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DOJ Lawyer Quits over Obama Administration

Posted on May 19, 2010
DOJ Lawyer Quits over Obama Administration handling of Black Panther Voter Intimidation Case. According to NRO: From the Washington Examiner. J. Christian Adams, an attorney in the DOJ's Voting Rights section, has apparently resigned over the government's stonewalling in the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case...

Secularism on Parade. From the

Posted on May 19, 2010
Secularism on Parade. From the Great White North - home to a tolerant and polite people - comes this story: Speaking at a recent pro-life conference in Quebec City, the Cardinal said that abortion is a "moral crime" and that it is unacceptable even in the case of rape...

Remember when liberals used to

Posted on May 19, 2010
Remember when liberals used to say that there were "all kinds of families?" Men marrying men is "normal," but having nine children makes you "queer," according to Michael Kinsley. Michael Kinsley: "Now that the sex lives of Supreme Court justices have become grist for commentators, we are finally free to discuss a question formerly only whispered about in the shadows: Why does Justice Antonin

A.D. 381 - A well-written but fundamentally

Posted on May 19, 2010
A.D. 381 - A well-written but fundamentally biased look at the formation of Christendom. An Amazon book review. Charles Freeman?s ?A.D.381? is an interesting and engaging historical examination of the relatively over-looked period during which Christianity consolidated its hold over the Roman Empire...

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If a conservative is a liberal

Posted on May 19, 2010
If a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, a libertarian is a conservative... ...who has been treated like part of the prison population by a cop. Which, honestly, is happening more and more. Chronicles of Culture writer Thomas Fleming observes: ?Click it or Ticket? is the current slogan...

Fighting Pseudoknowledge. Mark

Posted on May 18, 2010
Fighting Pseudoknowledge. Mark Shea explains the niceties of Crimen Solicitationis: Similarly, one of the latest memes to arise is the claim that Crimen Sollicitationis (a 1962 Vatican letter dealing with the crime of solicitation in the confessional) threatens victims of abuse with excommunication for denouncing or providing testimony against an abusive priest...

Pseudoknowledge. That's the term

Posted on May 18, 2010
Pseudoknowledge. That's the term that Mark Shea uses for things that have the quality of 'truthiness', such as siphons working by air pressure, Venus being hot because of the "Greenhouse Effect" and the murder of 46 million - i.e., the entire population of Europe - by the Dominicans during the Inquisition: The 46 million (or 5 million) killed by Dominicans, or the Vatican, or Constantine?s

Graduating Class Hangs Self.

Posted on May 18, 2010
Graduating Class Hangs Self.

Motion in Limine #1: The fact that

Posted on May 18, 2010
Motion in Limine #1: The fact that she was having an affair is entirely irrelevant to her claim that Defendant ruined her marriage.  Women sues cell phone company for accidental disclosure of her adultery to husband. A Toronto woman is suing cellphone provider Rogers Wireless for a breach of privacy that led to the end of her marriage...

It's the Carter Administration

Posted on May 17, 2010
It's the Carter Administration all over again. Jay Nordlinger is outraged: We, the United States, have been having human-rights talks with China. Our side is apparently led by Michael Posner, an assistant secretary of state. I will quote from an Associated Press report: Posner said in addition to talks on freedom of religion and expression, labor rights and rule of law, officials also

A Public Service Announcement from

Posted on May 17, 2010
A Public Service Announcement from the Ministry of Truth. Jonah Goldberg has these interesting thoughts on the different treatment of the "Truthers" and the "Birthers." As I wrote last year, I find it amazing that the "Birthers" are considered more dangerous and evil than the "Truthers...

Like laboratory rats pressing the

Posted on May 17, 2010
Like laboratory rats pressing the peddle for that next cocaine tablet.... ...internet use makes us happy. Or so those scientists say.

Barrack Obama - War Criminal. According

Posted on May 16, 2010
Barrack Obama - War Criminal. According to 2000 actors and prominent liberals: NEW YORK ? US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes...

Richard Nixon: Savior of the World. The

Posted on May 16, 2010
Richard Nixon: Savior of the World. The Telegraph is running an article on how, in 1969, Richard Nixon "blocked" a Soviet strike on Communist China by indicating that America would strike at Soviet targets if Russia nuked China. This is actually an old story...

Where's the Rage? From Reason

Posted on May 16, 2010
Where's the Rage? From Reason magazine: I live in Manhattan, three blocks from Times Square. As near as I can determine, I was walking with a friend about thirty feet from the car bomb on May 1st right around the time it was supposed to detonate. Except for the technical incompetence of a Muslim dirtbag named Faisal Shahzad, I and my friend would likely be dead now...

