Saturday, May 30, 2009

a night that will live in infamy

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The Toilet Paper Shortage of 1973 The entire episode started with a Johnny Carson Tonight Show monologue. Writers for the show had heard tha...

news brief: Guantánamo Detainee Ruled Not Mentally Fit To Testify About Psychological Torture

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WASHINGTON—In its first major hearing on the use of abusive interrogation tactics at Guantánamo Bay, a blue-ribbon panel found detainee Omar...

April 27, 2009 editorial from Pravda (no kidding)

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American capitalism gone with a whimper It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happeni...

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The view that states can do wrong is the most powerful theory of politics in the history of the world. --Llewellyn Rockwell
Thursday, May 28, 2009

the americanization of emily

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Don't miss this classic scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tHS-ibOpSY
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

he's a rebel and he'll never be any good

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"Louisville, KY 5/22/09: Wendell Berry, also wearing a nice suit, said that the problem N.A.I.S. [National Animal Identification System...

The Mad Farmer's Love Song

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O when the world's at peace and every man is free then will I go down unto my love. O and I may go down several times before that. --Wen...

excellent advice

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“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” --Wendell Berry
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

this is your lightning on drugs

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oregonians! prove your faith

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discard that umbrella
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

from Arthur Henry King

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What the Lord said to Brother Joseph was, "They are all wrong." And if He condemned all the churches of his time, you may be quite...
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from J. Golden Kimball:

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What Is a "Good Man"? I take it that we will all be relieved when I get through. I certainly got the surprise of my life this morn...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this e...
Monday, May 18, 2009

if you don't talk like some people do

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Some are lost because they are different. They feel as though they don’t belong. Perhaps because they are different, they find themselves sl...
Monday, May 11, 2009

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“A good way of testing the caliber of a philosophy is to ask what it thinks of death.” --George Santayana

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“Nor need you doubt your conversion, your change of heart, because you cannot tell the day when it took place, as many profess to do. It did...

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Cue Frank Chodorov yet again. It was Chodorov who gave the classic libertarian response when asked, during the '50s Red Scare, what he...
Friday, May 8, 2009

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“Wind from the Sea” by Andrew Wyeth Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes a therapeutic exercise he has conducted many times. He brings toge...

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He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures. He is the Truth. Seek Him in...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

very funny, very sad

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Kevin Tibbles, an NBC News reporter in Chicago, recently bemoaned what he considered the remarkable decline of Notre Dame University since i...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

there otta be a law

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The late Harry Browne reminded us that, whenever we advocate a new law or regulation, we should always remember that it will almost certainl...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Jack and me

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. Mark Twain -- Life on the Mississippi
Friday, April 10, 2009

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[My father's] common salutation of his family or friends, on the Lord's day in the morning, was that of the primitive Christians: ...

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--Goya Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent mir...

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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeatin...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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The political class has failed us. At every level, they have failed us. Republican and Democrat, they have failed us. Liberal, conservative ...

bep, liz, kathryn, zippy, rico, mahana et al

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P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster tells us all we need to know about aunts: "It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and goo...
Saturday, April 4, 2009

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Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got t...

actual quote from dear leader

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"[I]n case there are still nagging doubts [about the future of GM and Chrysler], let me say it as plainly as I can – if you buy a car f...

in his own tongue

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"The greatest barrier to successful evangelism is not theological but cultural. We don't have to look very far to see what he means...
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If there had anywhere appeared in space Another place of refuge where to flee, Our hearts had taken refuge from that place, ...

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God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. .. St. Augustine

trendlines

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The premises of the New Deal control the ground and direction of American social, economic, and political life. These premises are now ident...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

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A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship.... The best introdu...

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All our actions and our thoughts must follow such different courses depending on whether there are eternal rewards to hope for or not, that ...

approaching Good Friday

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Andreas Manegna, 1480 "It is finished." It is hard for us to know the intonation with which these words of the dying Christ were...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

read this book

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Vincent van Gogh's Corn Fields and Poppies Time to get ready for summer by reading out of the best books, including, prominently, Dandel...

call for resumes

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Days after GM's CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out by the Obama administration, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner boasted: "We...

facebook

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The New York Tribune once observed of General Ulysses S. Grant's "immobile, heavy, and expressionless" visage that it was ...

more Robert Frost on current events

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I should hate to spend the only life I was going to have here in being annoyed with the time I happened to live in. --Robert Frost

more Brigham Young on current events

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Our traditions have been such that we are not apt to look upon war between two nations as murder; but suppose that one family should rise up...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Torso of an Archaic Apollo

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We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a l...

meet the mormons

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In 1861, at a meeting of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences, Dr. Samuel Cartwright and Professor C. G. Forshey gave an amazing account of t...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

the sound of a shaken leaf

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One of the “covenant curses” is curiously descriptive of the jittery culture of fear in which we now live: But if they will not hearken unto...

the new reality

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In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications...