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Book/CoverThis is cool.Susan Boyle

Posted on April 15, 2009
Book/CoverThis is cool.Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talentby dwarthy

A judge looks at PilateOne professional

Posted on April 13, 2009
A judge looks at PilateOne professional critiques the performance of another and finds it wanting.In examining these facts objectively, I cannot imagine a more unjust judge than Pilate or a more unjust judgment than the one rendered by him. Unable to hold to the correct and just decision he initially made concerning Christ?s case, Pilate attempted to shift responsibility for making a decision,

The inmates are running the asylumThis

Posted on April 13, 2009
The inmates are running the asylumThis post about how animal rights activists are in charge of enforcement law and consider dog breeding to be a moral offense is amazing. What's pathetic is how these lunatics use their power - both official and unofficial - to ruin lives...

When prayer costsThe stuff of which

Posted on April 13, 2009
When prayer costsThe stuff of which martyrs are made.

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If only Protestant pastors could

Posted on April 11, 2009
If only Protestant pastors could marry - part of a continuing seriesThe former pastor of Sierra Baptist Church in Northeast Fresno has been sentenced to 36-years in prison. Bonine plead guilty to molesting two girls over several years.Tragic. Sad. Disappointing...

Behind the media wall: Report card

Posted on April 10, 2009
Behind the media wall: Report card on Obama's foreign tripIt's not looking good according to this Newsbusters' post on a Charles Krauthammer column:In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed:"Rules must be binding.

Let them eat cakeWhite House press

Posted on April 10, 2009
Let them eat cakeWhite House press secretary Robert Gibbs makes it clear that he thinks that he can use Jedi mind trick to explain that what was obviously a demeaning act of fealty by an American president was something else:After all, who are you going to believe, the Hope/Change administration or your lying eyes...

A Very High Weirdness ScoreBilly

Posted on April 10, 2009
A Very High Weirdness ScoreBilly Bob Thornton comes across as a real prima donna in this interview about his musical activities. The prima donna element is pretty clear from the way that the members of his band are squirming uncomfortably as the "boss" is attempting to tank their real jobs...

50 things every 18 year old should

Posted on April 09, 2009
50 things every 18 year old should knowPretty good list.There ought to be one about "18 things every 50 year old should know," but it would be taken up with things like "get a colonoscopy."

"... the jaw-dropping spectacle

Posted on April 08, 2009
"... the jaw-dropping spectacle of a president of the United States bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia."Even a leftist like Camille Paglia is stunned by Obama's missteps: Obama's staffing problems are blatant -- from that bleating boy of a treasury secretary to what appears to be a total vacuum where a chief of protocol should be...

It wasn't a bow...yea, that's the

Posted on April 08, 2009
It wasn't a bow...yea, that's the ticket...he was playing 'pull my finger' with King AbdullahAn anonymous Obama aide has denied that Obama's obvious bow was a bow:The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets...

Predictable - Newsweek is doing

Posted on April 07, 2009
Predictable - Newsweek is doing its annual "Christianity sucks" piece for Easter.Here's the article.We see this every year.Not that it's bias or anything. Because every year at tax time they do "Government sucks" article and on the 4th of July they do an "America sucks" article and on Martin Luther King day they do a "Victimization-exploiters suck" article and on Valentine's Day they do a "Pop

Speaking "Austrian"......is like

Posted on April 06, 2009
Speaking "Austrian"......is like speaking "Californian."President Obama explains how he doesn't know the word for "wheeling and dealing" in "Austrian."Most people think that the language spoken in Austrian is commonly known as "German."To be fair, everyone has these kinds of moments, but after years of jumping on every purported malapropism of Bush, Palin and Quayle as evidence of their "

Hitchens v. Craig Debate on GodDoug

Posted on April 05, 2009
Hitchens v. Craig Debate on GodDoug Geivett outlines the debate between Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig and he concludes:Hitchens can have no excuse for dropping arguments when he knows?or should know?exactly what to expect. Suppose one replies that William Craig is a more experienced debater and a trained philosopher, while Christopher Hitchens is a journalist working outside the

Even left-wing European newspapers

Posted on April 04, 2009
Even left-wing European newspapers are taking shots at Obama muddled communication styleThe Guardian notes: Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (?all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis...

