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  1. The Myth of Energy Breakthroughs

    → Gregor.us | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:11 pm MST

    Renewed belief in the concept of Energy Breakthrough seems resurgent these days, as a versatile scientist now helms the Department of Energy, and famous people such as Bill Gates invoke the need (and thus our quest) for energy miracles. The notion of a technological breakthrough was also, unsurprisingly, at play this weekend when I attended [...]

  2. Do you know why I pulled you over? [Pic]

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm MST

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  3. I gave up drinking when I woke up

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 7:50 pm MST

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  4. The 15 Best Pictures of Christina Hendricks

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 7:50 pm MST

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  5. Execution Halted - For Medical Reasons

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 7:30 pm MST

    Lawrence Reynolds Jr. was scheduled to die today, but the governor of Ohio halted the execution so that Reynolds could be given medical treatment and be in tip-top shape for the lethal injection.

  6. The Last Button You'll Ever Push (PIC)

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 7:20 pm MST

    I love pushing buttons, knobs, switches, etc. But this is definitely one button I'd stay away from...

  7. Playing with the boys

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 9 Mar 2010 | 7:06 pm MST

    I love explanations like this : "I should have never allowed myself to be as familar with my staff as I was, I never translated my days in the Navy to being a Congressman," Massa said.



  8. David Letterman's Extornist Pleads Guilty

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 6:50 pm MST

    David Letterman's extortionist just plead guilty to one count of grand larceny in the second degree.




  9. The 7 Dumbest Celebrity Lawsuits of All Time

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 6:30 pm MST

    With news today that Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade over the use of her name in a commercial, we thought we’d take a look back at some of the most ridiculous celebrity lawsuits of all-time




  10. Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 6:00 pm MST

    Pink Floyd and its label, EMI, are battling over online royalties stemming from a contested clause in their decade-old contract. The developer of The Dark Side of the Moon and other top-selling albums claims its contract with EMI requires its music to be sold as an entire album, not the single tracks that EMI has permitted iTunes to distribute...




  11. Romanian street sign warns drivers of 'drunk pedestrians'

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 5:50 pm MST

    Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs worried about the "despairing" levels of accidents.

  12. Americans Spend More On Health Care, Live Shorter

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 5:13 pm MST

    A look at the cost of universal healthcare, and whether an insurance model could work.

  13. Man Buys Crack With Monopoly Money

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm MST

    When you attempt to pull one over on a drug dealer, they might be looking for retribution. For evidence, take a look at this case in Kansas in which a man bought hundreds of dollars worth of crack with Monopoly money and, weeks later, police found him driving with a bloodied face.

  14. Biggie Smalls is Still Influential 13 Years After his Death

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:42 pm MST

    Today is the 13th-year-anniversary of Biggie Smalls (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) death. He was one of the most momentous hip hop artists of all time. Here he is before he made it, rapping, age 17 on a Brooklyn street corner.




  15. The 7 People You Meet at The Gym

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:40 pm MST

    And how you can avoid becoming them.

  16. 7 Tips to Get Your Business in the Sweet Spot for Growth

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:39 pm MST

    These 7 tips will get your professional services team ignited and ready to tackle the new recovery on the front foot.

  17. Two Of Oldest People In World Die On Same Day

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:30 pm MST

    Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years, 342 days

  18. Stocks muster gains; Nasdaq at 18-month high

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:29 pm MST

    Stocks managed gains Tuesday at the end of a choppy session as investors mulled the latest corporate deal and profit news on the anniversary of the bear-market bottom.

  19. Treasurys inch up amid strong demand for 3-year notes

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:04 pm MST

    Treasurys inched slightly higher Tuesday, in the midst of the government's $40 billion auction of 3-year notes -- the first of several multibillion-dollar note and bond offerings in the coming days.

  20. Bingeing Begets Bingeing in Failed College Ads

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:02 pm MST

    Professor finds that emphasis on shame, plus wrong message on addictive behaviors, dooms anti-bingeing ads

  21. Patton Oswalt To Write 'Firefly' Comic Book (pic)

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm MST

    Comedian Patton Oswalt is penning a stand-alone comic book that picks up the action where the story left off. Also, the cover art has been released!




  22. Rock 'N' Roll Metro Map v1.0

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm MST

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  23. Happy Dogs Wearing Coats (PIC)

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:20 pm MST

    'nuff said.

  24. House eyes last-minute tax break for Chile donations

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:18 pm MST

    Taxpayers may still be able to deduct last-minute donations to Chile earthquake relief from their 2009 taxes, if a bipartisan bill introduced in the House on Tuesday is signed into law.

  25. The Past Helping The Future?

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:12 pm MST

    Italian regional elections have hidden some potential gems under the foolish mistakes of the old parties.

