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Posted on March 12, 2010
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Mussolini Executed. More historical

Posted on March 12, 2010
Mussolini Executed. More historical newsreel material. Consider the joy expressed by the narrator in describing the death of Mussolini and the end of his corrupt regime. Could you imagine a newsman working up that kind of emotion over the death of Saddam Hussein...

1945 - Japan Signs Unconditional

Posted on March 12, 2010
1945 - Japan Signs Unconditional Surrender This is historically fascinating newsreel footage.

Pelosi on Health Care: Congress

Posted on March 11, 2010
Pelosi on Health Care: Congress has to pass the bill so that they can find out what is in it? From Best of the Web: Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned up yesterday at the Washington conference of the National Association of Counties, and she engaged in a little cheerleading for ObamaCare: You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other...

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Old Style Feminist Surprised to

Posted on March 10, 2010
Old Style Feminist Surprised to Discover that Culture of Death leads to Nihilism, Narcissism and Stupidity. Slate has an old-style feminist, Mary Anne Sorentino, commenting on the "twittering abortionette," aka Angie the Anti-theist, which was discussed below...

Women civilize men, which is why

Posted on March 10, 2010
Women civilize men, which is why gender differences really, really matter. Jonah Goldberg writes in favor of feminism: Forgetting the question of decency and morality for a moment, there?s the matter of national interests. Female equality seems to be a pretty reliable treatment for many of the world?s worst pathologies...

Women on Top This does not help

Posted on March 10, 2010
Women on Top This does not help break the "glass ceiling." Navy Captain Assaulted Crew, Report Says WASHINGTON --- A Navy captain lost her command because she berated and assaulted her crew, not because she led her guided missile cruiser on a drag-race with another U...

This is so cool Forget the Ipad. 

Posted on March 09, 2010
This is so cool Forget the Ipad.  I want the Microsoft Courier.

Spot the Idiot - Sean Penn Liberal

Posted on March 09, 2010
Spot the Idiot - Sean Penn Liberal Fascist Edition Why do Hollywood types seem to have a perenial man-crush on Leftwing dictators?  And how do they justify in their own minds their own morphing from libertarians promoters of freedom to supporters of repression for speech-crimes? At the end of a discussion of Haiti on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, actor Sean Penn went on a rant in defense of

Sad News Mark Shea advises: Michael

Posted on March 09, 2010
Sad News Mark Shea advises: Michael Spencer, the Internet Monk... ...is on his final journey. His cancer is terminal and, barring a miracle, he is estimated to have between six months and year to live. Your prayers for him would be appreciated. Father, give Michael the grace to endure what is yet to come and to open his heart to cooperate as fully as he can with the grace of your Son Jesus

Further Proof of the Spiegel Thesis Water

Posted on March 09, 2010
Further Proof of the Spiegel Thesis Water is wet.  The sky is often blue.  And the atheists who are the most virulently evangelical about the "evils" of religion are the most likely to really be saying that the chief evil is acting as a witness for the proposition that the end of human existence is not unfettered sexual license...

The Science v. Faith Wars Vox

Posted on March 09, 2010
The Science v. Faith Wars Vox Day nails the lesson of the Galileo trial as a purported example of religion's intolerance of science: So Galileo disobeyed and betrayed the Pope, then publicly attacked him and made him look like a fool. The fact that Galileo wasn't simply beheaded on the spot, as would have likely been the case if he had treated any other medieval ruler this way, is testimony to

Communio This is the first part

Posted on March 08, 2010
Communio This is the first part of Summa, Question 114 - the assault of the demons against men. You know you are going to want to listen to this one because it is so darn practical in case you ever find yourself needing to fight off a rogue demon. ST 114a brought to you by Livescribe And here is the second part: Aquinas ST 114brought to you by Livescribe

Gunga Dan on Obama and Watermelons I'm

Posted on March 08, 2010
Gunga Dan on Obama and Watermelons I'm sure that Dan Rather didn't mean anything racist by his comment that President Obama "couldn't sell watermelons", but I'm also sure that if the same thing had been said by a conservative, we'd never hear the end of it.

The Glories of Socialized Medicine English

Posted on March 07, 2010
The Glories of Socialized Medicine English man dies of dehydration as nurses ignore him. He went so far as to call the police to beg for water.

Real Scientists Critique the Pseudo-science

Posted on March 06, 2010
Real Scientists Critique the Pseudo-science of Climatology It seems that the use of the term Greenhouse Effect may have caused people to improperly "reify" an abstraction. To wit, the warming that occurs in a greenhouse is not comparable to what happens in the atmosphere as a matter of basic physics...

