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Hagel Supporters Suddenly Singing Different Tune
On New Year's Eve, with Republicans and Democrats negotiating an eleventh-hour deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, President Obama did something strange. He called a press conference, styled as a campaign event, to mock and taunt the Republicans whose votes were still needed on the legislation. Conservatives weren't happy, and noted that this behavior would not exactly encourage the GOP to vote for the bill. But liberals in the press openly sneered at this concept. Would Republicans really act against their better judgment because Obama was mean to them?
No, they would not. Yet strangely liberals in the press are now taking the other side of that argument. Joshua Hersh reports today that, in retaliation for criticizing Chuck Hagel on Israel and Iran, the new defense secretary may hold a grudge and seek revenge on Israel and those opposed to the Iranian nuclear weapons program:
Indeed, in the days following his confirmation, Hagel has to return to Capitol Hill to help hash out a deal on a budget sequester that would impose massive cuts across the board to the Pentagon. Then he will negotiate with lawmakers over a more restrained budget trim that could affect military spending and jobs in states represented by his chief opponents on the Hill.
All the while, the issues that were elevated above all others by his chief antagonists — the ones that drove the most vociferous and inventive opposition to his confirmation — will sit firmly in the forefront of his docket: the military's relationship with Israel, and America's belligerence toward Iran….
An alternative view is that the fight only diluted the hardline pro-Israel position on military aid and Iran by making it partisan, and that Hagel, having won, now feels empowered by the hardliners' failure to stop him.
This, of course, turns the argument in Hagel's favor on its head. Those backing Hagel couldn't seriously argue that he is competent or well-versed in the facts–after all, Hagel himself admitted he wasn't knowledgeable and pledged to try his best not to let his stunning incompetence get in the way of those actually making policy. The best they could do was argue Hagel's views wouldn't matter.
That, however, was nothing compared to J Street's response, expressed by Dylan Williams to Hersh. The J Street position is that pro-Israel voices should quiet down and realize just how… uncool it is to be pro-Israel:
"Celebrating this as a wedge issue is about the worst possible outcome from the point of view of the vast majority of the pro-Israel community," said Dylan Williams, the director of government affairs for J Street, a liberal pro-Israel group that supported Hagel's nomination. "When you have SNL, the Daily Show, Colbert mocking the extent to which conservative members of Congress were falling over themselves to demonstrate the most hawkish positions on Israel, that's something that the true pro-Israel community does not appreciate, and which we have every reason to believe the government of Israel itself does not appreciate."
I'm sure Williams is right that the government of Israel doesn't appreciate being mocked by America's liberal popular culture. But is Jon Stewart really the best barometer on this? Here's Stewart interviewing David Gregory in 2009, and objecting to the fact that Gregory brings no one on his show to defend Hamas:
Stewart: This always surprises me. Why can't any American politician criticize Israel in any way for their behavior? I'm watching these shows, and there's not one person going "Jeez, it's kind of complex. Yeah, Hamas is a bad actor, they shouldn't be throwing missiles, but gosh, you know, the treatment of the Palestinian people for the past 50 years, not so nice either." (Wild applause.) It just seems like it's a more complicated situation than is portrayed.
Gregory: Well, but it's complicated in terms of the whole situation, remains complicated. In this particular instance, there's very little love for Hamas–not in America, not in Arab capitals, Abu Mazen, who leads Fatah on the West Bank, has criticized Hamas. There isn't a lot of admiration for Hamas's tactics, or even their strategic vision.
And we can all be happy for that, I think, since Hamas's tactics are terroristic and their strategic vision is genocide. Does Williams really think that the government of Israel watches programs like that and thinks for a second that pro-Israel Republicans are the problem? Is the lack of moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas a bad thing? Because in Jon Stewart's opinion, it is.
What's really going on here? It can't really be that Williams longs for the day when Hamas gets equal American airtime. And the left can't really believe that Hagel is a true friend of Israel but will seek to punish the Jewish state as defense secretary because he didn't like the way Ted Cruz spoke to him one time. The more likely answer is that liberals are suddenly worried that Hagel's critics were right all along.
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Partisanship Masquerading as Wisdom
Anger over health care clouds the left's judgment.
Nate Silver spoke for most of the liberal blogosphere when he objected to the mainstream media's coverage of Senator John McCain's speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
McCain appeared in the Capitol just days after he had a blood clot removed from above his left eye. Amid that process, doctors discovered that a particularly malignant form of brain cancer was responsible for the clot. Despite his condition and his recovery, McCain made his way back to Washington to vote on a motion to proceed with a debate over the process of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Following his critical vote, which allowed the motion to carry only after the vice president broke a tie, McCain gave a stirring address extolling the virtues of the republic and the Senate, while also castigating his congressional colleagues over their approach to the health-care reform process.
"Among younger and less traditional reporters on Twitter," Silver began, "a lot of people are pointing out McCain's inconsistency in scolding McConnell's process but nevertheless voting for the motion to proceed." Silver added, however, that more traditional reporting outlets in print and on television were far more awed by the remarks. They didn't seem to recognize the inconsistency that so irritated the Twitter-verse.
"Longtime readers of FiveThirtyEight know that I have a lot of beefs with the establishment media," Silver wrote. "Moments like these, where they elevate style over substance, are a big part of why."
The self-selected, cloistered, like-thinking population of professional cynics on political Twitter is a bad target for professional statistical analysts to critique. Moreover, this criticism is a value judgment founded not in rationality but pique.
McCain's speech on the floor of the Senate was worthy of all the praise it received if only because not every political observer has yet abandoned basic human decency (a frailty that political Twitter discourages). McCain is by any definition an American hero who spent his life serving his country. On what may be his last speech to the nation from the upper chamber of Congress, the man deserves a hearing. Silver and his colleagues did not give him that.
McCain's speech was mostly dedicated to the dysfunction of the body in which he serves. "When I hear the Senate referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body, I'm not so sure we can claim that distinction with a straight face today," he said. "Our deliberations can still be important and useful, but I think we'd all agree they haven't been overburdened by greatness lately."
McCain implored his colleagues to ignore the professional rabble-rousers who have made a career of sowing internecine discord. "To hell with them," he said. "They don't want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood." If this speech started to sound like an appeal to bipartisanship, that became explicit in the following sentence.
The senator said that the virtue of the American system is found in those features that stifle one-party governance. "Top-down" "parliamentary maneuvers" that abandon the process of regular order to govern without bipartisan consent have poisoned and radicalized the country. And to repeat Democratic mistakes by shutting the other party out of the process of reforming one-sixth of the American economy would be a mistake.
"I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered," McCain said. "I will not vote for this bill as it is today."
Only ignorance of what a motion to proceed is or rage-induced blindness over the concept of repealing the Affordable Care Act could lead Silver or those for whom he speaks to make their claim. McCain's vote to proceed with a debate is entirely consistent with regular order, to say nothing of his stated reverence for the process of deliberation in the Senate. His insistence that he would not support the health care bill as it exists, without major reforms (including a bipartisan buy-in and, likely, a return to the committee process), is also intellectually consistent.
