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Looks like we will need a "reset

Posted on February 07, 2011
Looks like we will need a "reset button" for our relationship with England. Obama administration trades England's nuclear secrets for deal with Russia.

So much for socio-biology and evolutionary

Posted on February 07, 2011
So much for socio-biology and evolutionary psychology. Match.com study shows: Chalk it up to the difference between romantic comedies and real life: A new survey of American singles finds that men want babies and commitment, while women are more likely to want independence in their relationships...

Great Moments at the intersection

Posted on February 07, 2011
Great Moments at the intersection of American Foreign Policy and the Religion of Peace. One-legged Afghan Red Cross worker set to be hanged after converting to Christianity An Afghan physiotherapist will be executed within three days for converting to Christianity...

If only gay rights activists could

Posted on February 07, 2011
If only gay rights activists could marry... ...well, underage boys, apparently. Scottish gay rights activists sentenced for operating pedophilia ring.

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Leaving the Cult. I don't know

Posted on February 07, 2011
Leaving the Cult. I don't know which is funnier in this story about Paul Haggis' departure from Scientology - that it took him 37 years to figure out that he was a member of a cult or that what motivated him to leave Scientology wasn't when his wife was told to "disconnect" from her family, but when it came out in favor of Proposition 8...

Planned Parenthood?s ?Willingness

Posted on February 07, 2011
Planned Parenthood?s ?Willingness to Support Sex-Trafficking of Minors?... ...according to Virginia's Attorney General.

The Founding Fathers were not Deist. Listening

Posted on February 06, 2011
The Founding Fathers were not Deist. Listening to a debate between Rabbi David Wolpe and Christopher "A British Accent Makes Me Sound Intelligent" Hitchens, Hitchens brayed out his usual claim that the Founding Fathers were Deist.  As with most things that Hitchens says, the truth is to be found somewhere else: Franklin's early commitment to deism, however, did not last very long...

The great thing about having a

Posted on February 06, 2011
The great thing about having a Democrat administration is that there is never any bad news. Jerry Wilson observes: I?ve noticed my commute on BART has become substantially more crowded the past few weeks. Somehow I doubt it?s due to a sudden surge in employment...

We're not Number One!!! We're

Posted on February 05, 2011
We're not Number One!!! We're number 17 on the list of "America's Most Miserable Cities." Stockton is Number One. Bakersfield is Number Twenty, which is nuts.  Given a choice between Stockton and Bakersfield, Stockton is the obvious choice to live...

Genital Mutilation and Democracy.... ...and

Posted on February 05, 2011
Genital Mutilation and Democracy.... ...and Asians and wheat prices. Spengler has written a polymathic essay on Egypt. First, there is the issue of female genital mutilation which is practiced in Egypt to a horrific extent: Nine out of ten Egyptian women suffer genital mutilation...

Why the Neanderthal went extinct. Bottom

Posted on February 05, 2011
Why the Neanderthal went extinct. Bottom line - longer tendons and not enough trees. Our ancestors evolved as cursorial hunters on the open lands of Africa, where they would simply chase animals into exhaustion.  In the European forests, chasing animals into exhaustion wasn't going to happen, so Neanderthals became ambush predators, learning to fight animals at close quarters...

Planned Parenthood acting badly. More

Posted on February 05, 2011
Planned Parenthood acting badly. More sting operations show three Planned Parenthood clinics in Virginia willing to cooperate with underage prostitution. It would seem that the indoctrination in the idea that there is a right to a "access to abortion" results in an ethical system where that "right" trumps every other value...

Last eyewitness to Lincoln assassination

Posted on February 05, 2011
Last eyewitness to Lincoln assassination appeared on the television game show "I've Got a Secret"... ....in 1956. Here is the article. Samuel J. Seymour was 5 years old when he saw John Wilkes Booth jump to the stage of the Ford Theater.  He was 96 when he appeared on "I've Got a Secret...

The Acts of the Apostles.

Posted on February 04, 2011
The Acts of the Apostles.