Free Will v. Determinism One of

Posted on March 06, 2010
Free Will v. Determinism One of the most oddball - but salutory - decisions ever made or not made by a Pope was Clement VIII settlement of the dispute between the Jesuits and Dominicans on whether humans have free will.  Clement's decision was basically - after much consultation of learned opinion through the Congregatio de auxiliis - to not decide the issue but to instruct the Jesuits and

Cui Bono? Could it be that that

Posted on March 06, 2010
Cui Bono? Could it be that that Climatefraud is actually a way of allowing some people to make money?  Joanne Nova says "follow the money." Money for Sceptics: Greenpeace has searched for funding for sceptics and found $23 million paid by Exxon over 10 years (which has stopped)...

Let's Enjoy a Healthy Round of

Posted on March 06, 2010
Let's Enjoy a Healthy Round of Schadenfreude You have to love it when countries that ignore their voters and ram through their utopian agenda are hoisted by their own petard: Making matters worse is the debt (in all senses) that the Greek crisis owes to the establishment of the euro, the single currency for which German politicians ignored their voters and junked the deutsche mark in a

Muslim Preacher Converts to Russian

Posted on March 03, 2010
Muslim Preacher Converts to Russian Orthodoxy This interview should do a lot to balance out the sense of recent years that the future belongs to Islam, particularly when the convert attests to the insignificant number of Christian to Muslim converts compared to conversions the other way...

Concerning those who seek to escape

Posted on March 03, 2010
Concerning those who seek to escape "praise or blame" ... ...may not go to hell, according to Dante, but they don't see Heaven either: He thus to me: "This miserable fate Suffer the wretched souls of those, who lived Without or praise or blame, with that ill band Of angels mix'd, who nor rebellious proved, Nor yet were true to God, but for themselves Were only...

Formerly Catholic Notre Dame refuses

Posted on March 03, 2010
Formerly Catholic Notre Dame refuses to publish a column stating Catholic teachings on homosexuality Here's the column by Notre Dame professor Charles E. Rice.  The column consists of quoting the Catechism and then stating some non-controversial - from a Catholic standpoing - observatiosn about Catholic doctrine...

Outrage of the Day - Obama again

Posted on March 03, 2010
Outrage of the Day - Obama again screws over the Brits THis qualifies for the OOTD: Argentina was celebrating a diplomatic coup yesterday in its attempt to force Britain to accept talks on the future of the Falkland Islands, after a two-hour meeting in Buenos Aires between Hillary Clinton and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner...

When it's humans versus animals,

Posted on March 02, 2010
When it's humans versus animals, I side with the humans. Joseph Bottums at First Things: Meghan McArdle reports on the Seaworld press conference this afternoon about the killer whale that killed a trainer earlier this week: When asked by a reporter about the fact that this same whale has apparently killed three other people, he repeatedly makes the irrelevant point that it only killed one

Absolutely Brilliant! Mr. Spock

Posted on March 02, 2010
Absolutely Brilliant! Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk wrestle with Liberal Catholicism.

The Curious Case of Junia We all

Posted on March 02, 2010
The Curious Case of Junia We all remember Junia - who was the leader or deacon of a house church and therefore is presently in fashion among feminist theologians, Womynchurch activists and liberal professors of Bible Studies.  The version I've heard expounded is that Paul recognized Junia as "equal to the apostles" but during the dark ages of misogyny, Junia's name was changed to the male

"You say you want a Reformation" First

Posted on March 02, 2010
"You say you want a Reformation" First Things Evangel blog posts a lengthy diatribe on the recent resignation of the German Lutheran head bishop: Things have changed among Lutherans: So eager not to anger public opinion ? no doubt, with the good intention of making church more attractive and appealing to unbelievers! ? one is drawn into operating according to the rules of engagement established

Al Gore lied. People died. Baby

Posted on March 02, 2010
Al Gore lied. People died. Baby girl survives after being shot in the chest in parents' 'global warming suicide pact' A seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother...

Great Orators of the IngSoc Party Nancy

Posted on March 02, 2010
Great Orators of the IngSoc Party Nancy Pelosi has mastered George Orwell's Newspeak: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward. "They've had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard," she said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning...

One year into the Affirmative Action

Posted on March 01, 2010
One year into the Affirmative Action Presidency.... ...and things are not looking so good, according to Victor Davis Hanson: 2) Style: Great orators get better in their rhetoric, not worse. It turns out that the people risked a blank slate in Obama in part because in his teleprompted hope and change orations, he sounded fresh and mellifluous...

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