I would add that it is clear that the activist left with whom Silver has lumped himself simply didn't, or wouldn't, hear the substance of McCain's address. The senior senator from Arizona delivered a moving and eloquent statement of affection for the extraordinary history of the American republic. He painted a portrait of the United States as a fundamentally moral nation. He shared his love for the institutions that have made the American Constitution the world's longest surviving governmental charter. And while he criticized American politics and the politicians who practice it, his reverence for the American system of government—to say nothing of the prosperity and security it has afforded the American people for nearly a quarter thousand years—was infectious.
The left dislikes that kind of sentimentality. They find it mawkish, at best; chauvinistic, at worst. But an American who has dedicated his life to his countrymen, often at great cost, is owed a little maudlin schmaltz, even if the popular Twitter clique does not share those sentiments. Not only was McCain's vote consistent with his opinions, his speech was a moving tribute to the country he loves. It's a shame, but a telling one, that the left didn't hear any of it.
A Familiar Paranoia
Donald Trump sees disloyalty even in his closest supporters.
In a performance that would have shocked sensibilities if they weren't already flogged to the point of numbness, President Trump delivered a nostalgic, campaign-style stem-winder on Monday to a troop of boy scouts. The commander-in-chief meandered between crippling self-pity and gauche triumphalism; he moaned about his treatment by the "fake media," praised himself for the scale of his Electoral College victory, and pondered aloud whether to dub the nation's capital a "cesspool" or a "sewer." Most illuminating in this manic display was an exposition on the virtues of fealty. "We could use some more loyalty; I will tell you that," the president mused. These days, Trump seems fixated on treachery—among Republicans in Congress, among his Cabinet officials, and among his subordinates in the administration. His obsession may yet prove his undoing.
Donald Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. That has become obvious, and not just because Trump's new communications director (whose portfolio seems to consist of inflating the president's ego in friendly media venues and purging the administration of experienced political professionals) admitted as much. Trump told the New York Times that Sessions's decision to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign was "very unfair" to him personally. The president has criticized his "beleaguered" attorney general for taking a "weak" position on prosecuting Trump's 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton, and investigating the Ukrainian government's efforts to support the Clinton campaign.
This is all post hoc. Trump expressed no interest in re-litigating the charges against Hillary Clinton (which his former FBI director dismissed as beyond the scope of prosecution) in November of last year. The tenor of Trump's agitation with his attorney general is proportional to the tempo of new revelations regarding the special counsel investigation into the president's campaign, many of which were first revealed to the public cryptically in Trump's own public pronouncements. As a self-described campaign operative, Sessions was obliged to recuse himself from any investigation into the campaign's activities, and he did so in February. The move reportedly irritated Trump at the time, but his outrage has boiled over only as the probe has begun to ensnare his family.
There is no small amount of absurdity in the fact that Jeff Sessions is perhaps the most loyal of Trump's associates in Washington. His every action has been designed to shield Trump from the consequences of his own recklessness. When Donald Trump was still regarded by the majority of GOP officeholders as a liability and a usurper, Sessions was the first sitting U.S. senator to endorse the rogue candidate. He was a stalwart campaign-trail surrogate and turned in a workmanlike performance at the Justice Department. When Trump fired his FBI director, Sessions refused to testify before Congress as to the nature of pertinent conversations between the president and his Cabinet. When privilege did not protect those conversations, Sessions insisted that he had simply forgotten many of the particulars.
Perhaps more than most, Sessions helped to make Donald Trump the president. As attorney general, the former senator has been effective in overseeing an increasingly restless Justice Department populated by people who chafe amid Trump's regular attacks on them and their superiors. Even now, by declining to be goaded into resignation, Sessions is protecting the president. Trump seems to imagine that Session's removal would clear the way for a new attorney general, who would be free to dismiss Robert Mueller and dissolve the special counsel's office at will. But that wouldn't happen. Trump would merely ignite a political firestorm and be faced with the task of finding another person to serve as a punching bag atop his least favorite agency.
This is all to say nothing of the fact that such a masochistic individual would have to be confirmed by Republicans in the Senate. In that process, lawmakers would surely seek assurances that the new attorney general would not touch the special counsel's office. The Republican-led Congress is already conducting four of their own investigations into Trump's campaign. The president's extraordinary relationship with Russia has forced the GOP-led legislature to prepare a sanctions bill that robs the presidency of its freedom to administer those injunctions.
This all might seem like hostility, but it's precisely the opposite; it's guidance of a kind that a political novice with self-destructive impulses sorely needs. But this sort of protection, too, has led the president to wallow in melancholy and a sense of betrayal. "It's very sad that Republicans do very little to protect their president," he wrote of the incoming sanctions bill.
The kind of paranoia on display in Trump's attacks on his most loyal partners in government is not unfamiliar. It is the kind that mistakes a desire for self-preservation—an instinct found in every successful political actor—as weakness and perfidy. Trump is fortunate enough to have surrounded himself with people devoted enough to him to know when his requests are inappropriate or when the president is better served by preserving the appearance of their independence. The fact that Trump finds even that kind of pantomimed insubordination intolerable is disturbing. This is a man who would sacrifice competence for sycophancy. In a less robust system of constitutional laws, they are the impulses of a leader who would corrupt the very government he manages. They still might.
In his attacks on Sessions—an early Trump supporter, a dedicated public servant, and a man with more goodwill among Republicans on Capitol Hill than the president may ever possess—Trump might have gone too far. Even Trump surrogates who are loath to criticize the president when he most deserves it are no longer being shy. Perhaps they know the bell will toll for them one day, or maybe they sense the danger of the moment. If past behavior is a guide, these defections won't compel Trump to rethink his conduct. In fact, they might only reinforce in Trump the notion that he is surrounded by traitors.
Salaita, Out
Sympathy deferred.
I have written before about Steven Salaita. Once a tenured professor of English at Virginia Tech, he resigned from that position on the strength of an offer from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign to serve in the American Indian Studies program. But in the summer of 2014, UIUC rescinded the offer, mainly over of a series of reprehensible Salaita tweets.
Let the tone of one exemplify many others: Concerning three kidnapped Israeli teens—there was already reason to believe they had been killed—Salaita opined, "You may be too refined to say it, but I'm not: I wish all the fucking West Bank settlers would go missing." As I noted at the time, reasonable people could disagree about whether the offer should have been rescinded.
Ultimately, UIC paid $875,000 to make the case go away. But it was troubling that some on the left chose not only to defend Salaita's academic freedom—as one might defend the freedom of the Westboro Baptist Church to say vile things—but also that they made him into a kind of hero. To this day, he remains an elected member of the National Council of the American Studies Association and is still from time to time invited to give lectures at prestigious places about how he is not allowed to speak.
