Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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When “Mormonism” finds favor with the wicked in this land, it will have gone into the shade; but until the power of the Priesthood is gone, ...

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Students in our colleges and universities live constantly in a tension between two authority systems: one more or less vaguely associated wi...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

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In recent years I have felt, and I think I am not alone, that we are losing the ability to correct the course of the church. You cannot appr...
Friday, April 8, 2011

peanute butter--better than the segue

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Plumpy'nut is a peanut-based food for use in famine relief which was formulated in 1997 by André Briend, a French paediatric nutritionis...

the little things you do

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A really good toss-out screener never gets caught. We can only judge among those toss-out screeners who get caught. There is n...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

They Know More Than We Do

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(click to expand) On NBC's Meet The Press, US Secretary of Defense explains the sophistication of our enemy in Afghanistan: Tim Russert:...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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The modern state – the state birthed in the Protestant Enlightenment – possesses two very important monopolies. The first is on the moral an...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

good advice from blogger

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In response to a pessimistic political affairs blog by Chris Floyd, a disheartened reader wrote to ask: "I try to be noisy about this s...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

as a man thinketh

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I mean that I really did see myself, and my real self, committing the murders...I mean that I thought and thought about how a man might come...
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scripture

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James Faulconer spends a good deal of time discussing approaches to scriptural texts. Latter-day Saints, he believes, may be tempted to read...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

on bustin up a chifferobe

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BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY. Collin Wilcox died last October, just as we were about to settle in for our annual viewing of To Kill a Mockingbir...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Most readers, when trying to plow their way through [William F.] Buckley's "On the one hand... on the other hand" rhetoric, mu...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

no, no, they can't take that away from me

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There is such a thing as lovesickness for good horses and mules, and for this there is no cure. People who operate machines know nothing lik...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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In those days was [righteous king] Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus sai...

the power of no

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Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch resistance to Nazism from 1940 to 1945 was pronounced and fairly successful. In Norway, for example, teachers r...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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Samuel Dickson was 17 years old, almost a man, that April night in San Francisco 100 years ago. He and a friend had gotten standing-room tic...
Monday, October 4, 2010

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The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, The Upsho...

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Forgiveness is not a tiny, inward act which a discrete effort of will brings forth in response to specific types of occasions. Rather, it is...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

caption this

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Send your submissions to: "Caption This, No. 14" c/o I. Papas General Delivery Molalla, OR
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nothing to envy

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If you look at satellite photographs of the far east by night,you’ll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness i...
Monday, September 13, 2010

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On September 14, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a national emergency with respect to the terrorist attacks of three days earlier. T...

"don't tread on us" (or we putcha outta biznuss)

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Health & Human Services Sect'y K. Sebilius The mobster walks into an office. "Mighty nice insurance company you have here,...
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Some years ago I gave my expression to my own feeling – anti-patriotic feeling, it will doubtless be called – in a somewhat startling way. I...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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By the goodness of God we mean nowadays almost exclusively His lovingness; and in this we may be right. And by Love, in this context, most o...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Mission Accomplished, Part II

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"They're leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride in their hearts," declared Col. John Norris, the head of a US ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Candidate To Accuse Opponent Of Racism Just To See What Happens

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NEW YORK—With polls showing him trailing in New York's Republican primary race for U.S. Senate, candidate David Malpass told reporters F...
Friday, August 27, 2010

you can't make this stuff up

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From The Miami Herald: In a gratifying show of multicultural sensitivity, the US Navy has announced that the forced tube feedings of prisone...
Monday, August 16, 2010

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Pakistan is in the midst of one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history. More than 20 million people have been displaced by flood...
Monday, August 2, 2010

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Important movie documents the black hole of the 20th century. http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/28771192
Friday, July 30, 2010

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Lest it should be possible that any unchildlike soul might, in arrogance and ignorance, think to stand upon his rights against God, and d...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Friday, July 16, 2010

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

the wager

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In 1968, Paul Ehrlich was the author of a popular book, The Population Bomb, which argued that mankind was facing a demographic catastrophe ...
Monday, July 12, 2010

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Generations yet unborn will dwell with peculiar delight upon the scenes that we have passed through, the privations that we have endured; th...
Friday, July 2, 2010

tell me a story

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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon fo...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

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When you are on the board of a decent corporation, for example, if you have a direct financial interest in a matter under consideration you’...

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As I think Ayn Rand said, in any compromise between food and poison, poison wins.

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This morning I read an interesting story in Soundings magazine. It recounted the final voyage of the S.S. Morro Castle, purportedly one of t...

the Prince reassessed

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Laws are made by people who are, for the most part, the very scum of the earth; if something they impose on society is ethically beneficial,...

the doctor's tale

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The doctor and patient talked and then began an involved workup, “yet no diagnosis was made.” Later, the doctor discussed the case with a c...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

T. Jefferson: "A free press is the last bastion of liberty"

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Lead Headline for Drudge Report, 6/22/10: FLY LANDS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FACE. A fly lands on President Barack Obama's face as he d...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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1. The world as we experience it is somehow flawed. 2. These flaws are seen in light of the unflawed--some truth or notion of justice or goo...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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While the road to Hell is often paved with good intentions, the road to Heaven, too, is paved by many a bad intention that has not matured i...

Two People I Didn't Think I'd Miss So Much

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I was surprised by my reaction to the death of Gary Coleman. I had never been a fan of his, or even remotely interested in his career. I d...
Monday, May 17, 2010

say you want a revolution

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"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Ryokan reflects

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Shaggy hair past the ears, A worn-out robe resembling white clouds and dark smoke. Half drunk, half sober, I return home, Children all aroun...

hanging by a dread

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If more people bothered to actually read this document – including President Obama, who once taught constitutional law and who, in this year...