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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled California’s Prop. 8 banning gay marriage to be unconstitutional. Over to Col. Renault who is no doubt shocked! A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Proposition 8, California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. But backers of [...] Actress — and lesbian — Cynthia Nixon, most famously from Sex and the City, has run afoul of the gay PC mafia by stating that she chose to be gay. Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political. Very political. The [...] Robert Kagan of The Brookings Institution (and the Reagan Administration among many other posts) has an interesting piece entitled “Against the Myth of American Decline at The New Republic (of all places!): Is the United States in decline, as so many seem to believe these days? Or are Americans in danger of committing [...] Photo courtesy of National Geographic A man was gored and then trampled to death by a “flaming-horned bull”: A flaming-horned bull trampled and fatally gored a man early Saturday during a festival in eastern Spain, an official said. Large balls of flaming wax are traditionally affixed to the beasts’ heads before they are let [...] A pretty consistent question I get from students over the years is why do liberals often appear to be either very rich or very poor. The very por are easy to explain… they are often direct beneficiaries of government largesse. But what do affluent people get from big government liberal policies like the environmental [...] Just because you have the right to vote doesn’t mean you need to exercise it. Think about it lazy dudes feeding off the government teat… even voting sounds like hard work — it’s exercise! John Stossel expresses well what I have thought and talked about for a long while now. Ignorant people need not [...] Newsweek finally descends below the intellectual level of Mad Magazine. Two things… 1. Newsweek still prints? 2. I thought Andrew Sullivan was dead. Share on Facebook Instapundit linked to a great piece by Michael Walsh in The New York Post on the origins of New York’s gun control laws: Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of [...] The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook This is genius… pure and simple… and maddening Share on Facebook Remember the recent flap over the Michelle Obama-as-Marie Antoinette? via the LA Times: The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro,” which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War [...] Do you know why the story of David and Goliath sticks with us even after 3,500 years? Because David’s victory is the exception to the rule. Usually the giant wins. And Goliath won yet another one yestrday as Dr.Pepper Snapple forced Dublin Dr. Pepper to stop bottling its pure cane version of Dr. Pepper [...] From a blog called “Killing the Buddha” comes this interesting article on the making of, marketing of, and history of communion wafers. The melding of economics, religion, Vatican II, and the concerns of celiac disease suffering Catholics… and all while it’s bread and not Body: Nineteen clicks of the mouse, the electronic brandishing of [...] A thanks to Eric & Outlaw, who keep that decade fresh for all of us. What was the dumbest fashion? coolest trend? greatest video game? TV show? film? group? album? music video? book? 5. dumbest fashion: women’s hair – Not mine, of course! but every female lead singer of the era. 4. tie: song: Shout (Tears for [...] This article highlights two things that are soapbox issues for me — overcriminalization of conduct not traditionally criminal — and public sector unions. Put them together and what do you get? A witches brew that breaks the bank, potentially oppresses the populace, and turns the American criminal justice system into a threat to liberty [...] one more from the Everything is a Remix guy. Clips from 30 different movies from 1919-1973 used in Raiders… old hat to pros probably… interesting to me. Share on Facebook I knew Ireland was neutral during WW2 and I know and understand why many Irish still hate the British…. But I didn’t know it ran this deep during and after World War 2… from the BBC: John Stout served with the Irish Guards armoured division which raced to Arnhem to capture a key bridge. He [...] Here’s an interesting piece from New Scientist on “outsider physicists” and other amateur, non-credentialed scientists. IN OCTOBER 1991, astrophysicists observed something incredible in the skies above Dugway Proving Ground, a former weapons-testing facility in a remote corner of Utah. It was a cosmic ray with an enormous amount of energy – equivalent to the kinetic [...] Greek and Armenian Orthodox priests were duking it out with brooms at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem earlier… Here’s the story from the BBCL Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests and monks came to blows during preparations for Orthodox Christmas celebrations Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian [...] I learn something new everyday. Jesus is buried in Japan dontchaknow…. from io9: In the 2,800-person village of Shing? in Japan’s Aomori prefecture, you can visit a tourist attraction that earns almost doodlysquat fanfare despite its world-shattering theological ramifications. I am, of course, talking about the grave of Jesus Christ. What, you didn’t know [...] Now who would’ve have thought that making decisions based on solely or mostly on race would lead to bad outcomes? Anyone with a lick of sense of course. Now the numbers are starting to emerge on the damage affirmative action has wrought. From Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe: In a report published last year [...] |
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