He has been occupying a chair in American Studies at the American University of Beirut. But that was not a tenured or tenure track position and, apparently, no one else will offer him a job. So he has decided to leave academia.
We will now be endlessly subjected to the claim that Salaita cannot find a job merely because, as he puts it, he has "disdain for settler colonialism." The problem is, he says, that academia is a "bourgeois industry that reward self-importance and conformity."
That is nonsense.
First, Steven Salaita's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, roughly that Zionism is the problem and that turning Israel into a pariah state is a prudent and moral way of dealing with it, may be foolish and morally obtuse. But it is hardly out of bounds in academia and well over a thousand academics have expressed public support for the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Many of them occupy tenured positions at prestigious colleges and universities and, at least as far as I can tell, pay no professional cost for holding the very same set of views Salaita wants us to think is too hot for academia to handle.
Second, in the field Salaita inhabits, a pro-BDS position is not a nonconformist position. It is famously the official line of the American Studies Association. The Association for Asian American Studies, which preceded the ASA in passing a boycott resolution, passed the resolution unanimously with nary an extension. Over four years ago, I observed that not one scholar in that field had publicly dissented. As far as I know, that remains the case today. Salaita himself, in spite of a thin scholarly record, was offered a job at UIUC, the flagship of the Illinois system, presumably on the strength of his activism. There is no doubt in my mind that were it not for his disgusting tweets, he would be happily tenured at U of I spouting the same line he was spouting before he got into trouble.
Of course, people who take radical positions, even if those positions are popular in their subfields, may find themselves under closer scrutiny than people who don't, even at colleges and universities that are supposed to value unconventional thinking. That's unfortunate, and should be decried. Indeed, the U of I's defense of its decision to rescind Salaita's offer in terms of civility was unconvincing and rightly earned the disdain of academic freedom organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the American Association of University Professors. People do sometimes lose their jobs over this kind of thing. But Salaita's views are not what undid him. He was undone by his own callousness and recklessness, neither of which has he found any reason to regret.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Syria's Forsaken Rebels
Has Washington given up on Syria?
Last week, I wrote about one of the troublesome byproducts of the Trump-Putin summit in Hamburg: a ceasefire in southwestern Syria that Israel worries will entrench Iranian control of that area bordering the Israeli Golan Heights. The day after my article came out, the Washington Post reported on another troubling decision that President Trump has made vis a vis Syria: Ending a CIA program that had provided arms and training to anti-Assad forces.
Gen. Tony Thomas, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, insisted that this decision was not a sop to Russia. But whether intended that way or not, that is the effect of this decision. The Post quoted a current U.S. official as saying: "This is a momentous decision. Putin won in Syria." That seems indisputable. By stopping support for the anti-Assad forces, the U.S. is conceding that Bashar Assad—Russia and Iran's client—will stay in power indefinitely.
The U.S. continues, of course, to support the Syrian Democratic Forces, the misleading name of the largely Kurdish YPG rebels that are besieging the Islamic State city of Raqqa. But the YPG has no interest in overthrowing Assad and no interest in governing Arab areas. Their objective is to set up a Kurdish state, Rojava, in northern Syria, and they have friendly relations both with Damascus and Tehran. There is no way that the Kurds can rule the majority of Syrian territory, which is populated by Arabs.
That will leave multiple factions to battle it out for control of most of Syria: the Iran-Assad-Russia axis (spearheaded by Hezbollah and other Iranian-created militias, and backed by Russian air power), the al-Nusra Front (the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, which is rumored to get support from Gulf states), and the Islamic State, which may be down at the moment but hardly out. These factions have their differences, but they are united on certain core essentials. All are rabidly anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Israeli, and all are violent jihadists, whether of the Shiite or Sunni persuasion.
It is not in America's interest for any of these groups to control a substantial amount of Syrian territory. Yet President Trump has now made the puzzling decision to stop support for the only faction that could keep substantial swathes of Syria out of jihadist hands.
Granted, the moderates loosely affiliated with the Free Syrian Army have been losing ground for years. That is largely the fault of President Barack Obama, who unwisely refused to heed the advice of the officials in his administration who advocated a vigorous train-and-assist program for non-jihadist rebels. Such a program would have had a much greater chance of working in earlier years. America's failure to help the moderates has led many fighters to defect to more radical groups, and many of our allies have been killed or expelled.
But it would not be impossible to reverse these trends, and trying would be worthwhile. There are, after all, scores of military-age Syrian men who have fled the country as refugees. If the U.S. had the will to act, they could be trained, armed, and organized into an effective military force on Jordanian or Turkish soil and then sent with U.S. advisers and U.S. air support to secure Syrian territory. We currently provide that kind of aid to the Kurds, but we have cut off the Arab fighters, who are willing to risk their lives to fight against one of the biggest war criminals in the world—Bashar Assad, who is responsible for upwards of 400,000 deaths.
This decision makes little sense on strategic or moral grounds. Instead of abandoning the moderates, we should be doing more to buttress them. Even if it's too late to overthrow Assad, who is more secure than ever since Russia entered the conflict in 2015, it might at least be possible to limit him to a few major cities and the Alawite heartland and prevent jihadists from taking control of most of the Syrian countryside. If we stop trying, we are conceding much of Syria to the Iran-Russia camp indefinitely. That is not in our interest, nor in that of our regional allies. Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, will be very happy.
The Democratic Party's False Centrism
It's a duck.
Democrats are finally digging out of the wreckage the Obama years wrought, and are beginning to acknowledge the woes they visited upon themselves with their box-checking identity liberalism. So, yes, the opposition is moving forward in the Trump area, but toward what? Schizophrenia, apparently.
The party's rebranding effort began in earnest last week when Democrats revealed a new slogan meant to evoke an old one: "A Better Deal." Writing for the New York Times opinion page on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer insisted the Democratic Party's new agenda "is not about expanding the government, or moving our party in one direction or another along the political spectrum." Any sentient political observer could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
"First, we're going to increase people's pay," Schumer wrote. "Second, we're going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we're going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy." He endorsed Bernie Sanders' $1 trillion infrastructure spending proposal, a national paid family and sick leave program, and a hike of the minimum wage to $15 per hour. To reduce the cost of consumer goods, Democrats will pursue changes in the law to allow Congress to break up big firms with oppressive capriciousness.
When pressed on Sunday about what the "Better Deal" agenda may mean for health care, Schumer confessed it meant the most radical expansion of entitlement benefits in American history. "Medicare for people above 55 is on the table. A buy-in to Medicare is on the table. Buy-in to Medicaid is on the table," the senator said. All options are available—including, apparently, a single-payer system in the form of voluntary Medicare-for-all—once Democrats "stabilize" ObamaCare's insurance market.
Schumer admitted that the source of Democratic troubles in 2016 and since isn't Moscow or former FBI Director James Comey; it's that the electorate doesn't know what values or beliefs his party represents. Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy agreed. "Our failing historically has been to focus on very targeted demographic messages, cultural issues, rather than broad-based economic themes," he insisted. So the Democratic Party's message in 2018 will apparently be not just big government but behemoth government. And yet, the faintest warble of Schumer's conscience compelled him to assure voters that big government isn't the Democratic objective. Why?
