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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Ongoing OPs

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Bill Roggio writing for Winds of Change updates us on some of the ongoing military operations in Iraq. Here's part of his post: Secu...

Hmmm

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Pat Buchanan notes that if President Bush had nominated John Paul II to a federal judgeship he would have been filibustered by Senate D...

Post-Mortem

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Joe Knippenberg at No Left Turns offers some advice to the Republicans in the wake of the filibuster "compromise". If I were do...

CAFTA

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Froma Harrop of The Providence Journal makes a persuasive case for the Central American Free Trade Agreement. She argues that the jobs whi...
Monday, May 23, 2005

GOP Follies

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What are the pros and cons of the "compromise" on judicial filibusters? The only benefit from a Republican point of view that I ca...

World Population Trends Down

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Richard Neuhaus discusses the latest demographic projections in an essay in the March issue of First Things and they really are quite start...

Real Martyrs

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When it comes to sheer savagery in the name of religion Muslims do not have a total monopoly as this story illustrates: BHUBANESWAR, Indi...

ABC News on the Filibuster

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ABC News did a blurb on the radio the other night about the rules change vote expected to occur in the senate and mentioned that although li...
Sunday, May 22, 2005

Howard Dean

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Howard Dean referred to the filibuster on Meet the Press today as a protection of the rights of the minority. This is a silly claim for seve...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Machiavelli Must be Smiling

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Kausfiles quotes James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal who gives two very good reasons why Democrats might postpone a fight over the fi...

Our Administration Barks

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I find it interesting to watch our present administration as they attempt to blame other countries for problems that are clearly the fault o...

The Demarcation Problem

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One of the oft heard criticisms of Intelligent Design theory is that it is putatively non-scientific, i.e. it doesn't meet the criteria ...

And Throw Away the Key!

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Here's a switch. The ACLU is actually trying to get the authorities to put lawbreakers into jail. Surprised? Well, the surprise might ...
Friday, May 20, 2005

Ideological Taxonomy

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The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has an interesting test that will pigeon-hole your ideological predilections for you. ...

Use it and They Lose it

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Republicans have called for cloture on the debate over the nomination of Priscilla Owen. A cloture petition requires the approval of 60 of ...

Cheap Ethics

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A recent Zogby poll of 18 to 24 year olds finds that: Young Americans entering the workforce overwhelmingly value honesty and integrity,...

Imagine

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Ed Whelan at NRO poses the following scenario: Imagine, if you will, that a Democrat President nominated a judge whose constitutional and...

Purging Religion From Public Life

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Here are four posts from Tongue-Tied which show just how unwilling some people are to honor and celebrate the diversity which makes us a gr...
Thursday, May 19, 2005

Prager on Moral Absolutes

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Viewpoint has frequently observed that in order for there to be any meaningful morality there must be a transcendent moral authority. Other...

<i>Newsweek's</i> Hypocrisy

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Newsweek's decision to run a false story about military interrogators flushing a Koran down a toilet is of a piece with Dan Rather'...