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Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ The Dawn Patrol, Midwest Conservative Journal, cut on the bias, Discriminations, Hoystory.com, SecretAgentMan, Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing, No Left Turns, The Corner, Dappled Things, Catholic and Enjoying It, JunkYardBlog, Dynamist Blog, and Captain's Quarters.

The [New York] Times' Abortion Debacle That Won't Die @ The Dawn Patrol (emphasis in orignal):

New revelations make it increasingly probable that the New York Times not only knew Amy Richards was an abortion-rights activist, but even timed its article to coincide with Planned Parenthood's mass-marketing of her "I had an abortion" T-shirt....

Laodiceans @ Midwest Conservative Journal:

In a few days, we here in Missouri will vote on a constitutional amendment restricting marriage to a man and a woman. So, good leftist that he is, Missouri Episcopal Bishop George Wayne Smith decides to get a little name-calling in before the election. Mind you, Smith claims he supports marriage: ....

Not my problem! @ cut on the bias:

I can't reveal why this is an issue for me today, but I suspect you'll figure it out after reading it....

The Carefully Crafted "Diversity" Of The Democratic Convention @ Discriminations:

The Democrats are quite proud of themselves for the "diversity" of their convention delegates....

Fisking Jimmah @ Hoystory.com:

I was at work yesterday evening when the volume was turned up on many of the ubiquitous TV sets to listen to former President Jimmy Carter address the Democrat convention. It was all I could do to contain some of my comments as several reporters lined up to watch....

Dressing like a Doofus @ SecretAgentMan:

A good post by Old Oligarch is being noticed by lots of bloggers. That’s good. It’s shameful, the way some women dress for Mass. The "fashion" failings of women are bound up with sexual vanity. But the failings of men are bound up with a casual contempt for the duties of religion. The women preen, the men shirk. It resembles Eden, I think. There’s Eve, preening over her impending self-divinization. And over there we see Adam the coward, scuffing the dirt with his toe, shirking his duty to the whole freaking universe. A lot of women dress like Eve for Mass. And a lot of men dress like Adam. Herewith my comment on the male half of the phenomenon....

Sing Muses, of the Wonderful Virtues of 20-20 Hind-Sight! @ Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing:

So now, it is perfectly plain, that we all should have seen it coming: Congress and CIA/FBI, and 60 Minutes and all — the muses and gods know that it was all written out plain for us, did we only have the wit and imagination to interpret correctly what had been laid out before us. Yea, even your humble author, a retired rear-echelon type with an eccentric penchant for reading all sorts of things, and altogether more books than are really called for in the household of someone not actually a PHD — oh, I should have seen it myself, even absent any meaningful connections to the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

Visiting the Mass Graves @ No Left Turns:

I will be writing a full article on my visit to the mass graves, but I wanted to write a post here to provide something of a preview. My trip began on Friday with a drive down to Al Hillah. I was traveling with a representative of USAID, and therefore had the benefit of an armored SUV and a security detail. The road to Hillah from Baghdad is Rte. 1, a highway which Saddam reportedly built and maintained in order to facilitate his incursion into Kuwait. The road has been closed to non-Coalition traffic, and has numerous checkpoints along the way. As we drew further south, we entered the Multi National area of operations overseen by the Polish forces, and encountered a number of the Poles....

How not to win friends and influence people (or "How I spent my weekend") @ Catholic and Enjoying It:

A total stranger writes out of the blue: ....

9/11 Commission, Churchill, and Finger-Pointing @ The Corner:

Sir Martin Gilbert’s Winston Churchill’s War Leadership — an excellent little book — discusses how Churchill refused to engage in recriminations when he assumed the Prime Minister’s position at Britain’s darkest hour....

Bluebirds and Jaybirds @ Dappled Things:

Doctor Tom More, the psychiatrist main character in Walker Percy's Thanatos Syndrome, says that nearly everyone he knows — sick, sane, and in between — falls into one of two categories: the bluebirds or the jaybirds....

Sullivan Succumbs to the Forces of MooreGore @ JunkYardBlog:

Right Wing News does an admirable job of fisking Andrew Sullivan. Not much I can add to it.

I'll admit I was prepared to get brutal on Sullivan, too, when I saw a link to a Sullivan article saying that Kerry is the conservative choice this year.

But rather than just cowboying up to take him down, I went on to other things all day. I read. I tinkered with my car. We had dinner. I tickled my kid, and chatted with my wife. I smoked my pipe....

The Voice of Fear @ Dynamist Blog:

When I was in New York a few weeks ago, a friend in the magazine business told me he thinks the ferocious Bush hating that he sees in New York is a way of calming the haters' fears of terrorism. It's not rational, but it's psychologically plausible — blame the cause you can control, at least indirectly through elections, rather than the threats you have no control over....

The Biased (Or Attention-Deficit) Media @ Captain's Quarters:

Howard Kurtz notes a disconnect in the coverage of Joe Wilson's disintegrating credibility. In a secondary article of his Media Notes column, Kurtz has the numbers to demonstrate either a leftist bias or simply lousy and lazy journalism in the mainstream media, especially broadcast outlets: ....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 07/31/04 07:46:45 AM
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