Because the way for Democrats to win involves party members farther to the Right—that faction of Democrats known as the Blue Dogs. "The [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] recognizes that the path to the majority is through the Blue Dogs," asserted Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. She told Politico that she is in talks with at least 20 potential candidates vying to revive this endangered species. "We are able to convince folks who normally wouldn't vote for a Democrat to vote for this Democrat."
Before voters purged moderate House Democrats by voting for Republicans instead in 2010, their eventual disappearance was heralded as a great victory for the Progressive Monolith. "Democrats aren't ideological enough," wrote Ari Berman in an October 2010 New York Times op-ed. He argued that ideological homogeneity would make Democrats "more united and more productive." In fact, the 2010 midterm elections marked the end of the legislative phase of Barack Obama's presidency. Good call there.
The House's Blue Dog Coalition is "dedicated to pursuing fiscally-responsible policies, ensuring a strong national defense, and transcending party lines," according to its mission statement. How those objectives comport with Schumer's platform—cutting a 13-figure check for infrastructure, rampant economic interventionism, and a semi-single-payer system—is anyone's guess. Democrats may plan on localizing individual races so as to shield their candidates from the party's negatives, but that's easier said than done. Just ask Jon Ossoff, who lost in a Georgia special election despite having done precisely this.
The party's leaders seem aware that the kind of hyper-liberalism articulated in the "Better Deal" agenda is incompatible with the kind of "economic populism" that proposes individual frugality and prudence as well as solvent safety nets for those who need assistance. For all his faults, Trump was able to marry these two concepts in a way that appealed both to Republicans and enough swing Democrats to win the White House. Democrats appear to be appealing to centrists only at the point of a progressive bayonet. If Democratic candidates start winning again, it won't be a result of their party's coherent platform.


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USC coach Lane Kiffin said no matter what freshman quarterback Max Wittek does against Notre Dame on Saturday, there will be an open competition in the spring with Cody Kessler and incoming freshman Max Browne.
"That competition regardless of backup play in this game will be completely open in the spring," Kiffin said. " We've been very clear over last two years, that each year is different, regardless of backup play."
That includes giving a chance to Browne, who is scheduled to enroll in January.
"We're always really competitve," Kiffin said. "Things will always be open. I think you would think that (quarterback is the toughest position for a freshman) but we sure have seen freshmen playing quarterback across the country and a couple in the conference."
Kiffin also made it clear he would not alternate Wittek with Kessler against the Irish.
"I just don't believe in that," Kiffin said. "Whoever you go with, you gotta go with."
Emotional loss
Kiffin said it will be especially tough to say goodbye to this senior class, which includes quarterback Matt Barkley, safety T.J. McDonald and tailback Curtis McNeal, because of the high expectations before the season.
"This will probably be the most difficult one because this didn't work out the way everyone hoped, unfortunately," he said.
This is Kiffin's third senior class that initially played for former coach Pete Carroll.
"It's kind of like a stepfather, where you come in and their not your kids initially and you take them over," Kiffin said.
Role reversal
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly sounded exactly like Lane Kiffin this week when he spoke about USC's motivation against the Irish.
"USC is going to play their very best," Kelly said. "We get that every week. We get the absolute best from our opponent each and every week."
Kiffin is renowned for saying USC's opponents always give their best effort.
Coaching compliment
Kiffin said he does not know Kelly well but respects his determination.
"He really stuck to his guns," Kiffin said. "In the offseason people talk about hot seats and he stayed with his principles and is a national coach of the year (candidate)."
Still alternating
Kiffin said left tackles Max Tuerk and Aundrey Walker would continue to split time against Notre Dame.
"They've both been playing well," Kiffin said.
Helping hand
Thirteen players, including wide receivers Marqise Lee and Robert Woods, served food at the downtown Los Angeles Mission.
"It really humbles them and makes them realize how fortunate they are," Kiffin said.
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NORWALK — A 20-year-old man was arrested Saturday for allegedly attempting to carjack an off-duty South Gate police officer at gunpoint in Norwalk, sheriff's officials said.
The attempted carjacking occurred around 4 a.m. at the intersection of Norwalk Boulevard and Cyclops Street, according to officials at the Norwalk sheriff's station.
Officials said the officer slowed his private vehicle when two Hispanic men stepped out into the lane he was traveling in, and one pointed a handgun directly at the officer.
The off-duty officer quickly drove around the two men and called 9-1-1 for help, officials said.
Sheriff's deputies rushed to the scene and saw three males running east on Cyclops Street. The area was searched and one suspect, identified as Nicholas Andres of Norwalk, was found behind a home in the 12200 block of Cyclops Street. He was arrested without incident.
The off-duty officer identified Andres as the suspect who had pointed the firearm at him, and search dogs discovered a pistol in the area, officials said.
No other suspects were located.
Andres was booked at the Norwalk Station for assault with a deadly weapon. He was held on $50,000 bail.


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Glucose and oxygen concentrations are monitored, and glucose concentration and pH are adjusted as needed.
Figure 1 is a simplified schematic diagram of a system that automatically regulates the concentration of glucose or pH in a liquid culture medium that is circulated through a rotating-wall perfused bioreactor. Another system, shown in Figure 2, monitors the concentration of oxygen in the culture medium.
The glucose-regulating system includes an electrochemical sensor that measures the concentration of glucose in the medium flowing out of the bioreactor, a reservoir containing a concentrated glucose stock solution, and a peristaltic pump. The sensor reading is digitized and monitored by a computer, which generates commands to open and close valves, as described below, to adjust the concentration of glucose. This allows the system to maintain an optimal concentration of glucose without using large volumes of cell culture medium. The glucose control system operates in one of the following three modes (see Figure 1): perfusion, where the medium is simply circulated without adding or removing any liquid; infusion, where fresh cell medium is introduced into circulation, replacing the spent medium in the bioreactor; injection, where a small amount of concentrated glucose solution is added to the bioreactor when the glucose concentration falls below 75 mg/dL.
The electrochemical glucose sensor includes a membrane that is covered with a thin (10 to 200 mm thick) layer of immobilized glucose oxidase enzyme and is coupled to a three-electrode amperometric probe and a flow cell. Glucose diffuses through the membrane and, in the presence of the glucose oxidase, is converted to hydrogen peroxide and gluconic acid. The rate of generation of hydrogen peroxide is measured amperometrically on a platinum working electrode at a potential of 0.7 V with respect to an Ag/AgCl reference electrode. The sensor reading is correlated with the concentration of glucose by the Michaelis-Menten equation,
I=ImaxS/(K + S),
where I is the sensor current, Imax is the maximum sensor current for the amperometric reaction, K is a constant, and S is the concentration of glucose. The constants Imax and K are determined by means of a two-point calibration, using a commercial glucose analyzer to determine the glucose concentrations. This sensor system has been tested in cell culture experiments for over 50 days. The control of glucose in this manner reduces the amount of culture medium required to optimally grow cells.
