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May 2009

Partisan Politics from the Pulpit

Apropos Mike Potemra: I attended Pentecost Sunday services at New York's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the...

Cultural Icons: Pondering "Krull" and "Land of the Lost"

For reasons which are too complicated (and boring) to elaborate, I was just reading this strangely positive review of the...

Anti-Humanism

webecoist.com: Each of these species move about their surroundings with a territorial purpose, and defend what they deem as rightfully...

"Front Door" versus "Back Door" Religions: Yoga, Meditation & Buddhism

"I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in...

Big Brother UK

The caption says the cameras read about 10 million license plate numbers a day already: A national network of cameras...

Is Milk's Taste Changing?

Late last year (2008), my gal started and I both started to notice that various milk brands here in Denver...

Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote

Although this Yahoo! article is ostensibly about Wikipedia's reliability -- or lack thereof -- the more important implication is really...

Two Benefits of a Democratic President

During the campaign, I remarked to a Democrat friend that one nice thing about having a Democrat in office is...

Time to Play: The Unpatriotic / Treason Game!

In our previous round, I noted that the left was fond of (a) saying they'd been called "unpatriotic" (by what...

Tvind: San Juan De Las Pulgas

I love to travel. Google earth allows poor-man's flight time: pick some portion of the Earth's surface and explore it...

Acronyms like "AIDS" and "ACORN"

An acronym is a word composed of abbreviations of other words. In the "old days", people used to include all...

No Praise For John Conyers

After the 2004 Election, Air America encouraged me to look into the Conyers Report, which alleged massive election fraud in...

"Feckless"

Best of the Web Today: ... the Obama administration's efforts to make nice with Tehran's lunatic regime do seem to...

The Motivations of Those Demanding Higher Taxes

We're used hearing progressives and liberals claim they are motivated by generosity and caring, while their opponents are cold-hearted and...

Corporations Are Right Wing?

Politico: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking heat from Johnson & Johnson, Nike and other corporate members over its...

Denied School Choice

Via the corner comes this rather sad video from Reason.TV, about Obama's move to kill the Washington DC voucher program...

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