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The Corruption of Celebrity. Eli

Posted on July 07, 2010
The Corruption of Celebrity. Eli Johnson - the father of Sarah Palin's grandson - admits that he lied about the Palins: He?s trying to make amends with the Palins, apparently, by admitting that he made up all that crap he said about them. And where else would a prevaricating media creature like Levi Johnston make his confession but People magazine? ?Last year, after Bristol and I broke up, I

The Benefit of the Doubt. According

Posted on July 07, 2010
The Benefit of the Doubt. According to Jessica Wakeman, "Al Gore Doesn?t Have To Fight To Get Laid, And Other Things You?ll Learn From Gore Defenders": Here are four prominent men who have been accused of sexual assault: former vice president Al Gore, filmmaker Roman Polanski, and football players Ben Roethlisberger and Lawrence Taylor...

A theory that explains all of the

Posted on July 06, 2010
A theory that explains all of the data. To wit, paranoia according to Steven den Beste: Get out the tinfoil hats, folks, and let us delve into the realm of raving paranoia. Is there a different way to read the news lately? The sane answer: they?re blithering incompetents...

Speaking of people still fighting

Posted on July 06, 2010
Speaking of people still fighting the battles of the 17th Century... ...Ian Paisley is being raised to the House of Lords where he will be known as Lord Bannside of North Antrim. It is passing strange that with all of the political correctness that infects England - such as arresting Christian street preachers who defend traditional sexual morality or villifying people who speak against Islamic

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Presaging a new round of "Church

Posted on July 06, 2010
Presaging a new round of "Church disaffilation" lawsuits... ...the PCUSA moves to "redefine" marriage: MINNEAPOLIS- This week's General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will consider redefining marriage to include same-sex couples and allowing ministers to perform same-sex weddings...

The Glorious 5-Year Plan is On

Posted on July 05, 2010
The Glorious 5-Year Plan is On Schedule. James Taranto offers this pithy observation about economic news reporting during a Democrat administration: When a Democrat is in the White House, media coverage of the economy tends to be a lagging indicator of bad news and a leading indicator of good news--which is another way of saying that, as we noted yesterday, reporters' usual approach can be

Liberal Fascism. The Left cracks

Posted on July 05, 2010
Liberal Fascism. The Left cracks down on leftists who don't love Obama enough. With a Democrat in the White House whose approval ratings have fallen well below 50 percent, liberal websites are entering some new territory--how to handle users who are reliably liberal but are not fans of President Barack Obama...

Papias and Polycarp and Irenaeus...oh,

Posted on July 05, 2010
Papias and Polycarp and Irenaeus...oh, my.... The comments to my post on Ehrman have turned into a good discussion on whether, and why, we can accept the tradition that Mark wrote the Gospel of Mark.  Along the way there are discussions about the trustworthiness of tradition and testimony and the role of testimony in history...

Wow!  We're from the Governement

Posted on July 05, 2010
Wow!  We're from the Governement and we're here to help. From Planet Gore, this report on your government in action: ?Obama?s Big Oil Spill Blunder? July 01, 2010 11:30 AM By Greg Pollowitz Dick Morris writes: It?s one thing to say that Obama?s administration showed ineptitude and mismanagement in its handling of the Gulf oil spill...

Top 20 Gulf Photos that the Obama

Posted on July 05, 2010
Top 20 Gulf Photos that the Obama Administration... ...does not want you to see. So, you aren't seeing them. Could you imagine how often we'd be seeing them if a Republican was in the White House?

The Tenth Beatitude:  Blessed are

Posted on July 05, 2010
The Tenth Beatitude:  Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you for my names sake... There has been a singularly modern effort to ruin the reputation of Pope Pius XII.  Pius has been depicted as an anti-semite, but he was a man who in the face of Nazi Anti-Semitism said that we are spiritually all Semites, putting a marker on the inseparability of Christianity from Judaism, a marker

Irony, thy name is Darwin, or,

Posted on July 04, 2010
Irony, thy name is Darwin, or, Become an Atheist, and ruin you chance of getting a date. P.Z. Myers reflects on "the women problem," i.e., why women don't like the new atheists: It's an odd way to put it, I know, but it gets your attention. I could have called this the Atheist and Skeptic Problem, which is more accurate, but leads people to start listing all of our problems, starting with how

Happy 4th of July from the 91st

Posted on July 04, 2010
Happy 4th of July from the 91st (out of a 100) Most Patriotic Cities in the United States. Fresno ranks high in auto theft and drunk driving and low in quality of life and patriotism in virtually every Men's Health ranking of cities.  This time it looks at voter turn-out, flag sales, civic involvement and veteran's payment and Fresno ranks 91 out of 100...

Simple changes that the Obama administration

Posted on July 04, 2010
Simple changes that the Obama administration could implement to clean up the BP oil disaster... .... but which it refuses to implement. Relax EPA regulations and the Jones act, according to the Wall Street Journal. Next, the Obama administration can waive the Jones Act, which restricts foreign ships from operating in U...

