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Guest Post: ‘The Commonweal’ by Linda Calhoun

Heather Hastie — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:47:58 +0000

Virginia Kruta (left), an associate editor for the conservative Daily Caller site. wrote an article last week about attending a Democrat rally. Kruta couldn’t believe what she was hearing. All these people thought the commonweal should be expanded to cover all sorts of outrageous things. Healthcare for all, for example, was a good idea! The […]

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Guest Post: ‘Winning Elections’ by Linda Calhoun

Heather Hastie — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 02:24:55 +0000

Winning Elections by Linda Calhoun A few months ago I went back and reread the GOPAC memo, written in 1993 by then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. It addressed “the way to win elections”. In a nutshell, it advised candidates and their handlers to use pejorative adjectives to describe their opponents, and soaring, “patriotic” […]

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Gad Saad in discussion with Nick Cohen: Guest Post by Ken

Heather Hastie — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 04:48:42 +0000

Regular reader and commenter Ken posted the video below in the comments of an old post a few days ago. It’s one that engendered a lot of discussion and I felt that it needed a post of its own. I was busy writing my post on China, North Korea, and Taiwan at the time, so […]

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Guest Post: Bikini vs Burqa by Amy Carparelli

Heather Hastie — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:59:24 +0000

Recently, European reader and science communicator Amy Carparelli came across an article entitled Burka Vs Bikini – The Debauchery Of American Womanhood by Henry Makow (PhD). Makow’s conclusions about why women wear bikinis are incredibly simplistic. An example of his writing: I am not an expert on the condition of Muslim women and I love […]

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Paxton Marshall Critiques Sam Harris’s “Sleepwalking Towards Armageddon”

Heather Hastie — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:32:54 +0000

Regular readers will know that one of the most frequent commenters here is Paxton Marshall, a retired professor, most recently of the University of Virginia. He and I (and other commenters) disagree a lot, and the topic of that disagreement has often been the opinions of Sam Harris. Nevertheless, his comments are always welcome and […]

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