FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Afghan Candidates Vow to Boycott Results: "Millions of ethnically diverse Afghan voters crammed polling stations for an election aimed at bringing peace and prosperity to a country nearly ruined by more than two decades of war."We are winning. Once people start voting. . . it is hard to stop the process. There are complaints of election turmoil. Is...
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FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Philosopher Jacques Derrida Dies at 74: "Provocative and as difficult to define as his favorite subject "deconstruction" Derrida has been a leading thinker for decades with a major impact on intellectuals."His views have been functionally dead in philosophy for decades. They are almost gone every place else. The exception? Christian colleges. There prof...
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HughHewitt.com: "The new subject: 'What do Kerry's answers to today's press inquiries tell us about Kerry's worldview and character?'"The key to Kerry's worldview was found in his worst debate answer yesterday. Kerry decided he would be a president that believes in science. He consistently described religious views as "belief." He is eager to impose the findings of "science" ...
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HughHewitt.com: "Lebanon? What does Kerry Mean by Lebanon?'"Kerry was the elite kid who was running out of money. Other rich kids were not letting him join in any of their rich kid games. He was too proud to work and too gentle to steal. So what was a Forbes-Kerry with a sinking trust fund to do?He had to live on his educational gifts. Note that I did not say he had to live on...
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Five reasons Bush won the debate:1. Kerry is a good podium speaker. He shifts left/right very well. However, there was no podium tonight which made his arm motions look robotic. I do both kinds of speaking and Bush is good at town halls. Kerry is not.2. Kerry delights wonks everywhere. Watch Fox News where people proud of their degrees hang out after debates. They all love Ker...
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MSNBC - How would Jesus vote?: "Conservative pastors such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 'would have us believe that morality is all about where you stand on abortion, how you treat homosexuals. I think that is simply wrong,' said John D. Moyers, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for American Progress."John D. Moyers is this semester's winner of the Uncle Tony a...
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David Frum's Diary on National Review Online: "The economic sanctions against Iraq had begun to disintegrate as early as 1996. By 1999, they were well on the way to disappearing altogether. As soon as they did so, Saddam Hussein intended to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction using the scientists and know-how he had carefully preserved through the 1990s.In other words...
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Opie Leaves Home: The Debate as Sit ComSadly, we saw what happened to Opie tonight. He grew up, went to college, and forgot all the home town values he learned in Mayberry. He became a trial lawyer and took fifty percent of poor people's money to get rich. Then he exploited stories from his childhood, making his family look pathetic, to win votes. Now he has returned and the g...
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ABC.com: Desperate HousewivesThis has to be the worst television show of the year. Pretentious and tacky. . . it is offensive, but boring. It exploits women and liberal stereotypes about the upper middle class.Hope and I sat down to watch what Disney thinks of my wife and her profession of homemaker. Shock. They don't think much of it. Thank goodness for TIVO, because this sho...
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Yes, it is once again Uncle Tony time.This week we shall be giving out an "Uncle Tony" award to those evangelical who manage to get in the highly anticipated, though a bit over due, "Look! Not all evangelicasl are conservatives!" story. The main stream media usually runs one of these hold-your-breath stories about now. They find some usual suspect like award namesake Tony Camp...
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Peter Pan - The MusicalLa Mirada is lucky to host this luminous musical. Landing the brilliant McCoy-Rigby combination is a credit to the best run town in Los Angeles county. Rigby is simply a marvel. Rigby is Pan, pulling off the difficult emotional subtext with verve. Her Pan has depth and, yes, sub-text without slowing down the action. Rigby has created the standard for th...
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Kerry's fear of nuclear weapons as opposed to "conventional" weapons is either irrational or motivated by an implicit pacifism.Bombs kill people and it does not matter to the people being killed whether they die from a "conventional" or nuclear weapon. Small nuclear weapons are in theory no more dangerous than conventional bombs and might (under some circumstances) be morally ...
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The Iconoclast: "So here's to you, Newt. Ten years after you launched the revolution, you may have disappeared from public view, but your place in history is secure. "Am I the only who finds Newt self-serving, hypocritical, and shallow? Sin is one thing. Thank God there is forgiveness for it and a second chance. However, Newt mocks family values in his personal life while bein...
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