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Don’t Know Much About History

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:34:19 GMT

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Relying on recent events to teach us historical truths is a perilous business. History needs room — lots of room — for perspective. Divining lessons from the experiences of the last few generations is like describing a Monet landscape with one’s nose touching the canvas. Those colors and dabs are pretty, but they just won’t make sense until you back up and experience them from a distance.

Tags: history, education, culture

"God Damn America"

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:46:07 GMT

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Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: politics, election, 2008

More Friends of Obama

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:41:06 GMT

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Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Obama’s high-energy but low-content message of “change” and “hope.” He said that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and sitting Micigan governor Jennifer Granholm (D.) “both ran this sort of campaign — we were told to believe, to vote for change. They both made similar pitches — inexperienced politicians who frame themselves with great stump speeches.”

Kilpatrick agreed last week to step down as mayor of Detroit and accept a 120-day jail sentence on two felony

Obama offered now-embarrassing full-throated praise for Kilpatrick at the Detroit Economic Club, providing a convenient audio-visual link between the two men. “He is a leader not just here in Detroit, not just in Michigan, but all across the country,” an exuberant Obama said of Kilpatrick. “We know that he is going to be doing astounding things for many years to come. I am grateful to call him a friend and colleague, and I am looking forward to a lengthy collaboration.”

Tags: politics, election, 2008

Looking Forward to a Lengthy Collaboration

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:47:43 GMT

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Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: politics, election, 2008

The Effect of Media Bias

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:11:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Pollster Scott Rasmussen finds that 68 percent believe "most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win" and that 51 percent -- more than support McCain -- believe the press is "trying to hurt" Sarah Palin. The press and the Democratic ticket are paying the price for decades of biased mainstream media coverage.

Tags: politics, election, 2008

Atheist Complaint Box

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:12:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.somethingawful.com

Tags: humor, spoof, parody

Example for Bishops and All Believers

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:39:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.adoremus.org

“Seventeen centuries ago a young deacon and scholar named Athanasius of Alexandria was inspired by the Holy Spirit. In a time of heavy turmoil in the world and in the Church, Athanasius fought for the true Catholic faith at the great ecumenical Council of Nicaea and throughout his entire career.

“Emperors hated him. His enemies falsely accused him of cruelty, sorcery and even murder. He was exiled five times. And in the face of it all, he became the single most articulate voice defending the true and undiluted Catholic faith, which is why even today we remember him as Athanasius contra mundum: ‘Athanasius against the world’. He never gave up. He always had courage. He had the truth, and the truth won. And in the end, he became one of the best-loved bishops and greatest Doctors of the Church — and the Catholic faith we take for granted today, we owe in part to him.

“That’s the vocation of a bishop.

But that’s also the vocation of every Catholic believer fully alive in Jesus Christ”.

Tags: catholicism, evangelism, orthodoxy

25 Reasons You Might Be a Liberal

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:37:11 GMT

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Clip Source: townhall.com

* You think Dan Quayle is the dumbest Vice-President we ever had because he believed a flash card that misspelled "potato," but think Obama is a genius despite the fact he believes we have more than 57 states.

* You'd be more upset about your favorite candidate being endorsed by the NRA than the Communist Party.

* You think the real hero of the Cold War was Mikhail Gorbachev.

* You couldn't care less about what Americans in states like Kansas or Virginia think of you, but you would be greatly upset if a Frenchman gave you a dirty look because you're an American.

* You think censorship is absolutely wrong; except when it's applied to conservatives on college campuses or on talk radio via the fairness doctrine.

* You think the war in Iraq is unwinnable, but victory in the war on poverty is going to happen any day now if we can just get the Democrats back in charge.

Tags: humor, politics

2020

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:48:20 GMT

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Clip Source: thepeoplescube.com

Here are some headlines we can expect to see in the year 2020 if our society continues its glorious march to the People's Revolution:

Rev. Jeremiah Wright receives Nobel Peace Prize for trendsetting work in race relations

San Francisco city ordinance: Public display of heterosexual affection (by US citizens) punishable by $1000 fine

Michael Moore sweeps Oscars with his film Bin Laden Mon Amour

Supreme Court approves quotas for mentally-retarded applicants to PhD programs in the humanities

Army announces new “fair trade” rules of engagement: Enemy must be given equal weapons before fight begins

Hamas nukes Copenhagen; UN condemns Israel

First group of infants successfully undergo lung-reduction surgery to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

First gay marriage ceremony between gorillas performed in Amsterdam

Development of squirrel-driven automobile engine halted by PETA protests

Last oil well in Texas goes dry; “A great moment for America” says Secretary of Energy

Tags: humor, spoof, parody, satire

Why I Am Not A Liberal

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:40:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.humanevents.com

The following is a list of beliefs that I hold. Nearly every one of them was a liberal position until the late 1960s. Not one of them is now.

Such a list is vitally important in order to clarify exactly what positions divide left from right, blue from red, liberal from conservative.

