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I am beginning to notice a disturbing pattern
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Aziz Poonawalla
There’s something strange going on… Recall that at the height of the health reform fight, after Senator Brown was elected in MA and the Democrats looked like they were on the verge of total failure. It looked like Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement would indeed be his Waterloo… and then, Anthem Blue Cross raised rates…
Noah’s Ark found again
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Aziz Poonawalla
Take this one with a grain of salt – a team of Turkish and Chinese evangelicals have claimed to find the remains of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey. On Tuesday, a group of Asian Christian evangelicals held a press conference in Turkey to announce they were “99.9 per cent” sure they’d found the…
Obama hosts muslim business summit
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Aziz Poonawalla
Everyone knew about President Obama’s nuclear summit a couple of weeks ago – arguably the most important, if characteristically boring, contribution to world peace in the past 30 years. But there was another summit this week that didn’t get anywhere near the same attention – The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, which was a promise to…
Conservatism’s shari’a, liberalism’s ijtihad
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Aziz Poonawalla
An interesting meta-debate by intellectual conservatives over conservatism’s future is playing out. It started with David Frum’s Waterloo essay, which led to his political excommunication. Julian Sanchez observed that this represented an epistemic closing of the conservative mind, a thesis that was validated by the retribution visited upon Jim Manzi for daring to suggest that…
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