Oh, come on! Can't anyone teach

Posted on April 03, 2009
Oh, come on! Can't anyone teach him anything about what it means to be an American?The flag does not dip to dictators and free born Americans do not bow to any monarch ever.But there is our President bowing to the Saudi King.Great way of giving away over 200 years of tradition that many Americans have fought to defend.

Marriage redefined by elite in

Posted on April 03, 2009
Marriage redefined by elite in IowaNRO reports that the Iowa Supreme Court has discovered that "marriage" means "a pairing of any two individuals who want to say that they are married."There is no explanation at this time why the "pairing" is limited "two" people.

Diocese of Fresno is not liable

Posted on April 03, 2009
Diocese of Fresno is not liable in molestation caseFrom the Fresno Bee:A Fresno jury this afternoon said the Diocese of Fresno was not liable for the molestation of two brothers by their hometown priest. The jury concluded the two brothers, George and Howard Santillan, were molested by Monsignor Anthony Herdegen, but said the diocese did not know or had no reason to know about the incidents...

If only Little League coaches could

Posted on April 02, 2009
If only Little League coaches could marry.Part of a continuing series on the fallacy of publicity.

Julian Baggini Condemns the "New

Posted on April 02, 2009
Julian Baggini Condemns the "New Atheists"Baggini wrote "Atheism - A very short introduction."">Here's the essay.Baggini makes some reasonable points. For example:However, there is much more to religion to the metaphysics. To give a non-exhaustive list, religion is also about trying to live sub specie aeternitatis; orienting oneself to the transcendent rather than the immanent; living in a moral

"If people don't have Aquinas,

Posted on April 01, 2009
"If people don't have Aquinas, they will follow any ass who comes along."Dawn Eden has a post on why it is a good idea to be careful in attending seminars to enhance one's spirituality. The post is worth reading for the final sentence.

Of Liberal Hypocrisy and Double

Posted on April 01, 2009
Of Liberal Hypocrisy and Double StandardsVictor Davis Hanson in NRO writes:Team Obama: The HHS nominee and tax-plagued Sebelius ($8,000 short) was the sequel to the mega-tax-plagued Tom Daschle ($140,000 short), who followed disclosures about Treasury Sec...

Calvinist RomanceOf course, after

Posted on March 31, 2009
Calvinist RomanceOf course, after that it gets totally depraved.

Speaking of FascismObama fires

Posted on March 30, 2009
Speaking of FascismObama fires the president of General Motors, appoints a "Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers" and promises that the United States will stand behind GM's warranties.Speaking historically, what is the difference between this and what Mussolini advocated as "fascism"?

The Road to SerfdomFather Thomas

Posted on March 30, 2009
The Road to SerfdomFather Thomas Berg and Michael Augros at NRO document the return of American Know-nothingism - and the incipient fascism - of recent legislative attacks on the Catholic church.

Keith Olbermann - America's MoronCheck

Posted on March 30, 2009
Keith Olbermann - America's MoronCheck out this article and ask yourself whether Ron Burgundy was based on Olbermann.

Any work of literature is better

Posted on March 30, 2009
Any work of literature is better if it includes....zombies!Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Paradise LostA class reading M

Posted on March 29, 2009
Paradise LostA class reading Milton.

Great Moments in Diplomacy, a Continuing

Posted on March 29, 2009
Great Moments in Diplomacy, a Continuing Series - Who painted Our Lady of Gaudelupe?Yet, another gaffe by Secretary of State Clinton that would have been front page news and late night television fodder if it had involved the Bush administration.Mollie Hemingway at Get Religion points out this story about Hillary Clinton's trip to Mexico:I thought I?d wait to write this post until I saw

Socially Autistic AtheistsHere

Posted on March 26, 2009
Socially Autistic AtheistsHere is Bill Maher trying to justify Obama's "Special Olympics" snipe while exposing the mindset behind the familiar "they'd be better off aborted before birth" trope.According to Maher, how dare Sarah Palin claim that the disabled are "the most special and unique people"! Doesn't she understand that the disabled aren't special or unique because...

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