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Napoleon on Religion. According

Posted on June 19, 2010
Napoleon on Religion. According to his secretary Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne: During the negotiations with the Holy Father Bonaparte one day said to me, "In every country religion is useful to the Government, and those who govern ought to avail themselves of it to influence mankind...

Why is the sky blue? In case you

Posted on June 18, 2010
Why is the sky blue? In case you were wondering. Now, try to paraphrase it so that a ten year old would understand.

Funny but depressing. Unfortunately,

Posted on June 18, 2010
Funny but depressing. Unfortunately, even if these interviewers were cherry-picked, Dayummm, but there's a whole lot of stupid out there. It also makes me want do the same interviews in London and Melbourne and see how the Aussies and Brits compare.

How to contrive a best seller. Recycling

Posted on June 17, 2010
How to contrive a best seller. Recycling a ghost-writer's leftover plot seems to be the key to Glen Beck's novel. So, that's how it's done.

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"Love is never wrong." At least

Posted on June 17, 2010
"Love is never wrong." At least that's what I read on a bumper sticker next to the "Coexist" sticker. Man arrested for having sex with a picnic table.  Apparently, it was near an elementary school. End Picnictableamouraphobia.  Picnictableamours are just as entitled to a reduced tax bracket as so-called normal marriages.

Dhimis East and West. VDH's Private

Posted on June 15, 2010
Dhimis East and West. VDH's Private Papers has an interesting article on how an Evangelical television station in Cairo gets away with broadcasting truly unflattering claims against Muhammed while Comedy Central can't broadcast a cartoon depiction of Muhammed...

"Winter is Coming." It looks like

Posted on June 15, 2010
"Winter is Coming." It looks like HBO is turning George R.R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones" into a movie starring Sean Bean. Winter Is Coming

30 million "spare" men, a dictatorship

Posted on June 15, 2010
30 million "spare" men, a dictatorship that American intellectuals romanticize, a global economic crisis, and now this. According to author Gordon C. Chang, "senior Chinese officers, on the other hand, have no trouble telling us how they really feel": In February, Colonel Meng Xianging promised a ?hand-to-hand fight with the U...

"Etheridge is unfit for high office.

Posted on June 15, 2010
"Etheridge is unfit for high office. It is a point that applies to many incumbent congressmen..." Powerline offers an analysis of the Etheridge video: Instead Etheridge went ballistic.Perhaps the single most obvious point demonstrated by the video is that Etheridge is unfit for high office...

The text of Obama's speech... ...with

Posted on June 15, 2010
The text of Obama's speech... ...with the obligatory blame it on Bush section: When Ken Salazar became my Secretary of the Interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency. But it?s now clear that the problems there ran much deeper, and the pace of reform was just too slow...

Drunk-blogging the President's... ...oil

Posted on June 15, 2010
Drunk-blogging the President's... ...oil disaster speech. Key insights: 5:20PM Seriously, I feel so unsatisfied. 5:20PM There wasn?t even enough meat to make proper fun of. Proper ass-kicking fun. 5:21PM I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us? I dunno? stuff...

Amazon delivers. Amazon has just

Posted on June 15, 2010
Amazon delivers. Amazon has just delivered a softwar package that allows Kindle users to organize their books into collections. Since I've got 17 pages of books, articles, magazines and pdfs on my Kindle, that is a very good thing.

Beyond Media Bias. Jim Geraghty

Posted on June 15, 2010
Beyond Media Bias. Jim Geraghty writes: The Washington Post, the newspaper than mentioned ?Macaca? in approximately 100 articles, op-eds, editorials about the 2006 Virginia Senate race between George Allen and Jim Webb, watches the video of Rep. Bob Etheridge, North Carolina Democrat, physically assaulting a questioner and concludes it warrants three paragraphs on page C3, in the Reliable

A culture of life, a culture of

Posted on June 15, 2010
A culture of life, a culture of death. Back when I was a libertarian I was opposed to "paternalism."  That included suicide.  I thought that it was a terrible imposition for one person to decide that another person did not have the power or ability to choose their important life decisions, such as killing themselves...

"We have a smart intellectual tradition"....but

Posted on June 14, 2010
"We have a smart intellectual tradition"....but we give our people comic books. We are better than that. Father Barron on cruddy catechesis (starts about 3:40.) Via Ignatius Insights.

Why God became man. Your questions. 

Posted on June 14, 2010
Why God became man. Your questions.  Anselm's answers.

