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If only UN aid workers could marry. "Peacekeepers

Posted on May 27, 2008
If only UN aid workers could marry. "Peacekeepers 'abusing children'" The sub-title says, "Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity." Glen Reynolds observes: DOG BITES MAN: U.N...

CGI: The closest we are ever likely

Posted on May 25, 2008
CGI: The closest we are ever likely to get to time-travel Check out this video that demonstrates how the visual effects were inserted around the live actors in the HBO series "John Adams." Pretty cool.

A brave new Brideshead Revisited Ignatius

Posted on May 24, 2008
A brave new Brideshead Revisited Ignatius Insights is reporting on a remake of Brideshead Revisited, which definitely loses the singular message of Evelyn Waugh. According to Ignatius Insights: This autumn, a film of Brideshead is released for the first time, a predictably ravishing, dreamy, aristocratic swoon of a movie, directed by Julian Jarrold...

On the other hand, here is a church

Posted on May 24, 2008
On the other hand, here is a church that is looking to lose its tax exempt status. Insight Scoops - the blog of Ignatius Publishing - collects the statements of various California Catholic Bishops, which are quite different from the unctious toadying of the Episcopalian Bishops and not designed to reassure our robed masters of their undying loyalty to Caesar...

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The Democrat Party at Prayer, Part

Posted on May 24, 2008
The Democrat Party at Prayer, Part 2 Mere Comments links to the Northern California Episcopalian Bishop's laudatory comments for the decision of the California Supreme Court to strip away the people's right to choose to engage in a unique social experiment...

An Objectivist's Take on Christianity

Posted on May 23, 2008
An Objectivist's Take on Christianity and the Rise of the West This is an e-mail I sent out in response to a friend who sent me a link to The Tragedy of Theology: How Religion Caused and Extended the Dark Ages A Critique of Rodney Stark?s The Victory of Reason by Andrew Bernstein...

Church and State In 1984, the

Posted on May 23, 2008
Church and State In 1984, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a church's "absolute privilege" to discipline members ended when that member left the church. Here is an interesting passage: ¶16 While the Court in Watson unequivocally banned judicial scrutiny of purely ecclesiastical decisions,20 it has since discussed the possibility of "marginal civil court review" of these disputes...

Man bites Dog This is different;

Posted on May 22, 2008
Man bites Dog This is different; a liberal concerned about democracy being eroded by the gay marriage decision. Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings Fellow and Research Director, is concerned that cautious liberal politicians have been unfairly branded as "bigots" for favoring domestic partnership laws, but he is also concerned about democracy: Another cost is that slow drip-by-drip accretion of power

Chesteron Blog Chesterton and

Posted on May 21, 2008
Chesteron Blog Chesterton and Friends.

Ewwwww!!! Nightmare scenario made

Posted on May 21, 2008
Ewwwww!!! Nightmare scenario made possible by California Supreme Court decision. Mr. Sulu to marry boyfriend. Well, that certainly makes the immolation of two millenia of tradition worthwhile, don't you think?

The Democrat Party at Prayer Here

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Democrat Party at Prayer Here is the statement by the Episcopalian Bishop of Los Angeles on last week's California Supreme Court gay marriage ruling: Today's Supreme Court decision on same-gender relationships is important because it reflects our baptismal vow to "strive for justice and peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being" and our commitment to justice and

Odd Thomas Dean Koontz is coming

Posted on May 18, 2008
Odd Thomas Dean Koontz is coming out with a new Odd Thomas novel - "Odd Hours" - this Tuesday, May 20. Here is a "trailer" for the book: There is also a graphic novel - In Odd We Trust - coming out in June.

It is not a flying car or lunar

Posted on May 17, 2008
It is not a flying car or lunar colony, but it is pretty cool. The 21st Century has mostly been a bust from the perspective of what Walter Cronkite promised us back in 1965. In my opinion, however, the Amazon Kindle goes a long way to redeem Cronkite's promises...

Yikes! The 5 Creepiest but true

Posted on May 16, 2008
Yikes! The 5 Creepiest but true urban legends.

Next up....Polygamy as a Constitutional

Posted on May 15, 2008
Next up....Polygamy as a Constitutional Right? Despite the several times that California voters have rejected gay marriage in California, a fairly conservative Supreme Court has enacted it into law...or, more properly, discovered that the framers of the California Consitution always intended that men could marry men...