For some people the 17th Century

Posted on July 04, 2010
For some people the 17th Century has yet to end. Reformed blogger David Meyer's announcement that he intends to convert to Catholicism has generated the usual time-tunnel trip to Calvin's Geneva.  One Reformed blogger calls him "apostate" and another accuses Meyer of not adequately writing a tome justifying every bit of historical argument he thinks he can toss out...

High Speed Rail Criticized. Reason

Posted on July 03, 2010
High Speed Rail Criticized. Reason magazine points out a recent study on projected ridership. And the new High Speed Rail chief - Roeloff von Ark - gets a mention in this Reason article: New CHSR Authority CEO Roelof van Ark will be starting out with a hefty $375,000 salary, making him the third-highest-paid non-university official in California...

The nice thing about having a Democrat

Posted on July 02, 2010
The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that the awful news is surprisingly good. James Taranto observes: One minuscule compensation for an awful economy is that, with a Democrat in the White House, it makes for some rather amusing journalism as putatively objective reporters try to put the best face on bad news...

Too bad.  I used to like Popular

Posted on July 02, 2010
Too bad.  I used to like Popular Science... ...and now it's managed to turn into another left-wing hack magazine. Global warming is caused by cows, Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe and Bjorn Lomborg. I thought Ronald Reagan was deemed dumb, dumb, dumb when he opined that cows were a major cause of CO2 emission...

To err is human, but to really

Posted on July 01, 2010
To err is human, but to really screw things up royally, it takes an expert. This is an interesting article on the author of a book that points out how often the experts are just plain wrong: To read the factoids David Freedman rattles off in his book Wrong is terrifying...

Of Tribal Loyalty and the Corruption

Posted on July 01, 2010
Of Tribal Loyalty and the Corruption of Power. The Al Gore Scandal continues apace.  Ann Althouse has these observations: The woman said Gore's "Mr. Smiley Global Warming" persona differed from his actions and made her afraid.... After the alleged incident, the woman said she was dissuaded from contacting the police by liberal friends of hers, whom she refers to as "The Birkenstock Tribe,"

Cat Lassie.

Posted on June 30, 2010
Cat Lassie.

Laws with unintended consequences. The

Posted on June 30, 2010
Laws with unintended consequences. The Endangered Species Act leads to more killings of endangered species, boxing gloves lead to more brain injuries, and other great moments in forgetting that human beings are more perverse than lawmakers imagine.

Cool Latin Commencement Speech. Scrutinies

Posted on June 30, 2010
Cool Latin Commencement Speech. Scrutinies explains: So, this is made of awesome. Via The Deacon's Bench. If I am reading this correctly, graduating senior Mary Anne Marks won an open speech-writing competition that is a Harvard tradition. And guess where she's headed next! In the fall, Marks is headed to Ann Arbor, Mich...

Oh, that's the reason for Al Gore's

Posted on June 30, 2010
Oh, that's the reason for Al Gore's curious silence in the face of the sexual assault accusations against him... ...the alleged victim claims to have DNA evidence. Curious and curiouser. But fortunately Gore is not a hypocrite about family values, so there is no story here, as there would have been when accusations are made against Republicans.

A Scandal that is "Hiding in Plain

Posted on June 29, 2010
A Scandal that is "Hiding in Plain Sight." Powerline blog describes the history of the New Black Panther scandal, and has the original videos, to boot.  The post ends: This is a scandal that, thanks to Rubin, von Spakovsky, and Adams, is now hiding in plain sight...

The Black Panther Case, Liberal

Posted on June 29, 2010
The Black Panther Case, Liberal Racism and the End of Equal Justice. J. Christian Adams - the Justice Department attorney ordered not to cooperate with the Civil Rights Commission in the New Black Panther case - has an essay describing the internal workings of the Elections Division of the Justice Department with respect to the decision to dismiss a case of clear voter intimidation, which had

Intellectual Integrity and Bart

Posted on June 29, 2010
Intellectual Integrity and Bart Ehrman. I originally like Bart Ehrman's work.  I thought that his courses on the Teaching Company were very good.  However, as I've listened to Ehrman's popular stuff, such as his debates and interviews, I've come to wonder how much I can trust Ehrman...

Feminist Women's Rights Attorney

Posted on June 28, 2010
Feminist Women's Rights Attorney finally comes down against Gore on sex-assault claim. It takes Wendy Murphy a lot ink to get there - and one suspects it wouldn't have involved such soul-searching if the accused wasn't politically correct - but she gets there eventually, fueled in part by Gore's failure to deny the charges, which Murphy suggests might be backed up by DNA evidence: Regardless,

Nemesis. David Weigel describes

Posted on June 28, 2010
Nemesis. David Weigel describes his fall from grace: But I was cocky, and I got worse. I treated the list like a dive bar, swaggering in and popping off about what was ?really? happening out there, and snarking at conservatives. Why did I want these people to like me so much? Why did I assume that I needed to crack wise and rant about people who, usually for no more than five minutes were

In future classes on decision-making,

Posted on June 28, 2010
In future classes on decision-making, much ink will be spilled on why Obama rejected the Dutch offer to provide its superior oil clean-up technology to help in the BP oil spill. The Financial Times describes the BP oil spill as the "avertible catastrophe": Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off...

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