Well, thanks to Obamacare, at least

Posted on June 14, 2010
Well, thanks to Obamacare, at least we will be in good health when we starve because Social Security is broke. Social Security suddenly goes into a negative cash flow, according to Michael Barone: Here?s something I didn?t know, from financial blogger Bruce Krasting (via John Ellis): Social Security tax receipts for the first half of 2010: $346...

Asking a Democrat Congressman if

Posted on June 14, 2010
Asking a Democrat Congressman if he supports the "Obama Agenda" provokes an assault. Here is what happened when Congressman Bob Etheridge (D, NC), on his way to a fundraiser headlined by Nancy Pelosi, was asked by some college students if he supported the "Obama agenda...

Fighting Pseudo-Knowledge - Right-wing

Posted on June 13, 2010
Fighting Pseudo-Knowledge - Right-wing Dan Brown/Mormon Division. Francis Beckwith points out that Glenn Beck's appraisal of history needs to be taken with a grain of salt, particularly after listening to this: So, according to Beck, Constantine put together the bible and persecuted dissenting Christians which caused the Essene Jewish community to hide the Dead Sea scrolls in a cave 300 years

When saying "sorry" means "I will

Posted on June 11, 2010
When saying "sorry" means "I will allow abortion, gay marriage and women priests." Time magazine's recent cover was a mass-marketing cheap shot catering to prejudice. The opening sentence of the cover story began As Get Religion notes: By the way, if you attempt to read the Time cover story from beginning to end, if helps to keep asking a basic question: What do the editors mean when they say

Red Dawn - New and Improved!!! Now,

Posted on June 11, 2010
Red Dawn - New and Improved!!! Now, with Chinese Commies. Cousin Dan may not be selling out to the Libs: If we could wave a magic wand and do just one thing that would bring true happiness to the right-wing blogosphere, what would it be? Make sure Nancy Pelosi got tossed out as speaker of the House after the Democrats lose big in the November elections? Guarantee that the next Sean Penn movie

Europe Declines; Asia Rises. Catholic

Posted on June 10, 2010
Europe Declines; Asia Rises. Catholic population of Korea passes 10% mark. The number of Catholics in South Korea has passed 10 percent for the first time since the faith was established here in 1784. According to the latest figures from the Catholic Bishops´ Conference of Korea, Catholics numbered a little over five million, or 10...

Religion of Peace Update. 7 year

Posted on June 10, 2010
Religion of Peace Update. 7 year old executed by Taliban as spy. Fundamentalist driver supplied by Turkish government kills Turkish bishop after the bishop cancelled a trip to the Vatican to avoid the driver trying to assassinate the Pope.  The driver is said to have shouted ?Allahu Akbar? a number of times after the murder, despite having presented himself as a Catholic...

"I am shocked ? shocked ? to find

Posted on June 10, 2010
"I am shocked ? shocked ? to find that gambling is going on..." Acorn workers implicate Democrats in voter fraud according to FBI. Round up the usual suspects.

Irony Alert. Repairing Antarctic

Posted on June 10, 2010
Irony Alert. Repairing Antarctic ozone hole may cause global warming.

Dude, when I was in High School

Posted on June 10, 2010
Dude, when I was in High School we were making fun of Governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown." If this guy becomes governor, it's going to be like a bad flashback. Zombie captures the point of Governor Moonbeam's refusal to leave the public spotlight: And as for Jerry Brown, I?m awestruck by his audacity...

Vote against the "Jungle Primary." It's

Posted on June 08, 2010
Vote against the "Jungle Primary." It's probably a bad sign that an inveterate conservative like myself would even consider voting for Proposition 14 on the general idea that it might possibly make traditional politicians' lives more difficult.  I came down against it based on rejoinders to the supposed advantages that Prop 14 is supposed to usher in, which went as follows: (a) Prop 14 will

Thoughts to entertain before voting..... Ever

Posted on June 08, 2010
Thoughts to entertain before voting..... Ever since I got out of high school it seems like we've been pouring more and more into our schools for less and less.  We passed the California Lottery on the promise that millions would flow into public schools...

No, no, no...the message is that

Posted on June 08, 2010
No, no, no...the message is that pregnancy is dangerous and the Pill is liberating. Broadway actress sues manufacturer of birth control pill for stroke: No one expects to have a stroke at 27, least of all Broadway actress Brenda Hamilton, who is an understudy for ?Wicked...

The Prom King President Talks about

Posted on June 08, 2010
The Prom King President Talks about "Ass-Kicking." Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Dan Foster at NRO interprets: To review, the President of the United States is patting himself on the back for caring enough about an Old Testament-scale natural disaster to visit the scene eighteen days into it, and for caring about it before those lazy armchair

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