Friday, July 8, 2011

The great Sheldon Richman

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About that Debt Limit Maxing out the credit card panics the politicians. What’s the point of a debt ceiling if raising it is a mere formalit...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

First Muscle Lady speaks

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“But I think that the last four years have shown us the truth of what Barack has always said: That if any child in this country is left behi...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

this is your brain on leeches

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Maggot therapy is an example of a medical approach called biotherapy--the use of living animals to aid in medical diagnosis or treatment. Le...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

disappearing species

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A hat tip to our peripatetic animal rights reporter, Thelonius Royal, for calling our attention to this latest outrage: our animal friends t...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

lest we forget

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Stephen Glass perpetrated one of the great journalistic frauds in modern American history. In 1998 Glass, a 25-year-old rising star at the N...
Monday, June 20, 2011

the besetting sin

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Moral theology classifies the sins or faults of man in various ways. It is a discipline with its own taxonomy. One kind of fault that pastor...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

cool news story

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Reporting from Washington— After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered countr...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

a prayer

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Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the ea...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Not in the Loop?

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In Tuscaloosa, Obama said he's never seen such devastation. Doesn't the Pentagon show him the bombing reports?
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden (10/15/01)

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"After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only t...
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...