The pH sensor, described in "Optoelectronic Instrument Monitors pH in a Culture Medium" (MSC-23107), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 28, No. 9 (September 2004), page 4a, was coupled to the above control system containing a small volume of a mixture of sodium and potassium hydroxide and bicarbonate solution to form a pH control system. When the sensor pH output fell below a preset level, a small amount of buffer was injected to the bioreactor to bring the pH to the desired level. This system was tested in a 120-day cell run, where the pH was controlled at 7.1±0.1 pH unit. The volume of buffer used was negligible compared to the volume of cell culture medium required for the same level of pH control. By controlling the culture pH in this manner, the cells produced less biofilm.


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FBI Opens Fresh Criminal Investigation Into Anonymous Following Hack
Jason Mick
February 8, 2013 11:42 AM
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Bankers affected say it's no big deal
Jo David Cummins, president and CEO of Community First Bank of the Heartland in Illinois, laughs off
' mid-January "hack"
of a
U.S. Federal Reserve
database, which scooped up his record and over 4,000 others. He
, "It hasn't been much of a hassle. The information that was on the contact system was the same thing that was on my business card, so it wasn't like it was anything that could do any harm to me or the bank."
I. Adobe Flaw Likely Exploited by Hackers.
But while it may not be a big deal for most of the affected, the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the Federal Reserve are taking the incident very seriously. Comments Federal Reserve spokesman Jim Strader, "We are in the process of a comprehensive assessment to determine what information might have been obtained in this incident. We remain confident that this incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve."
The site that the information leaked from was dubbed
Emergency Communication System
(ECS). While protected by passwords and encryption,
was able to circumvent those barriers.
It's possible that the attackers used an SQL injection (aka "
Little Bobby Tables
") style attack. Such attacks can be prevented if the requests were sanitized.
However, it's also possible that the hackers exploited well-known security flaws in Adobe Systems, Inc.'s (
) Cold Fusion suite, which the site was built upon. In mid-January -- right about the time of the attack -- Adobe patched several critical security flaws that could allow malicious users access to restricted files and even allow them to takeover servers.
An Adobe flaw may have been responsible for the Fed hack. [Image Source: Adobe]
In the
press release
for the patch, Adobe stated:
This hotfix addresses vulnerabilities that could permit an unauthorized user to remotely circumvent authentication controls, potentially allowing the attacker to take control of the affected server... Adobe is aware of reports that four vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0625, CVE-2013-0629, CVE-2013-0631 and CVE-2013-0632, referenced in Security Advisory APSA13-01)
are being exploited in the wild against ColdFusion customers.
A 2012 audit at the Fed suggested that a monitoring system be put in place to review security at third-party systems. It's possible the ECS system may fall under that category.
The Federal Reserve System is the backbone of the American banking industry, established before the Great Depression. The oft-criticized institution is a strange mix of private and public parts.
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Many members of the quasi-leaderless hacktivist group
have been vocal opponents of the Fed and the U.S. commercial banking industry in general, which they label as corrupt and exploitive.
The recent attack is part of the group's
dramatically titled "OpLastResort"
. The operation is a manifestation of the explosion of anger over the death of online activist Aaron Swartz. Mr. Swartz, who designed the RSS, reportedly tragically committed suicide last month after fighting a long battle
with depression and government harassment
Federal prosecutors had investigated Mr. Swartz after he dumped 4 million papers from the JSTOR network. JSTOR hosts peer-reviewed journal papers, most of which cost money to access. Critics of Mr. Swartz's actions argue that journal fees help sustain the costly march of research in fields such as physics, biology, and genetics. But his supporters argue that academic research should be free to all, not pent up in some ivory cage.
Aaron Swartz
Even some of his critics, though, balked at how the feds allegedly harassed him for the breach.
A pair
of petitions
to fire the prosecutors involved with the criminal case -- Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann and his boss U.S. District Attorney Carmen Ortiz -- has been attracting substantial attention. The petition to remove DA Ortiz has already received 25,000 signatures, meaning that President Barack Obama must respond to it.
III. Sabu to be Sentenced
In a related reminder, former
mastermind Hector Xavier Monsegur (handles: "Sabu", "Xavier DeLeon", and "Leon") is set to be sentenced on Feb. 22. Mr. Monsegur had founded the sub-unit of
and in 2011
led it in hacking Sony
Corp. (TYO:6758)
and also
breaching government sites
Hacker "messiah" Hector Monsegur, a former member of
's upper echelon is set to be sentenced later this month. His sentence will likely be greatly reduced for his role in "snitching" on his fellow hackers. [Image Source: Fox News]
Unbeknownst to his cohorts, Mr. Monsegur was located by the FBI and offered a plea deal. The hacker accepted, and for the next few months continued to lead attacks, while
allegedly serving as a double agent
, feeding feds information that helped them
track down other top members
such as Topiary
, a 19-year-old who was
arrested in the UK's Shetland Islands
The hacker was given a sentencing reprieve due to concerns about his safety and his ongoing cooperation with federal investigations. He has plead guilty to 12 federal computer crimes, which carry a maximum theoretical sentence of 124-years. It is likely that his sentences will at a bare minimum be reduced to being served consecutively (which greatly slashes his prison time -- for example Bank Fraud, one of his charged offenses, carries a maximum 30 year sentence).
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Lindsey Wilson College Players will perform Arthur Miller's classic
play The Crucible on Nov. 2-3 and Nov. 6. The production
will be directed by LWC Assistant Professor of Theater Robert
In the years since the play made its
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also current -- you can relate it to so many things. Arthur Miller
was a great writer, and I like to do the work of great writers
because they give you so much to work with. The scenes are so
well-structured -- they rise to a climax at the end that have you
The Lindsey Wilson Players will
perform Arthur Miller's The Crucible at 7 p.m. CT on Nov.
