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Greg Gutfield...  says "Anger

Posted on March 27, 2010
Greg Gutfield...  says "Anger is a Right." "So as the anger surrounding the health care bill escalates, many in the media are reporting how the anger surrounding the health care bill is escalating! Now I've been down this road so many times I could navigate it blindfolded and covered in peanut butter...

Not Quite Watergate The charges

Posted on March 27, 2010
Not Quite Watergate The charges against James O'Keefe - he of Acorn discrediting fame - have been reduced to the misdemeanor of "entering a federal building under false pretenses." No word on whether all the legacy media sources that ran the arrest as front page news will run this development on the front page.

History and Invention. Orthocatholic

Posted on March 26, 2010
History and Invention. Orthocatholic has a very interesting post on the Evangelical blind-spot -i.e., the Eastern Christian churches: This ?blind spot? often becomes real apparent when Evangelicals discuss historical theology and only mention Catholic writers from the West...

Obamacare - Making old people kiss

Posted on March 26, 2010
Obamacare - Making old people kiss their retirement drug coverage benefits good-bye. The AP is just realizing that Obamacare will actually cost the government more money as higher taxes and the elimination of tax breaks will cause private companies to dump their medical benefits: The health care overhaul will cost U...

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Too true Want to really learn

Posted on March 25, 2010
Too true Want to really learn something?  Then teach it. As Apologetics 315 explains: The Problem: You think you know the subject. Your study it. You are familiar with it. You are immersed in it. But only when you attempt to teach the subject will you realize where you fall short...

Watch the Congress-critter avoid

Posted on March 25, 2010
Watch the Congress-critter avoid saying that the IRS will fine people for not complying with Obamacare It seems that the new Democrat rule-book is to interrupt when questions are asked and then accuse the interviewer of interrupting.

A Universal Abhorence of Abortion

Posted on March 25, 2010
A Universal Abhorence of Abortion Wintery Knight links to this Reason to Stand post that gleans the anti-abortion statements from the great religious traditions - and, honestly, some are great not-so-religious traditions: There are five kinds of evil Karma which are difficult to extinguish, even if one were to repent of them...

Moron of the Week Why would Jesse

Posted on March 25, 2010
Moron of the Week Why would Jesse James be such a total dirtbag moron as to cheat on his wife Sandra Bullock? OK, I'll admit that I didn't even know that Sandra Bullock was married to this obvious lowlife - and bad on her for poor life choices - but, still, he's a moron...

Persecution Watch Pakistani man

Posted on March 25, 2010
Persecution Watch Pakistani man burned alive for converting to Christianity: Islamabad (AsiaNews) - Arshed Masih died last night in hospital from the serious injuries - burns covering 80% of his body ? which the 38 year old Pakistani Christian suffered when he was set on fire because he refused to convert to Islam...

How about some more government

Posted on March 25, 2010
How about some more government debt we can't pay? Social Security is at the tipping point where it is paying out more in benefits than it takes in from taxes. Oh, joy. Interesting how this news broke this week, rather than last week.

Obama Snubs Israeli Prime Minister

Posted on March 25, 2010
Obama Snubs Israeli Prime Minister for Dinner with Michelle and Girls. According to this Telegraph article: The snub marked a fresh low in US-Israeli relations and appeared designed to show Mr Netanyahu how low his stock had fallen in Washington after he refused to back down in a row over Jewish construction in east Jerusalem...

Democrats in Support of Viagra

Posted on March 25, 2010
Democrats in Support of Viagra for Child Molesters The Dems voted to table a motion that would have amended Obamacare to prevent child molesters from getting government paid-for Viagra. Statement of Purpose: To reduce the cost of providing federally funded prescription drugs by eliminating fraudulent payments and prohibiting coverage of Viagra for child molesters and rapists and for drugs

Republican Whip: Threats and Violence

Posted on March 25, 2010
Republican Whip: Threats and Violence are not a Partisan Political Issue Representative Cantor shares the fact that he's been threatened and had a bullet shot through the window of his campaign office last week.  His concern is that the Dems use of the issue will just ratchet-up these activities.

Great speech to an empty house. This

Posted on March 25, 2010
Great speech to an empty house. This is one of the best public speeches I've heard.

"He was so much nicer after he

Posted on March 24, 2010
"He was so much nicer after he died." According to this account by atheist/philosopher A.A. Ayer's son in law, after choking in the hospital and being clinically dead for four minutes, Ayer's confessed that he had had an experiene of God that required him to rewrite his books...

