Do Viewers Know About "Knowing"?

By Frederick Meekins | 09/03/09

Viewers wanting to see "Knowing" staring Nicholas Cage might expect a film not all that different from his "National Treasure" series or even perhaps "The Da Vinci Code" as from advertisements the story appears to center around an aged parchment with a series of numbers scribbled across it that seemingly predicts a series of disasters.  However, by the film's conclusion, the apocalyptic symbolism alluded to is... read more »

Healthcare Trickery & Scottish Wimpery: Headline Potpourri #6

By Frederick Meekins | 08/23/09

With Obama seeming to withdraw the so-called "public option" from the healthcare reforms being considered by Congress, many will assume that the battle is now over.  However, things may be more dangerous than ever before.  Up for consideration are so-called "healthcare cooperatives" that will attempt to blend aspects of public and private systems, no doubt with the care and responsiveness that homeowner... read more »

A Christian Analysis Of Atheism, Part 2

By Frederick Meekins | 08/20/09

Try as the atheist might to manipulate objective data to fit their hypothesis with some evolutionists going so far as to invoke the law in order to suppress perspectives conflicting with their origins account, the assumptions of atheism fail to square with the facts of nature and with the revelation of nature's God.  At one time earlier in the modern era, it was quite common for the atheist to portray himself as the true friend and ally of... read more »

Dingell Berry Threats, Beck Boycott, & Clinton In Vegas: Headline Potpourri #5

By Frederick Meekins | 08/13/09

Dingell berries have threatened a protestor daring to speak at a congressional townhall.  According to Mike Sola, supporters of Rep. Dingell showed up at his house in the middle of the night in reference to the exchange this father had about his son with the Congressman.  The nocturnal altercation was reported to police and Sola vows to defend life and property by any means necessary if the situation calls for it. Tolerancemongers... read more »

Dingell Berry Threats, Beck Boycott, & Clinton In Vegas: Headline Potpourri #5

By Frederick Meekins | 08/13/09

Dingell berries have threatened a protestor daring to speak at a congressional townhall.  According to Mike Sola, supporters of Rep. Dingell showed up at his house in the middle of the night in reference to the exchange this father had about his son with the Congressman.  The nocturnal altercation was reported to police and Sola vows to defend life and property by any means necessary if the situation calls for it. Tolerancemongers... read more »

Headline Potpourri #4: Early Marriage High Horse, Healthcare Informants, & Not About Philosophy

By Frederick Meekins | 08/10/09

The real victim of the run in between Harvard malcontent Henry Louis Gates and officer James Crowley may actually be the poor woman making the call to police.  For her efforts at being a good citizen, she has been labeled a racist and received various threats.  At least the policeman is permitted to carry a gun and pepper spray.  At her press conference, she should have made it clear that this would be the last time she ever lifts... read more »

A Christian Analysis Of Atheism, Part 1

By Frederick Meekins | 08/04/09

If the Middle Ages are to stand in history books as the Age of Faith, it could be equally asserted that the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries will no doubt be remembered as the Era of Unbelief. Whereas unbelievers in the Middle Ages were careful in how they expressed their theological doubts for fear of befalling persecution, theists (be they Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox Jew) have today learned selectivity in how they go... read more »

Headline Potpourri #3: Jackson Clones, Radical Profs, & Eldercide

By Frederick Meekins | 07/29/09

Barack Obama has taken on the role of chief booze peddler. Hoping to smooth over the controversy that has erupted over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, the President has invited the professor and the arresting office to the White House for a beer. Given the professor's temper, is it really a good idea to get him all liquored up? Henry Louis Gates is hardly the harmless professor the media is making him out to be. Frankly, Gates is to the Ivy... read more »

Headline Potpourri #3: Jackson Clones, Radical Profs, & Eldercide

By Frederick Meekins | 07/29/09

Barack Obama has taken on the role of chief booze peddler. Hoping to smooth over the controversy that has erupted over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, the President has invited the professor and the arresting office to the White House for a beer. Given the professor's temper, is it really a good idea to get him all liquored up? Henry Louis Gates is hardly the harmless professor the media is making him out to be. Frankly, Gates is to the Ivy... read more »

Galactica Conclusio Philosophicus

By Frederick Meekins | 07/17/09

In one of the climactic scenes of the conclusion of "Battlestar Galactica", Gaius Baltar remarks that an unseen hand had been guiding events all along up until that point. Just as the characters were propelled by something from beyond themselves, the producers behind this show may have been driven by ideas originating from sources other than their own fertile imaginations. Even in the original "Battlestar Galactica" from the... read more »