  26. LifeLock settles with FTC for $12 million

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:01 pm MST

    Federal regulators said Tuesday that LifeLock has agreed to pay $12 million to settle charges the company made deceptive claims about its ability to protect customers from identity theft.

  27. Dollar mixed in quiet trading

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:01 pm MST

    The dollar recovered losses versus the euro and rose against the pound, but fell versus the yen in quiet trading Tuesday.

  28. Digital rights group blasts Apple over iPhone developer agreement

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:48 pm MST

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation took a critical stance against Apple this week, when the digital rights advocacy group posted in its entirety the confidential license agreement to which all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch developers must agree.



  29. Police Shoot & Kill Barking Labrador in Backyard

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:10 pm MST

    The owner said he was away when his burglar alarm went off. Officers responded and started to check the back door to see if anyone had broken in. The family dog came running out and was shot in the head by Officer Mark Morales. Morales was not bitten or scratched by the dog and he neither tried to kick the dog away or use a taser or pepper spray.

  30. WTF Is This Thing? [Pic]

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:10 pm MST

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  31. Budget squeeze sours jobs picture

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:07 pm MST

    Another big employer is hanging out the "Not Hiring" sign.

  32. Some execs get 'pity' bonus

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:05 pm MST

    Maybe you missed your earnings target last year or your stock was crushed. But if you're a corporate executive, that might not necessarily prohibit you from earning a generous bonus.

  33. Janitor Faces Prison After Stealing World Series Ring

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm MST

    On Monday a janitor who worked at Citizens Bank Ballpark pleaded guilty to stealing a World Series ring he found in a bathroom at the ballpark last summer, and now he's facing up to seven years behind bars.

  34. Betty White Confirms She'll Appear on Saturday Night Live

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm MST

    Betty White fans, your prayers have been answered. The former Golden Girl will appear on Saturday Night Live in the near future, she confirmed to PEOPLE at Elton John's annual Oscars viewing party on Sunday night.




  35. Cash for Clunkers: Better than we thought

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:51 pm MST

    The government's Cash for Clunkers program resulted in a far bigger boost to car sales than was previously estimated, even by the government, according to a new analysis by Maritz Research, an automotive market research company.

  36. Milk-a-what? Lindsay Lohan Sues E-Trade for $100M

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm MST

    Lohan says the "milkaholic" she-baby in the E-Trade commercial was modeled after her so she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, according to The New York Post. A spokesman for Grey Group, which produced the commercial, told the paper that the spot "just used a popular baby name that happened to be the name of someone on the account team.




  37. World War II, Facebook Version

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm MST

    A modern adaptation of world war II for the American teenager

  38. Quentin Tarantino Sued Over 'Kill Bill'

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:40 pm MST

    Quentin Tarantino "lost" in the Oscar race -- and now he's being sued by a man who claims Q.T. stole his concept and character to create 'Kill Bill'...




  39. Oscar Winner Christoph Waltz was in German "Trololololololo"

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:40 pm MST

    Austrian-born, German-speaking Christoph Waltz snagged his first Oscar last night for his performance in 'Inglourious Basterds', and after the awards Jimmy Kimmel decided to dig deeper into the actor's past. Seems like one of Waltz's first gigs, 'Der Humpink' is very similar to a recent video that's been traveling around the web...Trolololololololo




  40. Fears of a Greek bank run

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:33 pm MST

    In the middle of the 2001 debt crisis, Argentines stormed their nation's banks to get their money out. To stop the stampede, the government imposed controls that allowed them to take out only $250 at a time and limited withdrawals for overseas trips to $1,000.

  41. Andy Richter Rips on Jay Leno and NBC (Video)

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm MST

    When asked whether he harbors ill will toward the network or Leno, Richter replied, "Yes. Yes, I do. Well, why wouldn't I? I mean, my god, I'd be like some sort of self-hater."




  42. Regional Slang: What Does "Chode" Mean?

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm MST

    We all know how different regions of the US might say "soda," "Coke," "pop," or "soft drink," but what about "chode"? It seems that it means one thing in the northeast and another elsewhere. This is a study into what's what for the word that everyone loves saying.

  43. Oil falls as the dollar firms

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:11 pm MST

    Oil prices fell Tuesday as a stronger dollar overshadowed a modest advance on Wall Street.

  44. Craigslist Ad Solicits Babysitter For Oregon Football Team

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:10 pm MST

    Because they've been so well behaved these last few weeks. Get it? Seriously, Chip Kelly should probably hire someone.

  45. 10 Movies That Were Better Than The Books

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:10 pm MST

    We’re well aware of the old canard “the book is better than the movie.” But, every once in a while, the movie wins.




  46. How To Write A Hollywood Rom-com In 10 Easy Steps

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm MST

    Unless you’ve been living in the moron cave on Retard Mountain, you’ve probably noticed that romantic comedies are big business. Movies like The Proposal, The Ugly Truth, that one with Matthew McConaughey and the treasure; they’re out there earning two and three hundred million dollars.




