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He said what? According to this

Posted on January 28, 2010
He said what? According to this NRO piece: In a meandering speech in which he seemed somewhat smug but not really in command, he scolded the Supreme Court, Congress, and ?Washington.? He struck a surprisingly confrontational tone ? a somewhat unusual tone for a president at a showcase event ? toward the Republican side of the chamber...

Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas Genius,

Posted on January 28, 2010
Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas Genius, scholar, polymath, scholastic, mystic, poet and lover, pray for us. Among other hymns, Aquinas wrote the haunting Pange Lingua, which is often used as the closing hymn on Holy Thursday as the sanctuary is emptied and the church goes dark - He also wrote some of the most profound meditations on love...

Love that Burt Former client

Posted on January 28, 2010
Love that Burt Former client Burt Rutan launched into an anti-global warming diatribe in a magazine interview: "I whip out my list of questions, but before I get to the first, Rutan blindsides me. "Which magazine are you from again?" I tell him. "OK, well, I won't talk to Scientific American," he says, "They improperly covered man-made global warming...

Scientists misbehaving. The University

Posted on January 28, 2010
Scientists misbehaving. The University of East Anglia broke the law by failing to produce climate change data in response to Freedom of Information Act, acccording to the "Information Commissioner's Office", which is apparently the British bureaucracy charged with enforcing the British FOIA...

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State of the Union Speech I just

Posted on January 27, 2010
State of the Union Speech I just suggested to my partner that we turn the State of the Union speech into a drinking game where we take a shot every time Obama uses the word "I" or tells an illuminating anecdote about how his personal experience allowed him to transcend the narrow limitations of race or partisanship...

A tradition with all the depth

Posted on January 27, 2010
A tradition with all the depth of linoleum H.E. Barber does not like the American evangelical mega-church.  The first clue is probably not her use of the phrase "butt-end of Christianity,"  which is certainly an earthy and startling phrase that deserves a response by someone: This is the future of middle-class US Christianity, according to the latest American Religious Identification Survey (

Obama and the Presidential teleprompter

Posted on January 27, 2010
Obama and the Presidential teleprompter meet with the President's staff. The Anchoress has an intriguing post on the troublesome question of why we see the President's travelling kit - podium and teleprompter - being displayed in the oddest places, such as classrooms and presidential staff meetings: I?ll be honest, my first reaction to both of those pictures was that they were photoshops.

Edwards and Wife Legally Separated And

Posted on January 27, 2010
Edwards and Wife Legally Separated And apparently Mr. and Mrs. Edwards openly discussed how much her cancer diagnosis would help his polling. These people are psychopaths. But thank heavens for the media in getting us this information when it really mattered...

File this under "Public Service

Posted on January 26, 2010
File this under "Public Service Announcement" The good people at OK Cupid have crunched the numbers and come up with the conclusion that the best strategy for women on Computer Dating sites - and you know who you are - who are seeking a "return on investment" in "increased hit counts" - and isn't amazing how dirty those terms sound when they are in quotes? - is to show cleavage: "As you would

File this under "When America's

Posted on January 26, 2010
File this under "When America's most trustworthy Leftist is making fun of Obama's detachment from the common people, the war over image is lost." Note that Stewart is mostly attacking Obama from the Left, but the cracks about Obama's living like royalty and the fact that his followers are "not getting a car" is telling.

Hope and Change and Nukes. So,

Posted on January 26, 2010
Hope and Change and Nukes. So, maybe, California, and specifically the "bone dry" Central Valley will get those nuclear power plants: "Despite its long opposition to nuclear power, the Golden State may soon be building several nuclear power plants - because they are environmentally friendly...

Obama addresses elementary school

Posted on January 25, 2010
Obama addresses elementary school class...with teleprompter Obama rolls out teleprompter in talk to 6th Grade class. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the 'Race To The Top' program at the Graham Road Elementary School January 19, 2010 in Falls Church, Virginia...

Video Fisking of Rt. Rev. Schori Midwest

Posted on January 25, 2010
Video Fisking of Rt. Rev. Schori Midwest Conservative Journal fisks a sermon by Presiding Bishop Schori. Here's the sermon. Best lines: "You are odd.  Tell me you are joking."

Secret History Humberto Fontava

Posted on January 25, 2010
Secret History Humberto Fontava corrects the historical record behind the movie "Che." For example, according to Fontava, Che and Fidel fought only one guerrilla war, and it was one that they brutally suppressed: Now, on to Cuba?s genuine guerrilla war, fought from 1960-66 and?this cannot be repeated often enough? AGAINST the Fidel/Che regime...

