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Liberals resorting to bigotry,

Posted on October 28, 2010
Liberals resorting to bigotry, again. This has to be the worst campaing season ever. People who resort to appeals to religious prejudice, whether it's the inane "Aqua Buddha" ad or the recent attempts to use Catholic imagery as an unspoken reason to vote against someon deserve to lose...

John Mortimer on the development

Posted on October 27, 2010
John Mortimer on the development of the First Amendment. The author of Rumpole of the Bailey - who was a practicing attorney - wrote this: [speaking in a debate about pornography] A test of pornography was once adumbrated by the Supreme Court of the United States...

Great moments from "The Shrew." Barbara

Posted on October 27, 2010
Great moments from "The Shrew." Barbara Walters looks like she's sucking a lemon as she suggests that Joy Behar tone it down a bit.

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch Predicts

Posted on October 26, 2010
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch Predicts Republican Blow-out. This falls in the man-bites-dog category. Koch writes: I predict a Republican victory of tsunami proportions on November 2nd. For the last six months in various public forums, I have said that Republicans will take both the House and Senate...

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Minnesota Democrat Party runs "The

Posted on October 26, 2010
Minnesota Democrat Party runs "The Most Anti-Catholic Political Ad You'll Ever See." According to National Catholic Register: A Democrat Party supporting independent non profit group has sent out perhaps THE most anti-Catholic political advertisement I?ve ever seen...

The Counter-cultural Colbert. Kathryn

Posted on October 26, 2010
The Counter-cultural Colbert. Kathryn Jean Lopez points to this under-reported bit on Stephen Colbert's appearance on The View. And with that, Colbert dropped the shtick and focused on something anyone who watches his show regularly has seen glimpses of: his faith...

The Euphemism Treadmill. - The

Posted on October 26, 2010
The Euphemism Treadmill. - The reason why we have to keep relearning what is and is not acceptible to say in polite society. According to the Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia: Euphemisms often evolve over time into taboo words themselves, through a process described by W...

"One year later, Cash for Clunkers

Posted on October 25, 2010
"One year later, Cash for Clunkers was still a dumb, economically harmful idea." From Bubble Meter: IN THE market for a used car? Good luck finding a bargain: The price of ?pre-owned?? vehicles has climbed considerably over the past year. ... No great insight was needed to realize that Cash for Clunkers would work a hardship on people unable to afford a new car...

Accusations of Homophobia.... ...they're

Posted on October 25, 2010
Accusations of Homophobia.... ...they're not for everyone. Democrat party leader "outed" for homophobic slur against Andrew Breitbart. Usual defenders of homosexual interests oddly silent.

Brent Boger for Clark County Prosecuting

Posted on October 25, 2010
Brent Boger for Clark County Prosecuting Attorney

Washington Post decides grassroots

Posted on October 25, 2010
Washington Post decides grassroots Community Organizing is bad... ...if it is done by orthodox Catholic blogs. According to Rachell Zoll at the Washington Post: Catholic bloggers aim to purge dissenters -- Pressure is on to change the Roman Catholic Church in America, but it's not coming from the usual liberal suspects...

Global warming ... is there nothing

Posted on October 25, 2010
Global warming ... is there nothing it cannot do.... ...such as cooling the world by a degree? I'm being facetious because there are some projections of a quick, substantial global cooling because a "Super La Nina cycle": A super La Nina is developing Historically, these strong La Nina events drop the Earth?s average temperature around one degree Fahrenheit, and the drop comes quickly...

A Protestant's Protest Against

Posted on October 25, 2010
A Protestant's Protest Against Sola Scriptura. Caleb Roberts at Genu(re)flections explains why he no longer accepts the doctrine of Sola Scriptura.  Part of his explanation: Now this question of the certainty of Scripture is not one that has been ignored by the various Reformed confessions...

Evolution in Action. I have a

Posted on October 24, 2010
Evolution in Action. I have a vague recollection of reading in National Geographic a story in my youth about a two-toed "Ostrich" tribe.  As the years have gone by, I've convinced myself that the story was nonsense, maybe something I saw on the cover of a National Enquirer...

Theology made somewhat understandable. The

Posted on October 24, 2010
Theology made somewhat understandable. The Parable of the Boat: Illustrating Differences Between Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Arminianism, and Calvinism

United States Government Declares

Posted on October 23, 2010
United States Government Declares that Stigmatizing Muslims as "Scary" and "Un-American" is Perfectly Alright. Ha, ha!  Fooled you! Obviously it would be horribly bigoted to stigmatize Muslims. Saying something like that could get you fired. The government would never permit Muslims to be described as a threat to our way of life...