  47. CBS Airs Live Colonoscopy

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:59 pm MST

    CBS co-anchor, Harry Smith is following in Katie Couric’s footsteps by airing his live colonoscopy on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 during “The Early Show”.

  48. New Process Finds Masterworks in Florence Chapel

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:41 pm MST

    Restoration team uses ultraviolet light to see details in damaged painting by Giotto

  49. Toyota Prius Highway Incident

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:40 pm MST

    Another Prius Runs Away

  50. 7 (Thankfully) Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:30 pm MST

    In prehistoric times, you would've had to wear a diaper wherever you went on account of these pants-***** huge monsters ready to eat you.

  51. Drunk Curling Fan Ejected From Nationals

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:17 pm MST

    This is probably a first in American curling. At least he didn't pull a William Ligue.

  52. South Park's First Ever Deleted Scene (Video)

    → digg.com: Stories / Entertainment / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:10 pm MST

    And awesomely enough, it involves Randy Marsh. And a Pinewood Derby Car. And a ton of F-bombs. You're our bitch, Taft.




  53. Kid Makes Funny Faces Behind Sandra Bullock at the Oscars

    → digg.com: Stories / Offbeat / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:00 pm MST

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  54. Cult soda maker Jones agrees to sharply discounted takeover

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:53 am MST

    Jones Soda, the struggling maker of cult-favorite soft drinks, has agreed to be acquired by rival Reed's at a deep discount in a deal worth just shy of $10 million, the companies said Tuesday.

  55. The Dow's best performer is ...

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:40 am MST

    The hottest blue chip stock this year isn't what you think. It's not a big bank on the mend, a gadget maker with a hot new product, or a retailer with soaring sales.

  56. U.S. minted more millionaires in 2009

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:29 am MST

    America's millionaires are on the rise again, according to a report issued Tuesday, after their ranks thinned out during the 2008 market meltdown.

  57. The splendiferous Dave Cameron poster generator... hehehehe

    → Samizdata.net | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:23 am MST

    This is splendid almost beyond words. Now go make your own! Hat tip to John Farrier...

  58. Syracuse's Jim Boeheim Wins SN's Coach of the Year

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am MST

    Boeheim lost one NBA lottery pick and two of his other top players last season, but the Orange only got stronger and they appear to be on their way to a No. 1 seed this season. It's a credit to Boeheim, who has more than 800 career wins.

  59. Cisco unveils ultra-fast Internet technology

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:48 am MST

    Cisco unveiled a new Internet technology Tuesday that it says will provide the ultra-fast data speeds necessary to stay ahead of users' rapidly growing online video demands.

  60. Carl Edwards NOT Suspended For Keselowski Crash: AP

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:31 am MST

    NASCAR will not suspend Carl Edwards for intentionally wrecking Brad Keselowski's car during last weekend's race at Atlanta.



  61. England Soccer Team Meeting Bugged, FA Investigates

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am MST

    High Drama, Intrigue, Espionage - Meet the English Football Team!

  62. Coach-Player Argument, Now With More Spittle! [Video]

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am MST

    Illinois coach Bruce Weber did not appreciate Demetri McCamey's attitude and let him know it. McCamey probably did not appreciate the spittle shower.

  63. Sex.com domain goes up for grabs

    → Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 9:59 am MST

    Sex.com, one of the most valuable Internet domain names, will go up for auction next week after the previous owner defaulted on its debts.

  64. Peter King: NFL Free Agency Is Overrated

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 9:40 am MST

    That's the thing about free agency: We celebrate it like it's a huge event, like if you get nothing done the opening 72 hours, your season's down the drain. There's a clarion call out there, and it's screaming: Free agency is vastly overrated.

  65. Five Reasons Why Corporate Blogs Fail

    → All articles at Technorati | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:16 am MST

    The only way to make corporate or brand blogs succeed is to apply brute force; write often, make the bog your main focus and promote it aggressively

  66. Wilson Co TN Girl 3, Fatally Shoots Self Mistook Gun For Video Game Controller

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 9 Mar 2010 | 6:09 am MST

    LEBANON, Tenn. -- A 3-year-old Wilson County girl accidentally shot and killed herself Sunday night, said local police.



  67. The slings and arrows of outrageous legislation...

    → Samizdata.net | 9 Mar 2010 | 5:33 am MST

    Iowahawk has delved into Shakespeare and uncovered this little known masterpiece. Enjoy!...

  68. Matt Cooke's Dirty Hit on Savard [Video]

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 4:30 am MST

    Penguins forward Matt Cooke injured Marc Savard on a viscous hit during Sunday's Boston-Pittsburgh contest. Savard didn't see him coming and got absolutely rocked on the play.