One of those "D'oh *Slap Head*

Posted on March 24, 2010
One of those "D'oh *Slap Head* Moments" I've always thought it was a weird coincidence that the price for a gallon of gas have always been close to that of a pack of cigarettes.   Right now, for example, a gallon of gas is approaching $4 per gallon and a pack of cigarettes, I understand, is around $4 a pack...

Liberal Fascism Watch - Canadian

Posted on March 24, 2010
Liberal Fascism Watch - Canadian Content Edition This is old news by now, but going into my "Holding Paper - Liberalism" file is the example of Ann Coulter being warned by Francois Houle - Provost of the University of Ottawa - that if she exercises that thing Anglophone's call "free speech," Canada may exercise that thing called "having her arrested...

Some more unnecessary surgery for

Posted on March 22, 2010
Some more unnecessary surgery for narcissistic people The Chastity Bono post has been getting a lot of attention, but this kind of absurd breast augmentation surgery is right up there in terms of "people who need psychiatric attention." The woman in the picure - "Stripper Chelsea Charms" - has augmented breasts clocking in at collective 52 pounds...

Score another one for the Spiegel

Posted on March 22, 2010
Score another one for the Spiegel Argument. According to Vox Day, skeptic James Randi has stepped out of the closet.  This follows Christopher Hitchens' recent self-outing. Day writes: Let me first make it clear that I don't think there's any reason to mock the guy for his idiosyncrasy...

An Educational Moment Last night

Posted on March 22, 2010
An Educational Moment Last night at New Covenant Church's "Theology and History" group, the issue of the historical move from "objective" theological truth to "subjective" theological truth came up.  Someone brought up the issue of the "real presence" in the Eucharist as an example...

Crossing the Rubicon Victor Davis

Posted on March 22, 2010
Crossing the Rubicon Victor Davis Hanson explains where we find ourselves: President Obama has crossed the Rubicon with the health care vote. The bill was not really about medicine; after all, a moderately priced, relatively small federal program could offer the poorer not now insured, presently not on Medicare or state programs like Medicaid or Medical, a basic medical plan...

*Gulp* I'm posting this because

Posted on March 22, 2010
*Gulp* I'm posting this because it is better to have things out in the open, rather than get blind-sided at some inopportune time. Also, it ties into the ongoing "worship war" over at Thomisticguy's blog about whether Mormons "worship" Jesus and Catholics "worship" the saints...

One thing about having a Democrat

Posted on March 20, 2010
One thing about having a Democrat in the White House.... ...is that we learn more about Constitutional law. We learned about Impeachment and the Electoral College under Clinton and now, under Obama, we are going to learn about "how a Bill becomes a Law...

Obama Foreign Policy Snub our

Posted on March 20, 2010
Obama Foreign Policy Snub our allies, grovel before our enemies, according to Robert Kagan: The contretemps between President Obama and Israel needs to be seen in a broader global context. The president who ran against "unilateralism" in the 2008 campaign has worse relations overall with American allies than George W...

A Window into Dante's Hell. It

Posted on March 19, 2010
A Window into Dante's Hell. It would take a heart made of stone not to laugh at the cry of pain issuing from Elizabeth Wurtzel's long, windy essay on how after a lifetime of faithfless pursuit of her own appetites she finds herself at age 40 to be alone, old and unhappy...

Americans What a great story about

Posted on March 16, 2010
Americans What a great story about the American girls' Soccer team's human concern for their Haitian opponents: Bree said she and her teammates started strategizing almost immediately about how to handle the Haitian girls. They weren't thinking of what kind of offense to run or how to shutdown Haiti's leading scorer...

"He" was such a cute little girl It's

Posted on March 14, 2010
"He" was such a cute little girl It's like watching a train wreck. According to JammieWearingFool, "Now 'he' just looks like John Candy reincarnated."

Absolute Morality Peter Hitchens: One

Posted on March 14, 2010
Absolute Morality Peter Hitchens: One of the problems atheists have is the unbelievers' assertion that it is possible to determine what is right and what is wrong without God. They have a fundamental inability to concede that to be effectively absolute a moral code needs to be beyond human power to alter...

Interesting Peter Hitchens explains

Posted on March 12, 2010
Interesting Peter Hitchens explains his relationship with his brother.

A Teachable Moment. Victor Davis

Posted on March 12, 2010
A Teachable Moment. Victor Davis Hansen uses actor Tom Hanks' recent statements as a vehicle for exploring salient facts about WWII that don't fit within the "America is Irremediably Racist" liberal narrative. Hanks made the following sententious observation: ?Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ?yellow, slant-eyed dogs? that believed in different gods...

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