisition

    A columnist named Vox Day wrote an excellent piece in which he puts the Spanish Inquisition in perspective.   Day, and intelligent man who has obviously done his homework (I can’t say much for his haircut, though), starts out:

  • The Coming Global Cooling

    By Selwyn Duke When I was a lad in primary school, we were warned of climate change. It was a tad scary, too, as the prospect of becoming an ice sickle in a frozen wasteland wasn’t very appealing. Hey, we wanted to be able to go outside and sometimes play with balls not made out…

  • John McManus Piece: Trashing McCarthy Becomes a Lot More Difficult

    Writer John McManus has a terrific piece about who is perhaps the most unfairly maligned man in American history, Joe McCarthy.  McManus makes the case that McCarthy was correct: There was communist infiltration in the U.S. government in the 1950s.  And, of course, not only is this true, but now those individuals get to run…