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Two reasons why this is so very

Posted on March 06, 2009
Two reasons why this is so very badAccording to NRO:Mark (Steyn), your point below is well-taken, as always. But perhaps today is not the day we give her the benefit of the doubt. Consider this AP story from a mere two hours ago:US gesture lost in Russian translationGENEVA (AP) ? Call it a goodwill gesture lost in translation...

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Cal Supreme Court Modifies Episcopal

Posted on February 26, 2009
Cal Supreme Court Modifies Episcopal DecisionThe Anglican Curmudgeon has been following this case.

"Wars are won by destroying the

Posted on February 24, 2009
"Wars are won by destroying the enemy's will to fight. A nation is never really beaten until it sells its women."Spengler on Iranian whores and why Iran is passing as a nation.Fascinating.Here's Spengler's latest contrarian essay, which describes why a nuclear armed Iran is so very dangerous:Their efforts to isolate Iran from the cultural degradation of the American "great Satan" have produced

Tip of the icebergFrom the Central

Posted on February 24, 2009
Tip of the icebergFrom the Central Valley Business Times - Straw buyer sentenced in mortgage fraud case:Manpreet Singh, 25, of Stockton has been sentenced to six months of home detention and five years? probation for mail fraud for her part in a mortgage fraud scheme, according to Acting U...

Does the lady really turn counter-clockwiseShe's

Posted on February 24, 2009
Does the lady really turn counter-clockwiseShe's going clockwise to me, which contradicts the personality descriptions.

St. Damien of MolokaiFather Damien

Posted on February 23, 2009
St. Damien of MolokaiFather Damien of Molokai will be canonized on October 11.The lepers of Molokai were true outcasts. Once they were diagnosed, they were immediately bundled off to the colony and no one ever spoke of them again. The colony was primitive and hopeless...

If they can work in a subplot about

Posted on February 23, 2009
If they can work in a subplot about gay-marriage, this is Oscar material[Via Mark Shea]

MismatchWho thought it was a good

Posted on February 21, 2009
MismatchWho thought it was a good idea to match up flat-lining Joy Behar against Ann Coulter? Check out the clips and see how often Behar trotted out cliche and non-sequiturs as real arguments. I like the part where Behar interrogates Coulter for saying that Barbara Walters was reading her book like she was reading from "Mein Kampf" because "wasn't it insensitive" for her to say that to a Jewish

The unpopularity of Obama's lifting

Posted on February 17, 2009
The unpopularity of Obama's lifting of oversea's abortion restrictionsGallup has this poll showing the relative popularity of Obama's early decisions:The unpopular decisions cater to his base, and may spell trouble for him in the future.

Well, as I always say, if we're

Posted on February 16, 2009
Well, as I always say, if we're discussing indulgences, we are not discussing the ordination of active homosexual bishops.I like it that we set the tripwire of controversy at the 16th Century.Here is a round-up of views on the so-called re-emergence of indulgences...

Back at'cha, BarryCongressman Schock's

Posted on February 15, 2009
Back at'cha, BarryCongressman Schock's explains why he won't vote for the Porkulus Bill despite the President's sophomoric grandstanding.

Generation Narcissus: the Worthless

Posted on February 15, 2009
Generation Narcissus: the Worthless GenerationThe ever-discriminating attention of Cranky Greg has alighted on this article about the fall of another Boomer pleasure palace. This one is a Las Vegas site called "The Great Indoors," which is rapidly turning into the desert it once was...

Words to live byHanlon's razor:Never

Posted on February 15, 2009
Words to live byHanlon's razor:Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.I hadn't realized the idea was institutionalized. For years one of my operative rules for analyzing cases has been something like, "when a fact pattern can be explained by willful conspiratorial malice bordering on genius or negligent stupidity, assume the latter, but keep an open mind...

Not in your textbooksDon McLaren

Posted on February 14, 2009
Not in your textbooksDon McLaren at American Catholic shares this anecdote about Lincoln and "separation of church and state":It's so good, I'm going to cut and paste most of it:On July 4, 1864 Abraham Lincoln had much to pre-occupy his mind. Grant?s drive on Richmond had bogged down into a stalemated siege to the south of Richmond around the city of Petersburg...

Why should we be surprised about

Posted on February 14, 2009
Why should we be surprised about this from a guy who has never held a job for as long as four years?Or who spent more time campaigning for President than working as Senator?Mark Steyn writes on the "Obamateur Hour":It suggests a perverse kind of genius that the 44th president did not wait for a single ?event? to throw him off course...

Where's the outrage? Mark Shea

Posted on February 11, 2009
Where's the outrage? Mark Shea has this tagged under "If only teachers could marry" and gets some worthy insights about the human condition out of it. According to This article, teachers and coaches in the Chicago school system have been documened as engagung in physical abuse of children without job termination: CBS 2 informed former Chicago Public School CEO Arne Duncan of our investigative

What the hey??? I've been puzzled

Posted on February 09, 2009
What the hey??? I've been puzzled by the interest in Nadya Suleman - the woman who has 14 children by in vitro fertilization - particularly the part about the state investigating the clinic responsible. Suleman doesn't strike me as a model for responsible motherhood, being unmarried without a husband or father to help in a herculian task of child-rearing...

The Return of Welfare Obama's

Posted on February 09, 2009
The Return of Welfare Obama's bill calls for weakening work requirements and doubling welfare rolls. Generations of Democrat voters are waiting to be made.

Be like an atheist... ...and

Posted on February 08, 2009
Be like an atheist... ...and make your own bus sign.

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