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Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 06/26/04 07:45:21 AM
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Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ That Liberal Media, Discriminations, No Left Turns, Catholic Ragemonkey, JunkYardBlog, The Mighty Barrister, Envoy Encore, Vociferous Yawpings, Belmont Club, Ad Limina Apostolorum, HobbsOnline, Catholic and Enjoying It, Transterrestrial Musings, Catholic Light, Silflay Hraka, and Endnote.

NY Times Hides Evidence While Calling Administration "Misleading" @ That Liberal Media:

The New York Times, less than a week after demanding apologies from George Bush and Dick Cheney for supposedly misleading Americans on ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, publishes a report detailing even more ties and evidence of collaboration between Saddam and bin Laden....

Preferentialists: Hoisted On Their Own Pétard! @ Discriminations (embedded ellipsis in original):

According to a fascinating front page article in today's New York Times, it has begun to dawn on Lani Guinier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and other preferentialists at Harvard and elsewhere that you'd better be very careful what you subsidize, for you'll certainly get more of it ... and it may not be exactly what you had in mind....

What is a Successful Attack? @ No Left Turns:

A few minutes ago, I attended an impromptu press briefing held by a senior coalition official. He reported that there have been a number of coordinated attacks this morning in Fallujah, Mosul, Ramadi, and Baqubah. In Baqubah, the police station was briefly overrun, and CNN is reporting that similar attacks on police stations occurred in Mosul and Ramadi. The spokesman stated that he was not sure if the Anti-Iraqi Forces were still claiming control of the police station in Baqubah, but he contended that a combination of Coalition forces and Iraqi National Guard (the new name for what was formerly the ICDC) had the situation well in hand. He also stated that the Coalition had struck back with laser guided bombs against homes which had been used to launch attacks with small arms and RPGs. In characterizing the overall status, the senior spokesman noted that "the attacks have gone over their peak." ....

The Heart of the Matter @ Catholic Ragemonkey:

I think I've got it. Something has been nagging at me, like an appointment I haven't quite forgotten about, for about two weeks. Tonight, I figured it out....

Putin Speaks, Media Run for Cover @ JunkYardBlog:

The media blackout/whitewash of Vladimir Putin's revelations about Saddam's designs on America continues: ....

Abortion — It Does A Doctor Good @ The Mighty Barrister:

This is the sort of thing you don’t hear about on the evening news. From This Is London we learn just how sick and depraved doctors can be: ....

Standing By My Word @ Envoy Encore:

Recently I received some criticism for using the word “bigotry” to describe what those receiving support and encouragement through Mary’s Mantle go through on an on-going basis in their homes and among their family members. So I did some research on the word “bigotry” to see if indeed it applied to the stories I had heard....

The Spirit, the Raccoon Trap, and the Calico Cat @ Vociferous Yawpings:

We got varmints. In the past couple of months, our backyard has been the nocturnal latrine of a pack of raccoons. There may be other things visiting, we’ve seen at lease on skunk, but the raccoons have been observed more than once in our yard. Why they decided to use our yard for their collective calls of nature is beyond me, but use it they have will – pardon the pun – frightening regularity....

The Revolution Within the Revolution @ Belmont Club (emphasis in original):

The particular venom with which the Liberals regard President Bush is at heart a reaction to what they perceive as a coup de etat directed against the carefully constructed edifice of their historical achievements. To understand why the President and individuals like Paul Wolfowitz are described as "illegitimate", one should not, like the man who doesn't get the reference, look to the Florida chads or US Supreme Court decisions. Liberals are not talking about that kind of statutory legitimacy. Rather they are referring to what is perceived as a brazen attempt to negate the cultural equivalent of the Brezhnev doctrine, the idea that certain "progressive" modes of behavior, once attained, are irreversible. In this view, an entire set of attitudes, commonly referred to as "political correctness" and their institutional expressions, like the United Nations, have become part of a social contract, part of an unwritten constitution....

Politics, Morality, and Conscience @ Ad Limina Apostolorum:

In his famous 'Pius XXIII quote,' John Kerry clumsily formulated his theory of a rigid demarcation between the autonomous spheres of politics and morality, any transgression of which runs up against the stalwart palisade of the 'primacy of conscience.' Kerry's hero is the 'man of conscience,' bravely taking his stand against the onslaught of all external foes, against the 'voices of the establishment,' standing firm upon the bulwark of his inner convictions. The 'man of conscience' is a martyr, a saint, willing to sacrifice life and limb to defend the sanctuary within the innermost depths of his being....

Because I Could @ HobbsOnline:

I've taken the liberty of reproducing Maureen Dowd's latest New York Times column here, and adding a few helpful hyperlinks to help Ms. Dowd make her points more effectively....

A dear friend writes @ Catholic and Enjoying It:

I've been glancing at material on your blog and on the whole, I realize that I have a moral obligation to try eventually (certainly before November) to sort out this torture thing. I do have some basic epistemological issues....

President Announces Controversial New Educational Initiative @ Transterrestrial Musings:

LOS ANGELES (APUPI) June 20, 2004

Standing in front of the Los Angeles Times building on Spring Street and surrounded by aides, President Bush put forth a new and long-overdue proposal today, to the cheers of thousands of long-suffering readers of that paper, to start to repair the tragic situation with the American journalism system. He called it "No Reporter Left Behind." ....

Inside Canada's Culture War @ Catholic Light:

As a number of my print readers enjoyed the following interview I conducted with Paul Tuns, editor of the Interim (Canada's national pro-life newspaper) for the Wanderer, I thought I would share it with my cyber-readership as well. Enjoy!...

One Of These Things Is Not Like the Other @ Silflay Hraka:

In only one of these photos is the person responsible for the atrocity depicted being punished by the same system that produced that person....

Conversation With My Sister @ Endnote:

My younger sister and I usually avoid face to face debates since we agree on virtually nothing. For awhile we were emailing our opinions on various issues back and forth, but even that became acrimonious.

Well, the subject of the Abu Gharib prisoner abuse accidentally came up last night (no, it wasn't me). The subject was actually brought up as the prisoner "torture", which should clear up who started it. I offered that what was done in that prison prior to liberation was torture not what she what she referring to. Immediately she waved her hands in front of her face and she said "we can't even talk about that". Then she proceeded to begin talking about it....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 06/26/04 07:38:24 AM
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