Everybody Does it, part two. James

Posted on February 04, 2011
Everybody Does it, part two. James Taranto also points this out: You've got to love this totally uninformative description of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood in a New York Times news story: As the Roman Catholic Church includes both those who practice leftist liberation theology and conservative anti-abortion advocates, so the Brotherhood includes both practical reformers and firebrand

"Everybody does it," whined your

Posted on February 04, 2011
"Everybody does it," whined your teenager.... ....no, wait, actually it's Common Cause that is using the "everybody does it" defense. James Taranto writes concerning a Common Cause press release on the obnoxious behavior of some supporters: The press release is framed as a condemnation of the Common Cause supporters--or, in the group's unwieldy description of them, "a few of those attending

Obama and Democrats failed to pass

Posted on February 04, 2011
Obama and Democrats failed to pass "cram-down" legislation. Apart from signing the McCain-Feingold monstrosity, one of George W. Bush's most disastrous bits of legislation was the "Bankruptcy Reform Act" of 2002.  This legislation had the inexplicable and benighted social policy of protecting credit card debt by making it harder to protect home ownership under the guise of "personal

Or he could just stop taking the

Posted on February 03, 2011
Or he could just stop taking the word "God" out when he quotes historical documents. Obama to give "major speech" on his personal belief. Yup, I'll be waiting for that; it should be informative in a kind of shallow and superficial way. Apparently, Obama realizes that he has a bit of a public relations problem since a lot of Americans - including a majority of blacks and Democrats - believe

Projection - when you're being

Posted on February 03, 2011
Projection - when you're being accused of doing something you're not doing, you can bet the accuser is doing it. A bunch of liberal white people at a Common Cause rally express a lot of racism and hate at the drop of a hat.

Tolerance - the moment between

Posted on February 02, 2011
Tolerance - the moment between breathing out one orthodoxy and breathing in a new one. Anne Althouse answers the question, "when did the left turn against free speech?" Remember when lefties were all about free speech? When did that change? Why did that change? Perhaps the answer is: Free speech was only ever a means to an end...

Don't mess with Gurkhas. Vox Day

Posted on February 02, 2011
Don't mess with Gurkhas. Vox Day links to this story: Bishnu Shrestha, a brave Gurkha soldier in Indian Army, defeated 40 train robbers while returning home after a voluntary retirement.... While in the train, Maurya Express from Ranchi to Gorakhpur on September 2, 2010, 35 year-old Bishnu saved a girl about to be raped by train robbers, in front of her helpless parents...

Early humans attempted to domesticate

Posted on February 02, 2011
Early humans attempted to domesticate the fox.... ...according to this Io9 article. The efforts obviously failed, but at least they weren't as disastrous as early human efforts to domesticate the piranha and the King Cobra.

Like finding the "lost world." This

Posted on February 02, 2011
Like finding the "lost world." This video discusses a University of Cambridge linguist who is studying the "Romeyka" language.  Romeyka is spoken by about 5,000 villagers in the Black Sea regions of Turkey and is apparently a form of Greek that preserves the linguistic structure of classical Greece...

Planned Parenthood - providing

Posted on February 01, 2011
Planned Parenthood - providing essential support services for the criminal exploitation of girls. NRO provides this video of a Planned Parenthood office manager advising a pimp on how to provide abortions and STD testing for his stable of underage prostitutes...

Understanding the Middle-East... ...understanding

Posted on January 31, 2011
Understanding the Middle-East... ...understanding tribalism. This Stanley Kurtz article on tribalism is worth reading. Modern Americans aren't good on tribalism. except in parts of America which instinctively makes one hear the sounds of the banjos playing in "Deliverance...

Obama incompetence works in America's

Posted on January 31, 2011
Obama incompetence works in America's favor for a change. The entirety of Obamacare was struck down because the Obama administration didn't bother to include a severability provision in its legislation.

Craig v. Hitchens. William Lane

Posted on January 31, 2011
Craig v. Hitchens. William Lane Craig permits Christopher Hitchens to hoist himself on his own petard.

Obamacare Held Unconstitutional. The

Posted on January 31, 2011
Obamacare Held Unconstitutional. The Ruling. More later.

Round 1 - Obamacare ruled unconstitutional. Here's

Posted on January 31, 2011
Round 1 - Obamacare ruled unconstitutional. Here's the story. Such as it is at this point.

Aquinas goes Pop. [Via Mark

Posted on January 30, 2011
Aquinas goes Pop. [Via Mark Shea.]

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