Funny Video

Posted on May 15, 2008
Funny Video

Wipe the smile from Osama's face. Beer

Posted on May 14, 2008
Wipe the smile from Osama's face. Beer with Demos has a plan. I'm going to run it past my Rotary club.

Cats and Dogs Sleeping Together... Hagee

Posted on May 13, 2008
Cats and Dogs Sleeping Together... Hagee apologizes: The Texas megachurch pastor whose past comments about the Catholic Church have caused headaches for John McCain for over two months will issue an apology to Catholics later today, according a top Christian conservative...

Established Churches in America. We

Posted on May 12, 2008
Established Churches in America. We are doing a "Reformed Church of America" property case, and I just learned that the reason that the Reformed Church of America ("RCA") does not have a "trust clause" in its "Book of Church Order" seems to arise from the fact that the RCA, which derived from the Dutch Reformed Church, may have been one of the "established churches" of New York state.

Maxims of Equity "A false promise

Posted on May 12, 2008
Maxims of Equity "A false promise can as easily, perhaps more easily, be implied from conduct as from language; indeed, as the well-worn maxim goes, actions speak louder than words." (Diamond Woodworks, Inc. v. Argonaut Ins. Co. (2003) 109 Cal.App.4th 1020, 1046...

Strangely, from a "right to choose"

Posted on May 08, 2008
Strangely, from a "right to choose" perspective this almost makes sense. According to the Telegraph, Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her imprisoned in his cellar, has complained of receiving a bad press and not being given credit for keeping his dungeon family alive for more than two decades...

On the other hand, Global Warming

Posted on May 08, 2008
On the other hand, Global Warming is probably the better alternative. "The Ice Age cometh" according to this article: A San Francisco-based scientist says that current solar activity strongly indicates that the earth is on the verge of a new ice age...

They walk among us.... James Taranto

Posted on May 07, 2008
They walk among us.... James Taranto discovers a sinister plot - the Canadians are sending "high risk pregnancies" to America because of the inadequacy of their "socialized medicine." He explains: Aw, look at the cute little Canadian babies! It's all very sweet and innocuous, right? Don't believe it...

Satellite and other data points

Posted on May 05, 2008
Satellite and other data points to cooling earth... ...and that climate change isn't "anthropogenic." "New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling": Now it?s not just the sunspots that predict a 23-year global cooling. The new Jason oceanographic satellite shows that 2007 was a ?cool? La Nina year?but Jason also says something more important is at work: The much larger and more

"Presb. Church USA launches ambitious

Posted on May 02, 2008
"Presb. Church USA launches ambitious plan to lose only 5% of members." The Minus 5 Campaign aims to lower the attrition rate in spite of the denomination's continued struggle with moral issues, which has led to even greater exodus of members. Instead of losing 12 to 15 percent of members every decade, the group will now "work in great unity and joy to lose only five percent...

On the subject of atheists who

Posted on May 01, 2008
On the subject of atheists who have never killed in the name of an atheist future... Check out this story on how the Soviet Politburo - including Michael Gorbachev - signed an "informal death warrant for Pope John Paul II. It's perfectly understandable because JPII was undermining the Soviet hegemony over Poland, and how dare he - a mere "clever ape" - stand in the way of dialectical

Soon to join Paul Ehrlich's "Famine

Posted on April 26, 2008
Soon to join Paul Ehrlich's "Famine -1975!" on the remainder tables... Remember 1975? Hundreds of millions starved to death! Remember how the civil government collapsed under the pressure and we had that military junta in Washington? And only one man saw it happening ? Paul R...

Homo Sapiens: an Endangered Species 70,000

Posted on April 26, 2008
Homo Sapiens: an Endangered Species 70,000 years ago, the human species numbered as few as 2,000 members. It is mind-blowing to think that the human species had a smaller population than my high school. I don't think that this is a new finding. It sounds like this finding relates to the "Toba Bottleneck" that occured - according to scientists - when Mt...

The only way to fly.

Posted on April 26, 2008
The only way to fly.

Bloggers in the News Hey, look!

Posted on April 20, 2008
Bloggers in the News Hey, look! I'm quoted.

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