"Evidence is the way you know anything

Posted on January 24, 2010
"Evidence is the way you know anything that you know." ? Richard Dawkins Of course, this leads to the question of how we know that evidence is the only way we know that we know anything? Is there evidence for knowing that the only way to know anything is through evidence...

State Controlled Media Patterico

Posted on January 23, 2010
State Controlled Media Patterico at Hot Air reports on some "astroturfing" that the mainstream media seems to be complicit in: Someone appears to be doing a little Astroturfing for Obama.In recent days, a letter defending Obama has appeared in dozens of newspapers throughout the country ? all signed by an ?Ellie Light...

Aquinas Question 111 The audio

Posted on January 22, 2010
Aquinas Question 111 The audio kicks in after a minute.  I'm still figuring out who to use Livescribe. 1.21.2010 10:27 PM brought to you by Livescribe

A Nation of Indians Ruled by Swedes From

Posted on January 22, 2010
A Nation of Indians Ruled by Swedes From an e-mail: What First Amendment? By Andy Pugno, General Counsel, ProtectMarriage.com Over the last couple of days, we have been treated by the plaintiffs to astonishing intrusions into areas supposedly protected by the First Amendment, including religious freedoms and the political rights of free speech and association...

Leftist Bigots want to show that

Posted on January 22, 2010
Leftist Bigots want to show that Catholics and Baptists are Bigots That is about as ironic as being "defriended" by a San Francisco Lefty who thought there should be a "national discussion" on religion and women, but who didn't "give a damn" about the reasons that might exist for religious beliefs in question...

Jewish Paper Publishes Defense

Posted on January 22, 2010
Jewish Paper Publishes Defense of Pius XII From Haaretz: On April 4, 1933, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the Vatican secretary of state, instructed the papal nuncio in Germany to see what he could do to oppose the Nazis' anti-Semitic policies.On behalf of Pope Pius XI, Cardinal Pacelli drafted an encyclical, entitled "Mit brennender Sorge" ("With Burning Anxiety"), that condemned Nazi doctrines

The National Enquirer Deserves

Posted on January 22, 2010
The National Enquirer Deserves the Pullitzer It did more independent journalism than any mainstream media source in 2008. The mainstream media is such a joke.

Deep Thought From de Lubac's "The

Posted on January 21, 2010
Deep Thought From de Lubac's "The Discovery of God" via Father Powell: Infinite intelligibility--such is God. The incomprehensible is the opposite of the unintelligible. The deeper we enter into the infinite, the better we understand that we can never hold it in our hands...

Socialized medicine - to liberals

Posted on January 20, 2010
Socialized medicine - to liberals it is like Sauron's Ring It doesn't matter what it costs to get the ring, it doesn't matter if turns you into a hateful misanthrope rejected by everyone else, it doesn't matter if it gives you bad breath, jock itch and athelete's foot...

The Fuhrer learns of Scott Brown's

Posted on January 20, 2010
The Fuhrer learns of Scott Brown's victory. "Now we know why Obama won't release his grades....Bush got "C"s....Obama probably failed 'lunch'....Should have stuck with Hillary."

Just about the dumbest and most

Posted on January 20, 2010
Just about the dumbest and most painful thing you are likely to read about Aquinas this Century. How Aquinas turned (orthodox)Catholicism into Romanism. So these Trent men canonized his teachings (and later he was made an angel doctor) and essentially dismissed all the other great Saints and Theologians who had gone before because of ...

The Left is a Cult Read this post

Posted on January 20, 2010
The Left is a Cult Read this post by anonymous bloggers who have been personally threatened by the Left netroots for daring to break ranks over the Massachusetts election. And, you know what, this tactic does have an immediate psychological and financial impact...

Controversial New Research According

Posted on January 20, 2010
Controversial New Research According to this study: "Pot-smoking teenaged girls are more likely to have sex than those who don?t, a new study suggests. Drunkenness also increases sexual activity in teens, especially when boys and girls are allowed to spend too much time together, according to a report by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada released yesterday...

Mom's Hometown Supports Brown The

Posted on January 19, 2010
Mom's Hometown Supports Brown The Mayor of Quincy Massachusetts has endorsed Brown.

Cats living with Dogs According

Posted on January 19, 2010
Cats living with Dogs According to Jonah Goldberg, Coakley has conceded. Who would have thought that the annointed Senate seat of the sainted "liberal lion" would be lost in one-party Massachusetts? If true - if not a rumor - how badly have the Democrats miscalculated? What possessed them to double down on socializing 1/6th of the economy in the face of obvious voter hatred for their project?

Take a bath, Hippies. John Ratzenberger(aka

Posted on January 18, 2010
Take a bath, Hippies. John Ratzenberger(aka Cliff Claven from Cheers) remarks at a Scott Brown rally: "This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock ? I built the stage...

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