Obama Is Wrong – Sam Harris After weeks of dodging the issue, at a White House Ramadan dinner Friday night, President Obama came out in support of Park51, the planned Muslim community center and mosque two blocks away from the World Trade Center site. While the project may represent religious tolerance, it also highlights the [...]

A Message to Those Praying for Christopher Hitchens On behalf of Christopher Hitchens, who thinks all of this skydaddy talk is ridiculous, thanks to all of you who wrote in to Goldblog to report that they would be praying for him as he undergoes treatment for esophageal cancer (you can hear him talk about his [...]

There is No God (And You Know It) by Sam Harris Somewhere in the world a man has abducted a little girl. Soon he will rape, torture, and kill her. If an atrocity of this kind not occurring at precisely this moment, it will happen in a few hours, or days at most. Such is [...]

Israel and Turkey: It’s Complicated I hope that by now the state of Israel regrets its past collaboration with some of the worst elements in modern Turkey. It’s not so long since American Jewish lobby groups, and reportedly even the Israeli ambassador in Washington, were successfully lobbying Congress to vote down the resolution condemning the [...]

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