I believe that government funding of those who can help themselves (e.g., the able-bodied who collect welfare) or who can be helped by non-governmental institutions (such as private charities, family, and friends) hurts them and hurts society.

I believe that the American military has done more to preserve and foster goodness and liberty on Earth than all the artists and professors in America put together.

I believe that the trial lawyers associations and teachers unions, the greatest donors to the Democratic Party, have done great harm to American life -- far more than, let us say, oil companies and pharmaceutical companies, the targets of liberal opprobrium.

Tags: liberalism, politics

Navy Invented Sex

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:12:28 GMT

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Clip Source: strategypage.com

A Marine and a sailor were sitting in a bar one day arguing over which was the superior service.

After a swig of beer the Marine says, 'Well, we had Iwo Jima.'

Arching his eyebrows, the sailor replies, 'We had the Battle of Midway.

'Not entirely true', responded the Marine. 'Some of those pilots were Marines, in fact, Henderson Field on Guadalcanal was named after a Marine pilot killed at the Battle of Midway.'

The sailor responds, 'Point taken.'

The Marine then says, 'We Marines were born at Tunn Tavern!'

The sailor, nodding agreement, says, 'But we had John Paul Jones.'

The argument continued until the sailor comes up with what he thinks will end the discussion. With a flourish of finality he says...... 'The Navy invented sex!'

The Marine replies, 'That is true, but it was the Marines who introduced it to women.'

Tags: humor, jokes

The odd choices in Barack Obama's career

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:02:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

It's time to throw my hat in the ring as regards predicting the election results. So here it is: Barack Obama will be defeated. Seriously and convincingly defeated

He will lose for one reason above all, one that has been overlooked in any analysis that I've yet seen. Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake.

But what has been overlooked is the string of faux pas marking each step of Obama's journey, a series of strange, inexplicable actions

What are these incidents?

To Chicago. One of the windiest, coldest, most brutal cities in the country. One that is also infinitely corrupt in a sense that Hawaii is not. One that remains one of the most racist large cities in the U.S.

And what does he do when he reaches the city? Why, he joins a cult.

Obama apparently had to swear an oath of belief in "black liberation theology" when he joined the church.

But then... he writes nothing for the journal.

he voted "present" nearly as much as he voted "yes" or "no".

Tags: election, 2008, politics, looney left

The Hammer Doesn't Fall Far From The Sickle

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:16:38 GMT

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Clip Source: catholic-caveman.blogspot.com

In a surprising admission that could become a major scandal in the presidential race, Barack Obama’s 40-page so-called “rebuttal” to Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, acknowledges for the first time that the senator once had a personal relationship with identified Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member Frank Marshall Davis, a key high-level operative in a Soviet-sponsored network in Hawaii.

But the 40-page report, advertised and sold to the media as a refutation of Corsi’s “lies,” doesn’t identify Davis as a hard-core communist and it dishonestly edits an article about Davis to eliminate references to his admitted involvement in CPUSA activities and make the black revolutionary writer and “poet” look like a civil rights activist.

In fact, Davis was a secret CPUSA member who continued his involvement in the CPUSA or its front activities into the 1970s, when he became Barack Obama’s mentor in Hawaii.

Tags: election, 2008, politics, fellow travelers

Stop the 'War' on Terror: Calling It a 'War' Is a Boon to Terrorist Recruiters

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:38:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rand.org

Since 1968, more than three-quarters of terrorist groups have ended because of a political settlement or joint policing and intelligence efforts. But a political solution is not in the cards with Al Qaeda. Its goal – to take down multiple state regimes to create a pan-Islamic caliphate – is too radical to lead to any sort of negotiated settlement with Middle Eastern governments.

A good start toward peace, though, would be for Washington to stop thinking of this as a "war" with a battlefield solution.

The term "war" also has a symbolic cost. It feeds into the jihad or "holy war" concept that attracts the attention of potential terrorists by elevating them to "holy warrior" status. Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors.

What we are engaged in, more aptly, is "counterterrorism."

Tags: terrorism, islamism, islamofascism, jihadism

Obama Cover-up Revealed

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:36:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lifesitenews.com

documents just obtained by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) prove that Senator Obama has for the past four years blatantly misrepresented his actions on the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection bill.

In 2002, the bill was enacted, after a "neutrality clause" was added to explicitly state that the bill expressed no judgment, in either direction, about the legal status of a human prior to live birth. The bill passed without a dissenting vote in either house of Congress. (To view the final federal BAIPA as enacted, http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/BAIPAFederal.pdf)

Meanwhile, Barack Obama, as a member of the Illinois State Senate, actively opposed a state version of the BAIPA during three successive regular legislative sessions. His opposition to the state legislation continued into 2003 - even after NARAL had withdrawn its initial opposition to the federal bill, and after the final federal bill had been enacted in August 2002.

Tags: politcs, election, obama