Sunday, January 31, 2010

are we to be spared nothing?

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championsh...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

how do you measure?

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For how do we appraise the historic significance of a period? By what standards do we measure culture? It is customary in the modern world t...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

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"With so little effort on my own part, I can empower an unlimited amount of people for all time. I can't imagine a better use of my...

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Interstate commerce in action! "Democrats say that failing to buy insurance is a form of economic activity, because it shifts costs to ...

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"You need to evaluate yourselves carefully. Take a careful inventory of your habits, your speech, your appearance, your weight, and you...
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When we take a responsible step to do what is right or sacrifice what is wrong, there flows to us, often immediately, a quiet confirmation f...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

morning in america

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New senator/rock star Scott Brown The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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The first and most dominant theme [of Les Miserables]is that of redemption. The word “redeem” means “to buy back,” and much of the plot turn...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

which is scarier?

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Editor's intro: "Myleene Klass, the broadcaster and model, brandished a knife at youths who broke into her garden — but has been wa...
Friday, January 15, 2010

strong candidate for best concluding paragraph we know

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"Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cy...

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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry.” --Emily Dickinson
Saturday, January 9, 2010

who wants to be a trillionaire?

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As recently as 1980, the Zimbabwe dollar was worth more than the U.S. dollar, but by January 2009, Zimbabwe had degraded its money to the po...

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Unlike the branches of a tree, the network of veins in a typical leaf is full of closed loops. Even after a visit by a hungry insect, no par...

we hold this right to be inalienable

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"After all," said Clare, "they had a right to happiness." We were discussing something that once happened in our own nei...
Friday, January 8, 2010

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

teach the children well

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Because I write about politics, people are forever asking me the best way to teach children how our system of government works. I tell them ...

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"I wouldn't trust a man who would sell out his friends." "Dumkopf -- who else can you sell out? You can't double-cros...

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It is often forgotten how "legal" the Nazi regime in Germany really was. It did not take power in a violent revolution, but entere...

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy

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(click to enlarge!) In praise of this depiction, Chesterton writes: “When [Blake] gets the thing right he gets it suddenly and perfectly ri...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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There may have been a time in the world's history when such moments [of decision] fully revealed their gravity, with witches prophesying...
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from the journal of William Clayton on building a temple in Nauvoo

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original floor plan, Nauvoo temple The labors of the day having been brought to a close at so early an hour viz; half past 8, it was thought...
Monday, January 4, 2010

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Because nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner.
Saturday, January 2, 2010

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The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentratio...

Why I Believe (Richard Bushman)

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For reasons I cannot completely explain to those who have not embraced LDS doctrine, I have not abandoned my beliefs after forty years of sc...
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remember this poem?

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Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

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When on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness...

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President Marion G. Romney, who served as a counselor to President Spencer W. Kimball, is a wonderful example of someone who asks faithful q...

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today's moments in history: the sepoy mutiny

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I'll never forgive myself for the Sepoy Mutiny, whose cause ranks as the most insensitive act of cultural imperialism ever committed by ...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

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"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it." --H.L. Mencken
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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It seems as if every week somebody comes up with a study that shows the number of people who will die from exposure to second-hand smoke, or...

lisboa

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grade the speech

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[H]ere we come to what was for me the most revolting part of [Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance]speech. And perhaps the most signific...

watch that face

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Tony Blair, visiting lecturer at Yale Divinity School As one of his illustrious countrymen once put it: "Murder, though it have no tong...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Letter to a Funeral Parlor

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Dear Sir, I am writing to you to object to the word cremains, which was used by your representative when he met with my mother and me two da...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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An episode from the life of William James captures the problem well. He had been given charge of a turtle's heart for a popular lecture ...

Church News: LDS Youth Gets Brief Posthumous Brush with Celebrity

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Church News caption: President Barack Obama, right, salutes as an Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Church...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

late (heart) breaking news

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Bryant Gumbel to Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner in an interview during the 2000 presidential race: “In a macropolitical sense, do you think t...

Lot's Wife

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And the just man trailed God's shining agent, over a black mountain, in his giant track, while a restless voice kept harrying his woman:...

mistakes were made

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Believe it or not, this phrase has its own entry in Wikipedia. Political consultant William Schneider suggested that this usage be referred...

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The cause of much contemporary misery in Western countries - criminality, domestic violence, drug addiction, aggressive youths, hooliganism,...

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No doubt a Soviet military conquest would have brought about a swifter and much more complete Sovietisation than did the crumbling of the So...
Friday, November 13, 2009

to those non-hat fetishists

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not already famililar with "moses," the world's premier paper hat designer, said Hawaiian hatmaster created some 250 original ...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

The hand of Tyr

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The only principles that seem to hold any sway anymore qua principles — whether they are held in a quest for power or in an intellectual con...

We hold this duncery to be self-evident:

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On November 5, addressing the crowd of anti-PelosiCare protesters, John Boehner, Republican minority leader in the House, whipped out an ob...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

In Memoriam

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wild rice What gets you is the knowledge, that sometimes can fall on you in a clap, that the dead are gone absolutely from this world. A...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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What is my point of view? 1. God is one of a number of superior intelligences who have learned-how we do not know exactly-to obtain glory a...