2017-03-16T19:38:47+00:00

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In the National Review today, Mark Hemingway looks at what he calls Newsweek’s “absolutely Herculean feat of water-carrying” for Barack Obama: …before tackling the factual problems, the article’s biggest problem needs to be addressed — Newsweek aids and abets the Obama campaign’s decision to slander Joe Lieberman: In a brief but animated Senate floor confrontation last week, according to a campaign aide who asked for anonymity when talking about private discussions, Obama told Lieberman he was surprised by Lieberman’s personal... Read more

2017-03-16T19:38:48+00:00

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A friend of mine read yesterday’s piece on freedom of speech, powergrids, etc and after reading about the Pelosi-Claybrook bill, Hillary’s remarks and the adventures up in Canada which do not seem so far removed from what we see moving toward the American mainstream, she considered that a government increasingly leaning toward the suppressing free speech and the creation of laws meant to diminish rather than enhance the liberties of it’s citizens was perhaps not what Thomas Jefferson had in... Read more

2017-03-16T22:46:04+00:00

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“There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes.” — G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News 10-15-21 Read more

2017-03-16T22:46:08+00:00

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2017-03-16T22:46:11+00:00

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Free Speech – “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man Steve Boriss has a thoughtful piece up at Pajamas Media, on how the internet will be at the front of the fight to preserve free speech: In a recent editorial, the NY Times welcomed federal regulation of the Internet under the benign-sounding cause “net neutrality,” warning us that Internet service providers might suppress... Read more

2017-03-16T22:46:14+00:00

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What a long, strange trip it’s been, and here, some years later, we finally get someone in the press to tell it straight: Bush did not lie. There’s no question that the administration, and particularly Vice President Cheney, spoke with too much certainty at times and failed to anticipate or prepare the American people for the enormous undertaking in Iraq. But dive into Rockefeller’s [Intelligence Committee] report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies... Read more

2017-03-16T22:46:17+00:00

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You scored 10 Materialism and 0 Phenomenology! A common mistake is assuming that “Theism” means religion. Theism isn’t religion, it is in fact metaphysics, originating with Emperor Constantine, who transformed Christianity from a minority religion to the ideological standard of Rome. What Theism simply means is that you are convinced that there is a Final Ordering Principle to the universe, that it has agency (will), that it ordains all power structures as will as instilling reality with purpose and design,... Read more

2017-03-16T22:46:19+00:00

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I missed this when it ran, but thank goodness for the internet. Here are 7 minutes and 13 seconds that you want to see go on forever. Mild-mannered, brilliant George Will manages in one segment to torpedo the whole sterotype of the wild-Christianist conservative trying to control everyone else” and manages to stump, amuse and impress the pretty-bright Colbert in the process. Doubtless some will nitpick on the imperfections of Will’s 7 minutes (“why didn’t he discuss this, why did... Read more

2015-03-13T20:30:23+00:00

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The anger of Ms. Christian and her Democrat sisters has perhaps less to do with the fact that Barack Obama is an “inadequate black male” than that he is the trophy wife for whom Mrs. Clinton — and by extension, her graying, menopausal supporters — has been thrown over. A trophy wife, of course, is the younger, less shopworn, unlined, doe-eyed, and sometimes opportunistic woman some middle-aged men marry upon achieving the measure of worldly success that puts them in... Read more

2015-05-23T16:54:47+00:00

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“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.” — G.K. Chesterton The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21 and, just because I like this quote… “Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy” – P.J. O’Rourke Read more

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