Michelle Malkin put forward the risible claim, in her “book” Unhinged, that the political Right in America polices itself, and that examples of right-wing extremism are quickly denounced by mainstream conservatives. (The political Left, on the other hand, by contrast, is characterized by loose cannons whose outrageous remarks are met with silence from mainstream [...]
Jedmunds at Pandagon linked to a Times (UK) article which reports that “Judas Iscariot… is to be given a makeover by Vatican scholars.” Is Judas a misunderstood character? Did he actually fulfill a crucial role in Christ’s passion?
The proposed “rehabilitation” of the man who was paid 30 pieces of silver to identify Jesus [...]
A “Random Ten”? Why not, readers? Everybody else is doing it. I’ve even ripped a couple of MP3s for you to download if you want to. (They’re the songs whose titles are links you can click on.)
1st Bass, “Slam Me Down” (from Disc 1 of Luke Slater’s DJ mix “Fear And [...]
You should read this Reason magazine interview with Russell Tice, an ex-NSA guy who was one of the NYT’s sources for the warrant-free-wiretapping story. Take it with a grain of salt if you like; Tice has detractors who say he’s a malcontent. Some highlights:
REASON: Are you at all sympathetic to claims that [...]
If you’re a fan of del.icio.us and you use Mozilla Firefox, you ought to check out the del.icio.us Firefox extension, which integrates your social bookmark manager right into your web browser. That’s good stuff, readers.
The point is obvious, but it needs to be made: The problem with illegal NSA wiretapping is not the fact that wiretapping is taking place. Wingnuts and Kool-Aid drinkers have been repeatedly trying to make it sound like Democrats, liberals, and left-wingers are objecting to the simple fact that the NSA is listening [...]
Paul Mirengoff has published a nonsensical Daily Standard article in which he seems to be suggesting that the problem with “the left-liberal ethos” is a failure to view America as a sort of Platonic ideal of itself. He claims that those who object to torture of prisoners or warrant-free wiretaps of US citizens do [...]
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Are any of you, readers, familiar with the Pimsleur family of language-learning products and courses?
I am deeply skeptical of the “Pimsleur approach” –
You really can learn everything you need to speak [language X] fluently in only 10 hours! Numerous studies have revealed that in every country, native-speakers use only about 2,500 distinct words [...]
1. The Bush administration continues to argue that the “global war on terror” gives the president the authority to make any decision he chooses, without any kind of judicial or legislative oversight, as long as he does so under the rubric of the “war on terror,” and claims the mantle of Commander-In-Chief while doing [...]
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