Payback's a Bitch. San Diego fears

Posted on May 16, 2010
Payback's a Bitch. San Diego fears an Arizona boycott.

This is Odd.

Posted on May 15, 2010
This is Odd.

16 will get you 20 - except maybe

Posted on May 15, 2010
16 will get you 20 - except maybe in France. Roman Polanski liked them young on two continents.  According to Don Surber: Seven years after he fled the USA instead of going to prison for his rape and sodomy of a 13-year-old girl, Roman Polanski ?forced himself? on a British actress days after her 16th birthday, Agence France Presse reported...

Irony Alert: Obama decries "finger-pointing." ...according

Posted on May 15, 2010
Irony Alert: Obama decries "finger-pointing." ...according to Hot Air, Obama's decrying of the "spectacle" of finger-pointing by British Petroleum and others involved in the Gulf oil spill sounds hollow coming from the "finger-pointer in chief." Mirabile dictu, even CBS noted the irony with a headline entitled "Angry Obama Seeks to Deflect Blame for Gulf Oil Spill Crisis...

This is why my "To be re-read"

Posted on May 15, 2010
This is why my "To be re-read" pile is larger than my "To be read" pile. According to Malcolm Gladwell - a journalist and author: Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time...

We need a "Protestant Seat" on

Posted on May 14, 2010
We need a "Protestant Seat" on the Supreme Court. The Volokh Conspiracy notes: A lot of people have noted that if Elena Kagan is confirmed to replace Justice Stevens, the Supreme Court will have no Protestants for the first time. Instead, there will be six Catholics and three Jews...

We are about to leave the "What

Posted on May 14, 2010
We are about to leave the "What could it hurt?" stage of History. Four in Ten American Babies are Born Outside of Marriage. The number of children born outside marriage in the United States has increased dramatically to four out of ten of all births...

Late-term abortion doctor admits

Posted on May 13, 2010
Late-term abortion doctor admits the bleeding obvious fact... ...he is killing human life.  Because he is an ordained Baptist minister turned Unitarian, he even prays that the spirit of the aborted baby be returned to God. I presume that his justification is that he is doing a small evil - murder of a human who can't object to being murdered - in order to prevent a larger evil - making 9

Obviously, the answer is that Communists

Posted on May 13, 2010
Obviously, the answer is that Communists were just "liberals in a hurry." Claire Berlinski asks, why isno one is interested in the Soviet archives, much less the well-documented Communist atrocities that make the Nazis look like amateurs in the mass-murder game? She writes: In the world?s collective consciousness, the word ?Nazi? is synonymous with evil...

I blame Global Warming. Jupiter

Posted on May 13, 2010
I blame Global Warming. Jupiter loses its southern red stripe. Which is weird, because the Jovian weather phenomenon last for hundreds of years. This one happened when Jupiter was out of sight from the Eath - darnit! Everything is changing - Venus isn't a "hot house planet"...

The Madness Season in China. It

Posted on May 12, 2010
The Madness Season in China. It seems that there have been a number of copycat mass murders of Chinese children at daycares and schools by knife-wielding by "frustrated middle-aged men."  The most recent one occurred on May 10 and resulted in 7 deaths and 20 injuries...

Muslim Student Association Representative

Posted on May 12, 2010
Muslim Student Association Representative Immolates Self in Public. Watch this video for a lesson in how a professional like David Horowitz deals with passive-aggressive double-talk.  After dealing with the MSA rep's claim of fear of persecution, Horowitz puts to her the statement of a Hamas leader that he wants every Jew to go to Israel so that he won't have to hunt them down...

Clearing up more misconceptions. Siphons

Posted on May 12, 2010
Clearing up more misconceptions. Siphons don't work because of air pressure, but because of gravity. I didn't know that. Also, it's my understanding that airplances largely fly because of the air pushing up on the wing rather than being lifted by the Bernoulli effect, but recently I was told that was wrong...

Catholic Bishop fined in Costa

Posted on May 11, 2010
Catholic Bishop fined in Costa Rica for urging Catholics to vote in accordance with Catholic teachings. Here is the story. Costa Rica?s Electoral Supreme Court has ordered Bishop Jose Francisco Ulloa to pay damages for encouraging the faithful to cast their votes in manner consistent with Catholic teachings...

The Falsifiable Darwin. Wintery

Posted on May 11, 2010
The Falsifiable Darwin. Wintery Knight points to a peer-reviewed paper that suggests that living cells normally don't "evolve" by creating new structures, rather they "evolve" by simplifying.  Here is Wintery's synopsis of the paper: Co-authored with microbiologist Ralph Seelke at the University of Wisconsion Purpose: study whether bacteria can evolve the ability to fix a broken protein (e...

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