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Chesterton on Progress. From Ignatius

Posted on September 22, 2010
Chesterton on Progress. From Ignatius Insight: Progress, properly understood, has, indeed, a most dignified and legitimate meaning.  But as used in opposition to precise moral ideals, it is ludicrous.  So far from it being the truth that the ideal of progress is to be set against that of ethical or religious finality, the reverse is the truth...

The Titanic Secret. Here is a

Posted on September 22, 2010
The Titanic Secret. Here is a hearsay report from the granddaughter of the only surviving officer of the Titanic about what happened that night: What then did he know that he wasn?t telling? 'After the collision,? Patten goes on, 'my grandfather went down with the Captain and Murdoch to Murdoch?s cabin to get the firearms in case there were riots when loading the lifeboats...

Explaining Christine O'Donnell,

Posted on September 22, 2010
Explaining Christine O'Donnell, "Kid Pundit." John Podhoretz has an excellent article on the making and breaking of the candidate for the Delaware Senate seat: Her standing as a kid pundit is crucial to understanding the reasons why she became a sacrificial-lamb candidate for the Delaware GOP for two cycles before 2010 -- because she had some kind of name and some kind of media experience...

Lesson: Whenever you interact with

Posted on September 22, 2010
Lesson: Whenever you interact with the police, act as if your life is in danger because it probably is. This is a horrifying story about a West Point grad whose lawful trip to Costco and lawful conduct cost him his life.

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I hate it when this happens.

Posted on September 21, 2010
I hate it when this happens.

This is either a tribute to the

Posted on September 21, 2010
This is either a tribute to the slogan "Question Authority".... ...or it's a major entry into the "tin foil hat" contest. Catholic apologist Robert Sungenis hosts a conference on the "Science of Geocentricism." For some reason, geocentrism is an important part of Sungenis' apologetics ministry...

In Britain - Where all religions

Posted on September 21, 2010
In Britain - Where all religions are equally superior to Christianity. According to this Daily Mail article, British sporting venues and restaurants have been surreptitiously serving meat slaughtered pursuant to Islamic halal purity laws: A Mail on Sunday investigation - which will alarm anyone concerned about animal cruelty - has revealed that schools, hospitals, pubs and famous sporting

Interesting Question. Francis

Posted on September 20, 2010
Interesting Question. Francis Beckwith observes: Years ago when my sister was a senior in high school and I was on the philosophy faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, her religion teacher, a feminist nun, began the semester with the instruction that because no one had the truth about morality or religion, we should be open-minded to everyone?s point of view...

It must be "George Orwell Monday." Now

Posted on September 20, 2010
It must be "George Orwell Monday." Now for another George Orwell moment, go to this Big Government post and figure out what President Obama left out of his quotation from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Here is the video of the speech...

Irony Alert. In which an "anti-hate"

Posted on September 20, 2010
Irony Alert. In which an "anti-hate" protest is shown to be filled with angry and hate-filled people. It's like a scene from Orwell's "1984" coupled with a few slogans from the "Ministry of Truth." Warning - Not Safe for the Irony-deprived.

Cats and Dogs Living Together. First,

Posted on September 20, 2010
Cats and Dogs Living Together. First, a Catholic Archbishop gives two cheers for early American Calvinism, and, now, a low-church Protestant at Evangel blog offers two cheers for Pope Benedict XVI for his poise in England: And through all this, Benedict?s leading message has been a high-level critique of the aggressive secularism that has such a death-grip on the British mind...

That's embarrassing. Tulare's

Posted on September 20, 2010
That's embarrassing. Tulare's 2009 "Woman of the Year" arrested for embezzling $700,000 from her bank.

The Combine. Chicagoboyz - I

Posted on September 19, 2010
The Combine. Chicagoboyz - I have seen a lot of people writing about Lisa Murkowski?s decision to wage a spoiler write-in campaign, to try to prevent a Tea Party-backed GOP candidate from winning the general election. Most of the writers look at it, incorrectly, in terms of Sen...

America needs to preserve its classic

Posted on September 19, 2010
America needs to preserve its classic Protestant heritage... ...according to Archbishop Chaput: One of the key myths of the American Catholic imagination is this: After 200 years of fighting against public prejudice, Catholics finally broke through into America?s mainstream with the 1960 election of John F...

