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The random Friday question returns courtesy of Doug: I wonder if free will is hereditary. Ok, it isn’t exactly a question but it feels like a question.

Here it is, the definitive way to choose your presidential candidate – a policy-based survey that matches up your views of how the world should be run with what the candidates are saying. Do you think anyone will end up being aligned with Mike Gravel or Duncan Hunter?

An interesting attack on the rash of militant-atheist authored books in the LA Times: Voltaire and his colleagues attacked the dominant values of their day, at great risk to themselves. By almost comical contrast, the new anti-religionists are safely needling the dominant liberal culture’s favorite bete noire. They are publishing their books in an atmosphere…

A new study reports: One in five pregnancies worldwide ends in an abortion, amounting to a significant fall compared with the mid-nineties, but nearly half these terminations still take place in unsafe conditions, a study says. In 2003, the latest year for which full figures are available, 42 million abortions were carried out around the…

Today’s thin place from Blue Delliquanti Ticino, Switerland There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — G. K. Chesterton Continue to send your thin places to me at dkuoblog@mac.com.

I’m off this evening to attend a conference on faith and politics up at Yale. It should be truly fascinating. It starts (and ends) tomorrow. Click here for a live webcast of the public parts of the forum.

Here’s a concept, something positive and a bit original to help people and there isn’t any controversy. What a deal! State government and the Arkansas Interfaith Conference will work together in a pilot program to help Arkansans obtain their share of an estimated $ 280 million in federal and state benefits that are unclaimed each…

Earlier this week Richard and Lindsay Roberts made an appearance on Larry King Live to discuss allegations made against them by three former professors at Oral Roberts University. The evening the Roberts appeared on Larry King, a friend sent me a three-word email, “Lies, lies, lies” it read. I asked my friend if there was…

I missed this on Sunday – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was being interviewed on Fox News Sunday and was asked about her comment that she was praying for President Bush to change his heart on SCHIP legislation. Here is the transcript: WALLACE: You said the other day that you were praying for President Bush to…

I’m reading a story in today’s NYT about kids being picky eaters: A week’s worth of dinners for young Fiona Jacobson looks like this: Noodles. Noodles. Noodles. Noodles. French fries. Noodles. On the seventh day, the 5-year-old from Forest Hills, Queens, might indulge in a piece of pizza crust, with no sauce or cheese. Ok,…
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