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Sunday, May 28, 2006

IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

This little aphorism ought to be classified as a “duh”.......but many in the U.S. seem to have a big investment in denying the truth of it, at least in one area.
Ramesh Ponnuru’s NEW BOOK “THE PARTY OF DEATH” is a long exposition that logically establishes the link between the abortion license in the U.S. and the BRAVE NEW WORLD we’re creating for ourselves.

Posted by Earl on 05/28 at 04:14 PM
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Monday, May 22, 2006

THE SAUDIS ARE OUR FRIENDS…...SAYS WHO?

We’ve heard it so often - although in the past, Islamic schools taught thoroughly illiberal curricula to their students, they have been cleansed of zenophobic language, and of hatred for anything not Islamic.

A 2004 Saudi royal study group recognized the need for reform after finding that the kingdom’s religious studies curriculum “encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into believing that in order to safeguard their own religion, they must violently repress and even physically eliminate the ‘other.‘ “ Since then, the Saudi government has claimed repeatedly that it has revised its educational texts.

Posted by Earl on 05/22 at 10:00 AM
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Sunday, May 21, 2006

MURDER (AND OTHER) MYSTERIES SET IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Gail and I have just finished reading (out loud) the second “Abel Jones mystery”, SHADOWS OF GLORY, written by Owen Parry (a bit of a mystery, himself, as I don’t find any biographical information about him the first time around.)

Posted by Earl on 05/21 at 09:15 PM
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LET’S GET SERIOUS ABOUT THE WAR ON FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM

I keep hearing that you can’t fight a war against a religion…..before YOU say it, please READ THIS.

Plow your way through the initial paragraphs….you’ll get to the important part. Read it all—our grandchildren will live in the world we create for them.

I don’t think I’d ever heard of DAN SIMMONS until reading this essay. If you’ve read other things he’s written, let us hear from you.

Posted by Earl on 05/21 at 04:41 PM
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JOHN DERBYSHIRE CALLED IT “SMILE, YOU’RE A TALKING HEAD”.....

That was on THE CORNER at noon yesterday.

The story is that the BBC made a HUGE mistake on live TV…...and, of course, there is tape!

UPDATE BELOW

Posted by Earl on 05/21 at 09:14 AM
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Friday, May 19, 2006

TIME MAGAZINE GOES TO THE SHOOTING RANGE…..

At least, a reporter does…..and for a Time (Pacific edition) reporter to write the following seems out of the ordinary to me:

Guns for me equaled danger and crime. Even after I started shooting, I had a lingering sense that the rifle or pistol, even the brass rounds I was pressing into its magazine, might explode at any moment. I still handle guns with caution—the first rule of firearms safety is to treat every gun as if it’s loaded. But I now know that to call them evil, as Australian Prime Minister John Howard recently did, is a statement of good-hearted ignorance.

Guns aren’t moral agents, they’re machines—elegant, superbly efficient, made to fit the human hand.

Posted by Earl on 05/19 at 03:54 PM
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

DO YOU LIKE MOVIES? BOOKS? STRANGE AND WONDERFUL ONES?

Then you should know that SERAPHIC SECRET is written by a Hollywood screenwriter of 25 years, whose favorite movie is The Seven Sumarai, and he has an incredible list of favorite movies (most of which, I confess, I have never heard of), about which he writes lucidly and with great insight.

Posted by Earl on 05/18 at 08:40 PM
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