No one has ever been persuaded

Posted on September 18, 2010
No one has ever been persuaded by being called an idiot. "Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait gives a very sensible talk on what should be the aims and strategies of skepticism.  Plait calls out skeptical atheists for "hubris" and "ego" and abandoning logic, which he considers to be acrimonious and bitter...

Public Service Announcement. A

Posted on September 18, 2010
Public Service Announcement. A useful tip if you see one of these and you're - ah - "carrying" is not to do what you think you should do.

Aristophanes in Hollywood. This

Posted on September 17, 2010
Aristophanes in Hollywood. This is a surprisingly literate deconstruction of the enjoyably screw-ball police comedy "The Good Guys."

Religion of Peace Update. A Muslim

Posted on September 17, 2010
Religion of Peace Update. A Muslim cleric has targeted a Seattle cartoonist as a "prime target of assassination" for her spear-heading "everyone draw Mohammed day." That's news, of course, but sadly not precedented.  And, unprecedently, no one in the official media or the government seems to work up much of a lather about Islam or Muslims for housing clerics who actually call for the murder of

We may long for the "good old days"

Posted on September 16, 2010
We may long for the "good old days" when Global Warming was a Threat. According to this Physorg.com article, the sun may be going into a "cooling period." Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining...

"What are you the best in the Country

Posted on September 16, 2010
"What are you the best in the Country at?" What a great question when someone tries to put you down for doing something that you love. Check out this Mark Shea post on the quiet heroism of small things, and in particular the short movie on the "best crossword puzzler" in the nation, who can complete the New York Times crossword puzzle in ten minutes, and has no understanding why it would take

Revising History. The popular

Posted on September 16, 2010
Revising History. The popular image of Adolf Hitler views him as something of a coward, a man who rants but when faced directly breaks down into abject fear.  This is probably due to the perception that Hitler was an archetypal bully, and bullies, according to the archetype, are cowards by nature...

Join the Counterculture - be orthodox. Leo

Posted on September 16, 2010
Join the Counterculture - be orthodox. Leo McKinstry explains why he is betraying his Ulster Protestant roots by joining the "Roman church": More pertinent, however, is that my conversion also runs counter to the spirit of our times in modern Britain, for we now live in an aggressively secular, anti-Christian country, where the Catholic Church is seen as outmoded, reactionary, irrelevant and

Don't want the American flag burned? 

Posted on September 15, 2010
Don't want the American flag burned?  Don't just stand there...behead someone! - The New First Amendment. Glen Reynolds observes: HOW CAN YOU GET A NEW JERSEY TRANSIT WORKER FIRED? Charge that he burned a Koran. Hey, it?s not like an American flag ? it?s serious...

Cute skit.

Posted on September 14, 2010
Cute skit.

DOJ Inspector General to investigate.... ....Obama

Posted on September 14, 2010
DOJ Inspector General to investigate.... ....Obama record on selective enforcement of voting rights law.

Insanity Squared. My "outrage

Posted on September 14, 2010
Insanity Squared. My "outrage of the day" was this amazing observation from Justice Breyer [via NRO and this interview]: Last week we saw a Florida Pastor ? with 30 members in his church ? threaten to burn Korans which lead to riots and killings in Afghanistan...

Oikophobia - "What makes them angry--what

Posted on September 13, 2010
Oikophobia - "What makes them angry--what makes us angry--is the bigotry of the elites." The clip where MSNBC lectured Pastor Jones like an 8 year old has sparked a nerve.  The typical response is something like "yes, he's a nutjob, but *jeez* what did MSNBC think it was doing?" James Taranto is usually very good on this pop-sociology kind of thing...

The Banality of Mediocrity. Here

Posted on September 13, 2010
The Banality of Mediocrity. Here is the transcript of Larry King's interview/carnival with Father Spitzer, Hawking's co-author Leonard Mlodinow and, for no obvious reason, Deepak Chopra. It's a weird kaffee-klatch.  Father Spitzer - who clearly has the most to contribute - is kept to minimal air time...

Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., on

Posted on September 13, 2010
Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., on Hawkings Questionable Physics.

It's either a miracle... ...or

Posted on September 12, 2010
It's either a miracle... ...or medicine isn't half as good as it thinks it is. Boy declared brain dead and ready for organ harvesting  hears declaration of death and makes recovery.

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