Great Moments in the Liberal Tradition

Posted on October 23, 2010
Great Moments in the Liberal Tradition of Public Participation... ...which doesn't count if you are conservative. "Election Fraud Uncovered by Patriotic Citizens ? Who Promptly Get Sued" Talk about denial! A group of liberal activists is making the media rounds, assuring reporters and editors that election fraud is a fairy tale...

Oofta! Tim Pawlenty teaches President

Posted on October 23, 2010
Oofta! Tim Pawlenty teaches President Obama some useful Minnesotan phrases.

Tail Gunner Joe was Right! Rachel

Posted on October 23, 2010
Tail Gunner Joe was Right! Rachel Maddow affirms that it was perfectly hunky-dory for Hollywood to blacklist Communists because, while one has a right to free speech, no one has a right to a paid job in Hollywood. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As Jim Treacher says: Maybe Williams does think those feelings are unacceptably irrational and need to be

Payback....she's a bitch. Juan

Posted on October 22, 2010
Payback....she's a bitch. Juan Williams calls for defunding NPR. How cool is to watch the employer who wrongfully terminated your employment reap the whirlwind?

If only middle-aged Swedish women

Posted on October 22, 2010
If only middle-aged Swedish women were allowed to marry.  If only middle-aged Swedish women were allowed to be priests. 20 Women Arrested in Swedish Child Porn Raid Swedish police say they have arrested 23 people in a nationwide raid against a child pornography ring, including 20 women...

Crazy Republicans. On the other

Posted on October 22, 2010
Crazy Republicans. On the other hand, you get some crazy amateur political talk from some amateur polticians like GOP congressional candidate Stephen Broden who says "violent overthrow of government is 'on the table.'" In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising "is not the first option," but it is "on the table...

Airplane's David Zucker lampoons

Posted on October 22, 2010
Airplane's David Zucker lampoons Boxer's "Call me Senator" line. Call Me Madam Joe from RightChange on Vimeo.

The Totalitarianism of Modern Liberalism

Posted on October 22, 2010
The Totalitarianism of Modern Liberalism - "NPR treats a journalist who has worked for them for ten years with less regard, less respect for the value of independence of thought and embrace of real debate across political lines, than Nixon ever displayed...

The Return of the Blacklist - Leftist

Posted on October 21, 2010
The Return of the Blacklist - Leftist NPR Fires Pundit Juan Williams for Badthink Thoughtcrime. Tolerance is all too often the space between breathing out one orthodoxy and inhaling another. Juan Williams fired for his comment on the O'Reilly Factor that he is often uncomfortable on planes when he sees people in Muslim garb because of his knowledge that Muslims have been responsible for the

Great stuff. O'Reilly and Williams

Posted on October 21, 2010
Great stuff. O'Reilly and Williams are on the O'Reilly Factor and they are pissed. O'Reilly is convinced that it is the Fox connection that motivated NPR inasmuch as Soros gave NPR $1.8 million last week. Williams has observed that he doesn't fit into NPR's "box" because he's not the predictable black liberal...

More Thoughtcrimes being Punished

Posted on October 21, 2010
More Thoughtcrimes being Punished by the Ministry of Truth - Democrat Division. How is this not an unconstitutional prior restraint on political speech?  I understand that the First Amendment is doing a lot of work supporting a penumbra for abortion rights and gay marriage, which it doesn't mention, but - jeez! - can't it be given a day off to actually protect, you know, free speech? Democratic

Newsflash - Fox News is now positioned

Posted on October 21, 2010
Newsflash - Fox News is now positioned as the champion of free speech and journalistic integrity... ...by giving former NPR reporter a $2 million dollar contract. Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes handed Williams a new three-year contract Thursday morning, in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable bump up from his previous salary, the Tribune Washington Bureau has learned.

Public Service Announcement: "Some

Posted on October 20, 2010
Public Service Announcement: "Some men might feel that chivalry obligates a man to say yes, but the law does not." Sorry, guys, but you can't use the excuse that you slept with your attractive female co-worker because it was required by law. Issue: can a man ever view a sexual proposition from an attractive woman as "unwelcome"? The trial court in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v.

If people don't have Aquinas, they

Posted on October 20, 2010
If people don't have Aquinas, they will follow any idiot who comes along. Science Fiction author and Thomist Mike Flynn does a great job of dismantling yet another bullshit claim that humans are just machines.  The proximate cause of Flynn's essay is a Telegraph article entitled "Neuroscience, free will and determinism: 'I'm just a machine' - Our bodies can be controlled by outside forces in the

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