Archive for the ‘Deep Thoughts’ Category

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 [...]

Saturday, August 14th, 2010 at 18:12 | 1 comment

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 [...]

Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 21:41 | 1 comment
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 21:39 | 2 comments
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 14:41 | 0 comments

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 [...]

Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 11:05 | 4 comments

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 [...]

Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 23:00 | 11 comments
Saturday, May 29th, 2010 at 13:50 | 8 comments
Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 12:03 | 0 comments

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Monday, May 17th, 2010 at 08:46 | 2 comments
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at 18:07 | 0 comments