2-3 and at 2 p.m. CT on Nov. 6 in V.P. Henry Auditorium, 210
Lindsey Wilson St. The play is directed by LWC Assistant Professor
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Tom Morris Library: Encyclopedia of the Sea
Encyclopedia of the Sea
Richard Ellis
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Product DescriptionFrom one of the world's leading experts on the sea comes this ocean-sized compendium of aquatic life and lore. Richard Ellis--who is also recognized as America's foremost painter of marine subjects--gives us a masterful synthesis of years of investigation and tens of thousands of disparate sources. The result is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated, and highly readable reference on almost everything that is known about the sea.Ellis's research has taken him all over the world--from Nantucket to Patagonia, from Newfoundland to New Zealand. Now he leads us on a great journey: from the amazing diversity of the creatures of the oceans to the birds who inhabit the skies above them; from the little-known realms of marine geography to the men and women who have bravely explored them; from the fabulous legends the sea has inspired through the ages to the intriguing evolution of the tools of nautical navigation.With more than 450 of the author's own drawings and paintings accompanying the text, Ellis reveals the many wonders of the oceans--abalone, zooxanthellae, and everything in between. We learn about the peculiar behavior of Vampyroteuthis infernalis (the "vampire squid from hell") and about Mocha Dick, the real sperm whale that may have inspired Melville's Moby-Dick; where the crown-of-thorns starfish gets its name and how the rare coelacanth, cousin to a species extinct for 70 million years--and one of the most mispronounced fish in the sea--was rediscovered. We visit lovely and exotic locations from Venice to Ni'ihau (Hawaii's "forbidden isle"), and consider both the fearsome kraken (a mythical sea monster often seen by Scandinavian clergymen) and the notorious real-life pirate Captain Kidd (whose hidden treasure was never found).Exhaustive, concise, and entertaining, the Encyclopedia of the Sea is invaluable as an all-inclusive, one-volume source for anyone interested in the sea, its inhabitants, and man's exploration of its mysteries.Amazon.com ReviewThe world's oceans are vast, too vast for their components to be distilled comfortably into the pages of a single book. That said, Richard Ellis, a noted student of all matters pelagic, does an extraordinary job of gathering key points of the oceans' natural and human history in this fact-filled, desk-sized encyclopedia. Starting with abalone ("a large marine gastropod of the genus Haliotis, with a dishlike shell punctuated by a series of holes on the outer edge") and ending with zooxanthellae (a kind of pigmented protozoan that conducts photosynthesis), Ellis offers sparkling discussions on topics ranging from the red-footed booby (whose name, we learn, derives from the Spanish bobo and refers unflatteringly to the bird's apparent stupidity in not fleeing humans) to Captain William Kidd ("one of history's most notorious pirates," whose reputed buried treasures are still the objects of treasure hunters' dreams) and from the Hanseatic League (a seagoing, commercial federation of north German towns that once ruled the Baltic) to scrimshaw ("the carving done by American whalemen on whale bones and teeth or, less frequently, on the tusks of walruses"). Whether beachgoer or deep-sea explorer, if you have any interest at all in the ocean, you'll find this, like Ellis's many other books on sea life and lore, to be a useful and entertaining companion. --Gregory McNamee
Whether beachgoer or deep-sea explorer, if you have any interest at all in the ocean, you'll find this, like Ellis's many other books on sea life and lore, to be a useful and entertaining companion. --Gregory McNamee
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'Devils' captain Scott Stevens played in his 934th game as a Devil on Wednesday, tying him with John MacLean (now a Devils' assistant coach) for second place on the team's all-time games played list behind Ken Daneyko (1,283). Stevens also took over sole possession of fifth place on the NHL's games played list by participating in his 1,613th career contest. He needs to play only two more games to tie Larry Murphy as the NHL's all-time leader among defensemen.'
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Brevard, N.C. - The Tornado men's golf team enters the 2008-09 season with high expectations. After a very successful spring last season that produced five top-five finishes in their final five events, the upcoming season looks very bright.
"I was extremely proud of my team and how they finished last spring," said Coach Nelson. "The obvious highlight being our fourth-place finish at the SAC tournament." Although the Tornado men were not eligible for conference awards (individual or team), they served notice that they were capable of competing within the conference this upcoming year.
Returning to lead the Tornado charge will be seniors Myles Johnston and Craig Galloway, along with juniors Grant Carnie and Tommie Bush. Carnie in particular had an outstanding sophomore season. He finished the spring with the best stroke average on the team and placed in the top-five at two events. His top-five finish at the SAC tournament set the stage to what should be an outstanding junior campaign.
"Grant worked very hard on his game this summer with the target in mind to come back and play the No. 1 position for us this season," commented Coach Nelson. "He won a major amateur event back home (North of Scotland Open Championship) finishing first ahead of over 350 participants from all over the world."
Along with Carnie, Coach Nelson will look to returning senior Myles Johnston for strong play. Johnston is a two time team MVP and the most consistent player for the Tornados over the past three years.
"Myles is as steady as they come. I hope to see him back playing at another level as he finishes a stellar career at Brevard College," said Coach Nelson.
Also hopeful of finishing his career strong is senior Craig Galloway. "Galloway is the hardest working player on my team. His leadership (team captain) and work ethic are second to none," comments Coach Nelson. "He's had a very productive summer working on his game, which I anticipate will produce great scores for us."
Junior Thomas Bush and sophomore Joe Holliday are expected to contribute as well. Bush started slowly in the fall, but posted excellent scores in the spring. Holliday had a typical freshman season adjusting to collegiate golf, as well as schedule and academic demands.
The Tornado team will boast seven new faces this fall. Current BC senior Chris White and junior Mike Jones will play golf this year, having previously participated in the Tornado baseball program. White is a fifth year senior that completed a stellar career on the Tornado baseball team last spring. Throughout the summer White has always played competitive golf in amateur events. Jones will also make the transition to golf hopeful to make a strong contribution as well. Redshirt sophomore Jesse Merritt sat out last year as a transfer student. Merritt brings with him an excellent high school resume, but has never participated in golf at the collegiate level.
This year's freshman class looks to be one of the best in recent years according to Coach Nelson. North Carolina natives Joshua Nelson (Mooresville, N.C.) and Joshua Davis (Old Fort, N.C.) come in with impressive high school credentials. Both have won conference championships and regional qualifications for state championships over the past two years. Davis qualified for the 4A state finals, while Nelson participated in the 3A state finals. Recently Davis won the McDowell County Amateur Championship this summer and seems poised to start a stellar collegiate career. Much like Davis, Nelson is perceived to be an immediate impact player for the Tornados. He holds the course record (63) at Mooresville County Club, his home course.
Also joining the incoming freshman class will be Bret McGaughey (Laguna Beach, CA) and Thomas Rennie (Scotland). Rennie follows a long line of Scottish golfers that have come through the program. His tournament experience at the junior level in Scotland will serve the program well. McGaughey is the first Tornado recruit from the west coast. Much like his freshman peers; McGaughey comes to Brevard with a very impressive high school resume as well. He won his league individual championship two years running, and participated in regional play.
"All four freshmen have the ability to play in the top-five this season," said Coach Nelson. " I would compare this recruiting class to my 2005 class that finished the year ranked as the #1 Freshman Class in the NAIA by GolfStat. These young men are outstanding golfers that will impact our program for years to come."
The Tornados will open up the season in Etowah, N.C. on September 14-15 with the Montreat Fall Invitational which BC will be co-hosting with Montreat College. BC will then compete at the Webber Fall Invitational in Florida the following week and then the Clayton State Invitational on September 29-30 in Hampton, Ga. The Tornados will wrap up their 2008 fall season with the SMC Fall Invitational on October 6-7 and the LMU Fall Invitational on October 20-21.
In the 2009 spring season, the Tornados will compete in a number of tournaments filled with strong NCAA Division II competition.
