Michael Totten: The Bin Ladens of the Balkans - Part 1.

Global Warming as Mass Neurosis:

If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn’t evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn’t mean God doesn’t exist, or that global warming isn’t happening. It does mean it isn’t science.

Excellent piece.  Read it all.

@ Volokh Conspiracy: Jesse Helms did not lead “the rise of the modern conservative movement.”

Hey, they’ve made a living exploiting different strands of Christianity. Is it any surprise to see them working together to exploit a new religion? Of course not. In fact, the climate change religion looks to be even more lucrative than anything they’ve exploited before.

While Reverend Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson have different views on most issues, when it comes to the urgency of protecting the planet, they agree.

“I am honored that Al Gore asked me to be a part of this campaign urging people to take care of the planet,” Robertson said on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “It’s just common sense that we ought to be good stewards of the environment and do everything within our power to protect this fragile planet that we all live on.”

At the taping of this clip on Virginia Beach, the two joked and prayed together. If these polar opposites can come together on this important and moral issue, why can’t you?

This guy is an asshole.  Just look at him.

Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK’s top judge

Legal Jihad

Currently reading “The Bible from Cover to Cover” by Peter J. Brancazio, Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College (CUNY).   Very readable — very rewarding.  Highly recommended.

A threat to the secular mind…behold, PLANET GREEN!

Richard Adams has an interesting take on environmentalism as religion (scientists and socialists using history to predict the future — while abandoning the scientific method in the process).

“There are a number of mini-stories within the Father Pfleger controversy.“

Today is Rachel Carson’s birthday.  May her destructive junk science be noted in history.

We watched this thoughtful lecture last night from Ken Miller on Intelligent Design.  On one hand, I can’t believe people are still pushing creationism (under a new name, ID). On the other, the politicization of science encourages this.

There was one point in the question and answer session where an old communist “World Can’t Wait” moonbat tries to attack the political right to score some cheap points, trying to liken America today to 1933 Germany. Ken Miller bats him right back down with perhaps his best thoughts of the lecture.

When Bill O’Reilly (and his copycats) pronounce “Secular Progressives” as the enemy, it is extremely damaging to the cause of freedom. They are literally handing over the province of science to the political left and the Al Gore’s of the world couldn’t be happier. There is a symbiotic parasitic relationship between the exploitative left and the religious right that often becomes clear, especially in lectures like this one. They both need each other to survive and together they do all too much damage.

Study Says Global Warming Not Worsening Hurricanes

Do you think Al Gore will change the cover art on “An Inconvenient Truth?”

Obvious: Einstein was not religious.

Truthers promise to deep-six the libertarian party in 2008.

At Michael Totten:

Obama’s language is derived from those corners of the left that claim Hezbollah is only interested in winning the Shia a larger share of the political process. Never mind the guns, it’s essentially a social welfare movement, with schools and clinics! – and its own foreign policy, intelligence services and terror apparatus, used at the regional, international and now domestic level. But the solution, says, Obama, channeling the man he fired for talking to Hamas, is diplomacy.

What happens when doomsday never actually occurs?

“A far cry from Title IX”

Winston meets Mark Steyn in Toronto (with some neat pictures) and recounts an awkward interview performed by the head of Indigo/Chapters books.

Michael Totten on Kosovar Muslims

Teen’s plot to kill Jesus thwarted.

Ben Stein has gone completely nuts.

A comprehensive Jeremiah Wright roundup at Instapundit.  Every link in the roundup is worth reading.

Some Sunday thoughts on how far-off future generations will look at evolution.

I’ve been watching this Weather Underground documentary throughout the day today. Seeing these 60’s radicals kindles thoughts about how sad, pathetic, and transparent the “new left” of the 60’s and 70’s really was. I keep asking myself — how did anyone fall for it all?

I could only shake my head while watching the former Weathermen, now adultvs, try to justify the inexcusable behavior of their childhood and seeing how pathetically they gave up once it stopped being fun (one loser was lonely and missed his girlfriend — well duh!).

Two things still confuse me (I was born in 1978). One, how did the movement become so cheap-feeling so quickly (”rad” slogans everywhere, the pathetic drug and sex culture, the hero-worship of the drug-addled mind)? Two, what sort of moral void in the general culture must have existed for unhinged post-modernism to be so completely unleashed on American society? Certainly, the decline of Christianity in these raving communists’ lives did not push aside their attraction to religion - if anything, they were seeking a religion more stridently than their parents, whom they had to despise inately. Whether this documentary understands it or not, it hammers home the blatent religiousness of the entire 60’s new left movement.

Looking back to these days and looking at where we are today — it seems American culture has evolved significantly for the better. The moral foundation for individual rights seems more solid today than it was back then. That foundation is under serious attack (and the new left still exerts massive power, especially through our public institutions) but I feel safe declaring that the good guys have won more battles than they’ve lost since the end of the 60s.

Side note: Kejda — finish your book on the new left. Maybe this summer, eh?

Sorting out the Mormon mess in Texas — with DNA.

RageBoy copy cat with a twist? Ah all these RageBoys with their religions they go nuts over!

This is how the religious left sees people who disagree. A poorly done satire - “F*ck the Earth Day”

But he is a Christian, so it must be cool, right?

Yup, Kejda’s essay is looking more important every day.

The sign in front of a small church in a small town is causing a big controversy in Jonesville, S.C.

Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.

It reads: “Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?”

DUMB.

I think my mom was disappointed I didn’t see the pope while he was here in New York.

Instapundit lets his thoughts be known (through someone else’s quote, albeit) regarding the recently flared up Creationism/ID/Evolution debate. I agree with this sentiment as well.

Charles seems to be taunting the creationists who frequent LGF.

Interesting discussion over at LGF regarding Ben Stein’s intelligent design documentary. The passions are out and a lot of people are sadly attacking Zombie.

My thoughts:

1) We can create “Darwinism” in a bottle. Evolution is real and can be empirically proven.

2) Also, the creationists who push the earth is 6000 years old nonsense are “truthers” of a different species. Not all intelligent design folks believe in this crazy notion.

3) There is a beauty and mystical quality to life, from human consciousness down to the makeup of our very DNA. The fact that evolution is real does not prove or disprove the notion of God or even if there may be some sort of greater intelligence across the universe. What we can seek to discover are the laws of nature, unlocking new mysteries and debunking bad science and religious dogma along the way. However, faith as a means of discovering truth has no place in the classroom.

4) I am looking forward to seeing Stein’s documentary myself. I’ve got a feeling he is going to make a lot of money with this one.

UPDATE: Penn & Teller’s take: