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Life with Dignity John Peyton

Posted on September 26, 2008
Life with Dignity John Peyton is dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease. In the final months of his life, he wants to defeat the Washington Death with Dignity Law. [Via The Curt Jester]

Washington Mutual is out of business/JPMorganChase

Posted on September 26, 2008
Washington Mutual is out of business/JPMorganChase takes over. Here is the article. I need to find out who to make next month's mortgage check out to.

The last remaining Superpower no

Posted on September 26, 2008
The last remaining Superpower no more At least, according to Germany's Finance Minister: Meanwhile, German finance minister Peer Steinbruck criticised the US for failing to act in the wake of the crisis and said it would now lose its status of "superpower...

Democrats acting like Democrats What

Posted on September 26, 2008
Democrats acting like Democrats What an opportunity to entrench the reason we are in this mess into the establishment. Via the Corner: This is what Lindsey Graham said on Greta's show: ?And this deal that's on the table now is not a very good deal...

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Credit Drying Up Here is the story. ?The

Posted on September 26, 2008
Credit Drying Up Here is the story. ?The situation is like that movie trailer where a guy with a deep, scary voice says, ?In a world where credit markets are frozen, where banks refuse to lend to each other at any price, only one man, with one plan can save us,? ? said Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute in Washington...

The Diversity Recession Steve

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Diversity Recession Steve Sailer prints up Washington Mutual's last press release, which lauds its commitment to diversity. Ironic. Sailer writes: The NYT reports: Until recently, Washington Mutual was one of Wall Street?s strongest performers...

The Debate The McCain camp already

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Debate The McCain camp already has an ad based on it.

Still a Conservative William Vallicelli

Posted on September 25, 2008
Still a Conservative William Vallicelli offers some very useful thoughts in this time of confusion on what it means from a philosophical standpoint to claim to be a conservative. Good stuff.

Japan joins France, Spain and Italy

Posted on September 25, 2008
Japan joins France, Spain and Italy as a Catholic country Japan's new Prime Minister is Catholic. So, the United States and Japan have had an equal number of Catholic national leaders. Wierd. Those Jesuits are really subtle in controlling the world...

The insane man has lost everything

Posted on September 24, 2008
The insane man has lost everything but reason. The walking human cold sore - Bill Maher - has a movie coming out where he replays the role of brave village atheist lampooning the irrationality of other people's belief. (*yawn*) As this essay by Mollie Hemingway at the Wall Street Journal points out, Maher is hardly a shining example of enlightened reason: But it turns out that the late-night

The Diversity Recession Living

Posted on September 23, 2008
The Diversity Recession Living through the third year of the collapse of the housing bubble, and seeing the fallout on a daily basis, this Steven Sailor article makes a lot of sense. Sailor writes: More than a negligible amount of the blame for the mortgage meltdown can be traced back to multiculturalism: government-mandated affirmative-action lending, demographic change, illegal immigration,

Biden Comes Through The Campaign

Posted on September 23, 2008
Biden Comes Through The Campaign Spot describes how Biden has managed to deliver Pennsylvania to McCain.

Lawrence Tribe: Bad on Constitutional

Posted on September 23, 2008
Lawrence Tribe: Bad on Constitutional Law, Bad on Physics Cosmologist Frank Tipler criticizes Lawrence Tribe's recent effort to criticize strict constructionism as hopelessly "Newtonian." Isn't the problem that this is exactly the silly kind of post-modernist B...

Financial Apocalypse Now Megan

Posted on September 23, 2008
Financial Apocalypse Now Megan McArdle on how close the financial system was to a meltdown, and the mechanics of the system. Worth reading for the the basic concepts.

Checks out According to my grandmother,

Posted on September 23, 2008
Checks out According to my grandmother, I had a Great-great-grandfather who left Ireland from Londerry in Northern Ireland. According to this "Surname search" site, the Bradley surname is most highly concentrated in Northern Ireland. On the other hand, my mother's family - the Dever family - appears to be most concentrated in the west of Ireland...

Great Moments in Atheism Remember

Posted on September 22, 2008
Great Moments in Atheism Remember - oh so long ago - when Minnesota state employee P.Z. Myers was using his taxpayer funded sinecure to encourage bigotry and intolerance? One of the things that Myers found unacceptable!!!! was that his livelihood was threatened and, he claimed, one or two "God-botherers" had "threatened his life" by offering to punch him in the nose if he ever wanted to stop

The Dog Barked in the Night In

Posted on September 22, 2008
The Dog Barked in the Night In 2005, Republicans in the Senate attempted to pass legislation that would have prevented last week's near apocalypse. They were defeated on a party line vote by Democrats, most of whom were beneficiaries of Freddie and Fannie: Now that the collapse has occurred, the roadblock built by Senate Democrats in 2005 is unforgivable...

Industry Capture The phenomenon

Posted on September 22, 2008
Industry Capture The phenomenon of regulatory agencies being captured by the industries that they are supposed to requlate has been an open secret for years. A case in point is found in this Village Voice report on how Andrew Cuomo's policies at HUD pushed Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac into risky loans...

Useful Information I could survive

Posted on September 22, 2008
Useful Information I could survive for 54 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Democrats for McCain In Ohio,

Posted on September 21, 2008
Democrats for McCain In Ohio, it is a former local AFL-CIO president. And from the Hillary Campaign, McCain picks up endorsements from Hispanic leaders. Interesting. Realignment election? Some more Hillary supporters breaking ranks, including this Rothschild woman who stands up for redneck values, which is, on its face, pretty weird.

Palin E-mail Hacker Identified David

Posted on September 21, 2008
Palin E-mail Hacker Identified David Kernell is the son of a Democrat Tennessee legislator. So, this means that we ought to just "move on." It's not like it involved Republican "dirty tricks" or anything interesting.

A letter from the Supreme Knight... ...to

Posted on September 20, 2008
A letter from the Supreme Knight... ...to Joe Biden. It's worth reading. [Via Catholics against Joe Biden.]

The Swing Set The Pew Forum is

Posted on September 20, 2008
The Swing Set The Pew Forum is tracking polling data by religious tradition. Here is the latest data on Catholic support for McCain. It looks like the selection of Biden did not help Obama.

Historical Illiteracy Newt Gingrich

Posted on September 20, 2008
Historical Illiteracy Newt Gingrich has a video sending up Charlie Gibson's pompous interview of Sarah Palin.

Clever [Via Army of Martyrs

Posted on September 20, 2008
Clever [Via Army of Martyrs]

America's Crazy Uncle Check out

Posted on September 19, 2008
America's Crazy Uncle Check out this non-stop stream of blather from Joe Biden on his visit to the NFL Hall of Fame. E.g.: "As a kid, you have all kinds of dreams," Biden said. "I dreamed that someday I'd get here to the Hall of Fame, I really did...

Keep in mind that this is a church

Posted on September 19, 2008
Keep in mind that this is a church where Bishop Spong - who doesn't believe in the Resurrection - remains a bishop in good standing. The Episcopalian Church violates its canon law to depose the Bishop of Pittsburgh for being too orthodox.

Privacy Rights for Terrorists but

Posted on September 18, 2008
Privacy Rights for Terrorists but not for Republicans. Welcome again to bizarro-world, where privacy rights are protected in direct relation to how they impact Democrat party talking points. James Taranto points out: Let's step back for a moment and consider what this says about the press's attitude toward privacy...

The Democrat Party: No authentic

Posted on September 18, 2008
The Democrat Party: No authentic victim unless it's our authentic victim Writing up the Gianna Jessen post down below, I noticed on Google that there were a number of stories describing Ms. Jessen as a "claimed" or "self-proclaimed" "abortion survivor", as if her claim was in doubt...

Communism! It's the American Way! Joe

Posted on September 18, 2008
Communism! It's the American Way! Joe Biden calls for wealthier Americans to show their patriotism by engaging in government mandated redistribution of wealth: WASHINGTON (AP) ? Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that paying higher taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans...

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