The Tornados will play back-to-back-to-back weeks starting on March 2-3 at the Richard Rendleman Invitational in Salisbury, N.C., the Tusculum Men's Invitational in Greeneville, Tenn. On March 9-10 and finishing with the Montreat Spring Invitational on March 16-17.
BC will then compete at the BMW Collegiate Invitational in Tigerville, S.C. on April 6-7 before hosting their annual Independent Collegiate Invitational tournament in Etowah, N.C. on April 13-14.
The Tornados will then host the 2009 South Atlantic Conference Tournament in Etowah, N.C. on April 20-21.


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Nebraska Coordinator Seeks Help For Honor Flights
Efforts to fly more Nebraska veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the Korean War and other memorials have taken an $80,000 hit.
Bill Williams, of Patriotic Productions in Omaha, says a donor has reduced his pledge to $20,000 from $100,000. So Williams is issuing another call for donations to help around 440 veterans make the trip.
Williams has chartered three jets to carry the vets, family members and volunteer guardians to the nation's capital on March 25. They'll visit the memorials and take in other sights on their all-expenses-paid journey, returning that evening to a hero's welcome in Omaha. He organized a similar trip in October for 135 veterans.
The total cost is about $471,000. Williams says the planes are paid for, but the $80,000 is needed for other expenses.


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Home prices rose in August in nearly all the country's biggest cities, and many of the markets hit hardest during the crisis are starting to show sustained gains. The increases are the latest evidence of a steady housing recovery. The Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index reported home prices increased 2 percent year-over-year, the third straight increase and a faster pace than in July.
Ford: best-ever 3rd quarter showing
Europe may have lost its appetite for new cars, but buyers in America and China propelled Ford to a better-than-expected profit in the third quarter. It earned $1.63 billion, down only slightly from a year earlier, despite lower worldwide sales and bigger European losses. It was the company's best performance ever in the third quarter. Ford said its per-share net income was unchanged at 41 cents.
IBM increases share
buyback fund by $5B
International Business Machines Corp. increased its stock repurchase fund by 75 percent, to $11.7 billion, and said it plans to ask the board to authorize more in April as it seeks to improve shareholder returns. The company may buy shares in the open market or in private transactions, according to a statement.
Jobless rates fall
in 95% of U.S. cities
Unemployment rates fell in nearly all large U.S. cities in September from August, a sign that recent jobs gains have been widespread. The Labor Department said Tuesday that rates declined in 355 of the 372 metro areas, the most since April. The report also shows that nearly half of cities now have unemployment rates below 7 percent. And the number of areas with unemployment rates above 10 percent dropped to 35. That's down from 84 a year ago.
UBS to make cuts
in turnaround bid
Swiss banking giant UBS AG is to cut as many as 10,000 employees, or 15 percent of its staff, to drastically shrink its ailing investment bank. Three-fourths of the cuts are in London and the United States. The news of the layoffs came as Switzerland's biggest bank posted another big loss for the third quarter.
BP raises dividend
as Q3 profit swells
Oil company BP is rewarding long-suffering shareholders with a substantial dividend increase just days after it sold a stake in a Russian joint venture for billions of dollars. BP also revealed it made a net profit of $5.5 billion in the third quarter, more than offsetting the $1.34 billion los s reported in the previous three months when the company wrote down the value of some assets. It was also 5 percent higher than last year's equivalent of $5.2 billion.


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The idea that the Church of England wants to "apologise to Darwin" seems calculated - and perhaps it was - to annoy the Daily Mail. Certainly, the Mail on Sunday rose to the bait, claiming that the church was planning "officially" to apologise to the great biologist and rounding up some usual suspects - Ann Widdecombe among them - to "greet with derision" a move which the paper described as "bizarre". "Church officials" were deemed to have compared the move with the Catholic Church's decision a few years ago to pardon Galileo (allegedly despite the reservations of one Cardinal Ratzinger). Even Terry Sanderson of the NSS was quoted as saying that it seemed "rather crazy" to apologise to someone so long after his death.
On the face of it the Church of England doesn't have much to apologise for. Indeed, if you take the view that Darwinian evolution strikes at the root of the traditional Christian world view, it must be admitted that the Church of England, at least in its official capacity, treated Darwin with remarkable forbearance. He was even buried in Westminster Abbey. Of course many Christians, at the time and since, have denounced Darwin's theory as the work of the devil. But they have not tended to be Anglican Christians. There's certainly no comparison with Galileo, who was officially denounced, condemned as a heretic, and forced to recant his outrageous suggestion that the earth revolved around the sun.
If many Anglicans of Darwin's time resisted natural selection, it was less because of a perceived conflict with the Book of Genesis - unlike today's "Young Earth" creationists, most had already come to terms with the findings of geology - than because the theory threatened man's position as God's special and unique creation. Among Darwin's clerical opponents, the most prominent was the Bishop of Oxford, Sam Wilberforce, who famously took on Thomas Huxley in debate (he lost) and less famously, but more maliciously, intervened to prevent Darwin receiving a knighthood. Perhaps this is what the C of E wishes to apologise for. Not getting a knighthood, though, is not quite in the same league as what befell Galileo. And when he died, Darwin was eulogised from pulpits and in church magazines. In a sermon at Westminster Abbey, Canon Alfred Barry described natural selection as "by no means alien to the Christian religion" - as long as it was understood as operating "under the Divine Intelligence".
Of course, the "apology" turns out to be no such thing. There's no ex cathedra statement from Rowan Williams. Instead, it takes the form of an apostrophe to Darwin's shade at the end of an essay by Revd Malcolm Brown on the C of E's website:
Charles Darwin: 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still. We try to practice the old virtues of 'faith seeking understanding' and hope that makes some amends.
Apart from the misleading suggestion that there was such a thing as a "first reaction" from the C of E this seems fairly unexceptionable, and certainly doesn't merit the excited reaction from the press. Though Brown, who is the church's "director of mission and public affairs" (I suppose that's churchspeak for spin-doctor) will no doubt be delighted by the attention. What, then, is really going on?
The answer comes in the next sentence:
But the struggle for your reputation is not over yet, and the problem is not just your religious opponents but those who falsely claim you in support of their own interests.
Brown would seem to have two major aims. The first is to distance his church - and mainstream Christianity generally - from the manifest absurdity of creationism. The second is more ambitious, to reclaim Darwinism for God. As he also says, "if Darwin's ideas once needed rescuing from religious defensiveness, they may also now need rescuing from some of the enthusiasts for his ideas."
He mentions no names, but I think we all know who he has in mind. Nor is Brown above the old smear that Darwinism, when combined with atheism, has unfortunate consequences:
It may just be that Wilberforce and others glimpsed a murky image of how Darwin's theories might be misappropriated and the harm they could do...From the social misapplication of Darwin's theories has sprung insidious forms of racism and other forms of discrimination which are more horribly potent for having the appearance of scientific "truth" behind them. Darwin's immense achievement was to develop a big theory which went a long way to explaining aspects of the world around us. But to treat it as an all-embracing theory of everything is to travesty Darwin's work.
