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December 2006

Review: Casino Royale

Tonight, my girlfriend and I went to see "Casino Royale." Though it diverges from the traditional movie depiction of Bond...

Islam is Untouchable

In my previous post, I noted Dennis Prager, a Jew, was called a "bigot" for lamenting that a Muslim Congressman...

Dennis Prager, Ad Hominem Attacks

There's been an ongoing discussion on several posts regarding my contention there is no conservative equivalent of the tendancy among...

AACS Cracked, Apparently

DVDs are encrypted with something known as CSS - the Content Scrambling System. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your point...

Patriotism, Left and Right

It's been common, in recent years, to hear defensive-sounding complaints from "the left", protesting loudly that, yes, they love their...

Who Hates Menorahs?

What a perfect story for Christmas Eve... What's wrong with me? As you may know, I recently heard that the...

"Traitor" versus "Homophobic" (Etc.)

In one of our strange diversions (from talking about a serial murderer,) Ryan and I ended up debating (in my...

Evolutionary Semantic Dissonance

One of the things I find most interesting about many materialistic evolutionists is the way they cannot seem to refrain...

Rants about Grocery Shopping

It's Friday, so why not write about something completly light and trivial? Stagg chili, for example. Long ago, it came...

Episcopal Church Split in VA: Examining the Rhetoric

Here's the tone from the "right", as quoted in a Washington Post article: "I grew up in the Episcopal Church....

Auditing Jimmy Carter: What Happened at Taba?

It's bad to read only opinions you agree with and have already verified. It's also bad to read and blindly...

Dear Rabbi Bogomilsky

A friend of mine and I were recently lamenting about what happened with the Christmas tree flap at SEA-TAC airport....

"Jobs Americans Won't Do"

Via Tammy Bruce: GREELEY [CO] - The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away...

The New Class of Democrats

Radar Online profiles new Democratic members of the 110th Congress. Among them are... Jason Altmire who wants to clamp down...

A Visit to Tatooine

Aleksandra Moorast: The driver stopped the car at the top of the hill and stepped out for a cigarette, turning...

Using Churches as Political Shills

A "shill" is a person who stands in the crowd, appearing to have no relation to the one selling something...

Putin Versus Shell Oil: I'm Rootin' for Putin!

It seems Putin is trying to take over Shell Oil's $20 billion investment in getting oil out of Russia's Sakhalin...

Dishonest Rhetoric: Projecting Radicalism, Usurping Traditionalism

The Dixie Chicks, on trends in country music, my emphasis: [Martie] Maquire says she is not trying to say the...

Pay Me Not To Take Your Land

Ilya Somin, via Volokh Conspiracy: "In 2003, private developer [Gregg Wasser] approached Bart Didden and Domenick Bologna with a modest...

The Reappearance of James Baker

Back when Ronald Reagan was president, one tendency I found disconcerting was a trend towards what was called "Realpolitik". This...

Bertrand Russell on the First Cause

Famous mathematician and atheist Bertrand Russell: There is no reason why the world... should not have always existed. There is...

Review: The Nativity Story

This weekend, the girlfriend and I had to choose between the most recent Bond flick (my disposition) and The Nativity...

Cops and Robbers in Norway

Non Imprimatur: When Arne Hjemaas from Fauske in Norway discovered who was behind a series of burglaries in August and...

Walid Shoebat: Excusing Jews

A while ago, my girlfriend heard Walid Shoebat speak in St. Louis. I've known about Walid since slightly after Sept....

Can You Say "Proxy War"?

ABC News (via PowerLine): U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new...

Isolationism

There are really only two possible general approaches concerning American power in the world: isolationism and involvement. And despite my...

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