Seriously. I’m never seen such reckless directness from a politician since Michele Bachmann’s passionate speeches.
CANDOR. AUTHENTICITY. PASSION. KNOWLEDGE.
Contrast Obama’s flowery hopenchange speeches with this straight talk:
Next time, let’s elect someone with substance. Paul Ryan.
I thought this was well done, and accurate.
Unfortunately, Bernanke was confirmed by the Senate. Hayek would not approve.
I kind of minimized the low interest rate problem before, but I changed by mind after my Dad talked to me about Robert P. Murphy’s “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Depression”. (I got it for him because he liked “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism” so much, as did I!)
Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design
Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4pm PST, Stanford University
Christopher Hitchens — Contributing editor to Vanity Fair; visiting professor, New School in New York; author of God is Not Great.
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Jay W. Richards — Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute; co-author, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery.
I just found the 10 videos in a youtube playlist. Each video is about 10 minutes.
Part 1 is just introductory, so I skipped it.
Here’s part 2, which is the start Hitchens’ opening speech:
Part 3 is the rest of Hitchens and the start of Richards’ opening speech:
And part 4, which is the rest of Richards’ opening speech:
You can click through to the playlist for the rest. Or you can listen to the full MP3 audio provided by Brian Auten of Apologetics 315.
This is the one where Richards gives his famous line “A sneer is not an argument and insults do not constitute evidence”. Richards has his Ph.D in philosophy from Princeton University, and he is extremely careful with logic and arguments.
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