Note the subtle implication towards the end of this extract. To treat Darwin's theory as "all-embracing" - in that it is capable of shedding light on many different phenomena - is not the same thing as using a crude notion of "survival of the fittest" as a blueprint for society. As he made plain in his recent TV series on the Genius of Darwin, Richard Dawkins is as opposed to "social Darwinism" as any Anglican bishop. What Brown's argument amounts here to is the usual claim that religion is essential for morality.
Brown's essay forms only one of a number of articles and resources posted on the church's website to mark next year's Darwin anniversaries. There's also a statement from the Bishop of Swindon, a biologist and member of the Association of Ordained Scientists, who writes of his "conviction that scientific insights and Christian belief are meant to be companions not competitors". He notes that "anniversaries associated with the life, discoveries and writing of Charles Darwin will no doubt prompt many to take a different view." Many creationists, but also many atheists.
The Church of England, now as ever committed to the via media, imagines its position as being a kind of third way between the Biblical literalism of the creationists and the hard-boiled atheism of Richard Dawkins. As such it can find itself assailed by both sides, and accused of inconsistency and doublethink. This leads to defensiveness, but also to frustration. One of my religious readers, Weeping Cross, complains in a comment that he finds it "absolutely infuriating" that media voices "expect Christians to be creationists, or at least to have some sort of intellectual sympathy with them." It's a widespread lament among Anglicans.
One reason for the over-representation of creationism in public debate may be the peripheral place that Christianity now occupies in society: for those who don't know, and don't care, about the precise doctrines of the church, Christians can seem strange and baffling. And so creationism can sound like the sort of thing Christians ought to believe in. Added to that is the high profile of the American religious right, many members of which either believe in a six-day creation or at least allow themselves to be represented by ministers who do. Also, though - as Michael Reiss said the other day - creationism seems to be growing. In some ways the rise of creationism parallels the rise of the evangelical wing of the Church. Most evangelicals may not be creationists, but all creationists are evangelical. So, in a shrinking religious market, the church risks becoming a bolt-hole for fundamentalists in retreat from the modern world, stuck in a defiantly pre-scientific view of the world.
The "Christians for Darwin" (counterparts, perhaps, to "Atheists for Jesus") are part of a long tradition of Anglican triangulation. Charles Kingsley, the Victorian novelist, was among the first devout Christians to take Darwin's discoveries on board. It was "just as noble a conception of the Deity, to believe that He created primal forms capable of self-development as to believe that He required a fresh act of intervention to supply the lacunas which He himself had made." The Revd Thomas Burnet, a Restoration divine who wrote The Sacred Theory of Earth - an early (and recognisably Anglican) attempt to reconcile a religious world-view with emerging ideas about the age of the earth - made the same point in 1680:
Tis a dangerous thing to engage the authority of scripture in disputes about the natural world, in opposition to reason; lest time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made scripture to assert... We are not to suppose that any truth concerning the natural world can be an enemy to religion, for truth cannot be an enemy to truth. God is not divided against himself.
It's a lesson which the Church of England has had to re-learn many times. Creationists, on the other hand, still seem impervious to it.
Monday, 15 September 2008
Christians for Darwin
The idea that the Church of England wants to "apologise to Darwin" seems calculated - and perhaps it was - to annoy the Daily Mail. Certainly, the Mail on Sunday rose to the bait, claiming that the church was planning "officially" to apologise to the great biologist and rounding up some usual suspects - Ann Widdecombe among them - to "greet with derision" a move which the paper described as "bizarre". "Church officials" were deemed to have compared the move with the Catholic Church's decision a few years ago to pardon Galileo (allegedly despite the reservations of one Cardinal Ratzinger). Even Terry Sanderson of the NSS was quoted as saying that it seemed "rather crazy" to apologise to someone so long after his death.
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I would assume that because Christian churches are _SO_ quick to apologize, that by the year 2400 the Vatican should get around to apologizing for all the child-molesting.
- 16 September 2008 at 02:02
Good post, again!
I notice you tend to avoid statements re: your personal views. Would you class yourself as agnostic, atheist, or indeed agnostic atheist? I'm just nosy.
- 16 September 2008 at 22:21
- Heresiarch said...
Really, Valdemar, if you haven't worked it out by now you haven't been paying attention. And I know you better than that!
- 17 September 2008 at 09:19


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Sinterklaas 2013
The Dutch Club Chicago
Sunday, December 8, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (CST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
We are very excited that Sinterklaas will visit us again in Chicago this year! The 'Goedheiligman' will pay us a visit on Sunday, December 8th, on his trip home from the Netherlands!
The doors will open at 12.00 PM to sign in. We will have an arts & crafts area for the children were they can decorate their own goodie bag for the pepernoten and make a small craft.
In the mean time the parents can enjoy a complimentary cup of coffee or tea with a koekje. During the intermission there will also be (soft) drinks, stroopwafels and poffertjes. The organization also offers some light snacks for all.
We ask all parents to bring a wrapped gift along for your child(ren). We suggest you wrap the gift(s) in red wrapping paper or off course Sinterklaas paper, if you have any. Make sure their first and last names are written clearly on each gift, so Sinterklaas will not make a mistake! We ask that your gift(s) does not exceed $10, as Sinterklaas loves all children equally.
The gifts will be collected at the gymnasium before we start.
For older children (they 'know'!):
For children who are older and 'know' about Sinterklaas there will be Sinterklaas games in another location at the school. You will receive more information about this party and what to bring in the week before the event!
Let's make this event extra special for Sinterklaas. Can you please practice the following songs with your children?
Zie ginds komt de stoomboot / Sinterklaasje kom maar binnen... / Sinterklaas kapoentje
Reservation deadline:
The reservation deadline is Thursday, December 5, 2013. If you have any questions or remarks, please send the Sint an email by clicking here.
Do you want to be a volunteer at this event? Please let us know by sending us a message to firstname.lastname@example.com. Since this event has grown to around 100 children, we can sure use your help!
Booking tickets:
Children of members of the Dutch Club of Chicago and Students of the Tul(i)p School enjoy discounted ticket prices.
Please book tickets for your 'believing' or 'knowing' child(ren) accordingly. Both groups will attend a different event on the same day in the same building.
Due to the size of this event this year, we also need to know how may adults will be accompanying the children this year. The admission for adults is free.
Click on the year to see what a fun event Sinterklaas was in 2010, 2011 and 2012!
When & Where
Lycée Français de Chicago
613 W Bittersweet Place
Sunday, December 8, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (CST)
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The Dutch Club Chicago
The Netherlands Club of Chicago has been around for 51 years. The Club strives to serve the Dutch community as well as those with interests in The Netherlands. We organize events like monthly "Happy Hours", 'Sinterklaas', 'rijsttafel' and also assist in the promotion of other cultural events such as concerts