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    Saturday, August 30, 2003    
         
      Keyes on State and Church
(08/30/03 04:18:08 PM; 1476 words)
Keyes on State and Church Alan Keyes has a brilliant column at WND, Aug. 26, on what the US federal constitution says about the federal government and religion. It makes....
   
    Friday, August 29, 2003    
         
      Arnold vs. Cruz
(08/29/03 08:53:13 PM; 213 words)
Arnold vs. Cruz I gather (from a sort of osmosis via TV channel surfing and suchlike) that Arnold Schwarzenegger once 'fessed up to a... wild congugal life... and that this....
   
      "Godself"
(08/29/03 08:30:22 PM; 9 words)
"Godself" The straw that broke the camel's back? Vide.
   
      Big DUH at Foggy Bottom
(08/29/03 12:12:47 PM; 262 words)
Big DUH at Foggy Bottom If you think about this too much, it's kinda scary. Jonathan Last concludes his column at OJ today, on the state-sponsored religious discrimination barring non-Muslims....
   
      Can One Be Famous Anonymously?
(08/29/03 11:35:33 AM; 44 words)
Can One Be Famous Anonymously? If so, I am. Remind me, next time I write to somebody at The Corner, to say Go ahead and use my name if you....
   
      Prager, Liberals, and Leftists
(08/29/03 08:05:44 AM; 542 words)
Prager, Liberals, and Leftists A column by Dennis Prager a while back got a lot of attention. He wrote a follow-up column a week later, which didn't get so much....
   
    Thursday, August 28, 2003    
         
      Dershowitz Makes Sense
(08/28/03 09:41:33 PM; 296 words)
Dershowitz Makes Sense Alan Dershowitz writes a column in The Los Angeles Times, yesterday: .... For more than a quarter of a century, the U.N. has actively encouraged terrorism by....
   
      "Thou Shalt Not Challenge Secularism"
(08/28/03 11:41:06 AM; 479 words)
"Thou Shalt Not Challenge Secularism" "A people whose claim to self-determination rested on certain inalienable rights granted by the Creator is not one that envisaged government expunged of religion." Hugo....
   
      SAM is The Man!
(08/28/03 09:21:51 AM; 593 words)
SAM is The Man! And, "The little Hitlers are everywhere." SecretAgentMan blogs a round-up of The Great Kneeling Debate. One is tempted to throw up one's hands at this kerfuffle:....
   
    Wednesday, August 27, 2003    
         
      Put On Your Flame-Retardant Suit
(08/27/03 08:25:27 PM; 24 words)
Put On Your Flame-Retardant Suit And head on over to Midwest Conservative Journal. Where Christopher Johnson flays and grills ECUSA's presiding bishop Frank Griswold.
   
      The Qur'an, Intelligibility, Fruit, and a Christian Saint
(08/27/03 12:14:23 PM; 507 words)
The Qur'an, Intelligibility, Fruit, and a Christian Saint On June 24, 2002, I added the following, from The Atlantic Online, Jan. 1999, to the Webseries Archive at The View from....
   
      "Funny Thing on the Way to the Courthouse"
(08/27/03 10:43:31 AM; 196 words)
"Funny Thing on the Way to the Courthouse" A most worthy blog at Dust in the Light, yesterday, sparked by the Roy Moore Monument Case: .... The funny thing, in....
   
      MBTI
(08/27/03 08:23:20 AM; 335 words)
MBTI See Fr. Jim Tucker's Myers-Briggs and St Blog's. My psychological type (MBTI) is INFP. With all due respect to everybody else at St. Blog's, I will not waste my....
   
    Tuesday, August 26, 2003    
         
      The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(08/26/03 08:03:54 PM; 20 words)
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion The notorious anti-Semitic forgery is a century old today. Vide. (Thanks, Charles.)
   
      "GIRM-inating"
(08/26/03 12:03:20 PM; 41 words)
"GIRM-inating" I was having an e-mail conversation about kneeling and/or standing after receiving Holy Communion. (Yes, you may kneel, and nobody has any authority to tell you that you must....
   
      More on the Big Granite Monument
(08/26/03 11:35:06 AM; 434 words)
More on the Big Granite Monument John Derbyshire has a great article at NRO, yesterday: .... Well, as I said, these things come up in the news once or twice....
   
      The Wonders of Internet Viruses
(08/26/03 10:35:12 AM; 27 words)
The Wonders of Internet Viruses I just received an e-mail informing me that I had successfully unsubscribed from an e-mail list of which I have never heard.
   
    Monday, August 25, 2003    
         
      NOW Stepping Into Oblivion?
(08/25/03 11:50:35 PM; 88 words)
NOW Stepping Into Oblivion? Vide. Unless, of course, this is a trial balloon, to be shot down if the negative feedback gets too great. That wouldn't surprise me in the....
   
      Alabama, The Ten Commandments, and the Federal Constitution
(08/25/03 04:11:41 PM; 594 words)
Alabama, The Ten Commandments, and the Federal Constitution Roy Moore, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, writes at OpinionJournal today: .... The First Amendment says that "Congress shall....
   
      Fred on Everything
(08/25/03 03:43:12 PM; 306 words)
Fred on Everything Fred Reed has a couple of good columns, this week and last. Last Monday, The Two Cultures: With All Due Respect: As the culture dies, the schools....
   
    Sunday, August 24, 2003    
         
      Three from Nicholson & Lee II
(08/24/03 10:21:48 AM; 445 words)
Three from Nicholson & Lee II Selections from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Pebbles in the Stream Here on this little bridge in this warm day We rest....
   

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