  69. Snowmobile vs Avalanche

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 2:40 am MST

    And the winner of the most frightening mountain chase is...

  70. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:59 am MST

    "In the 19th century, the British would have answered Mr Riley-Smith's question "What has trade to do with human understanding" very readily. It has a great deal to do with it, we would have said. Commerce is the main means of peaceful intercourse with other people. It is the circulatory system of the world. It is part of the constitution of liberty which, as the author rightly says, we exported to America. If we have...

  71. Dell Vostro 3000 Series Packs Portable Core i5 Power [Dell]

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:53 am MST

    BNET Technology provides daily industry trends and news coverage with insights for managers and executives about all aspects of the high-tech industry.



  72. Top Five "MLB Ready" Rookies

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am MST

    Which Rookies Will Start in the Bigs? These rookies will likely make the opening day roster and make an immediate impact.

  73. Breaking News: Canadians Love Hockey

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:20 pm MST

    *****

  74. Betty White Confirms Rumors Of SNL Appearance

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 8 Mar 2010 | 9:42 pm MST

    For those of us who want more laughs from Betty White after her appearance in the Snickers ad that premiered during the Super Bowl, it seems we will be getting to see the former Golden Girls star on Saturday Night Live .



  75. Hey, watch this sick slide! Whoops... (gif)

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 8 Mar 2010 | 5:50 pm MST

    That's gotta hurt.

  76. Google Preps to Launch App Store for Google Apps

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 8 Mar 2010 | 5:28 pm MST

    Is Google getting ready to launch a store for Apps this week? Rumor says so. There's An App for That News has been circulating on sites like The Wall Street Journal , Mashable and VentureBeat about Google's plans to sell third-party software.



  77. Saint's LB Scott Fujita Knows the Right Way to Leave A City

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 8 Mar 2010 | 3:10 pm MST

    Scott Fujita, a LB on the winning Super Bowl team, recently signed as a free agent with the Browns. Before leaving town he gave half of his Super Bowl check to charity. He said "The people of this city and region have been so good to me and my family that we just felt strongly about doing something to protect the city we have come to love so much"

  78. Post Office Loses $5,000 in Hockey Cards

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 8 Mar 2010 | 2:30 pm MST

    A package containing 50 hockey cards valued at $5,000 disappeared in Canada's postal system and an official said "it's nowhere to be found."

  79. OSU Football Coach would Embrace an Openly Gay Buckeye

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 8 Mar 2010 | 2:20 pm MST

    Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel did something recently that shouldn't be a very big deal -- but is a big deal, at least symbolically: He granted an interview to Outlook Columbus, a magazine that caters to the area's gay community.

  80. Obama appeals for support on health care

    → The TexasFred Blog | 8 Mar 2010 | 1:48 pm MST

    Obama appeals for support on health care WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of legislation stalled in Congress. “Let’s seize reform, the need is great,” Obama said at [...]

  81. New Feature: UK Election Backgrounders

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 8 Mar 2010 | 1:03 pm MST

    News from the UK election campaign remains personality driven, with little new thinking as to what either of the big parties may actually do to turn around the British economy .



  82. Kentucky's John Wall Takes SN National Freshman of the Year

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 8 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm MST

    Wall is joined on the all-freshman team by Kentucky teammate DeMarcus Cousins, Georgia Tech's Derrick Favors, Arizona's Derrick Williams and Kansas' Xavier Henry.

  83. Cops: Big Ben Accuser Was 'Hysterical'

    → digg.com: Stories / Sports / Popular | 8 Mar 2010 | 12:42 pm MST

    The woman accusing Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault was...

  84. Spring is here (almost)

    → Samizdata.net | 8 Mar 2010 | 11:28 am MST

    Well, the days are getting longer, I have even seen quite a bit of the yellow thing in the sky, and I was woken up this morning by some randy pigeons on my terraced roof, so let's take it away, Mr Tom Lehrer: Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here. Life is skittles and life is beer. I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring. I do, don't you? 'course you do. But...

  85. UniGod

    → Reflecting Light | 8 Mar 2010 | 11:26 am MST

    I've been puzzling over something for a while. If you have answers to offer, please comment.Why didn't the concept of a single, unitary God appear in Western history until late in the classical world? Why not in ancient Greece and pre-Christian Rome?Greek civilization was hardly incurious. Its philosophers, from Socrates through Plato to Aristotle, as well as less famous names, seem to have

  86. I’m a Feminist!

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:28 am MST

    I believe in equal justice under the law for us human females, a principle that covers a multitude of rights. For example, equal pay for equal work, the right to vote, and the right to live.

  87. Houses For Sale

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 8 Mar 2010 | 8:47 am MST

    Solar Power Your Portfolio with this Stock. Stocks, Alternative Energy, Solar Power.



  88. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 8 Mar 2010 | 7:56 am MST

    Jack lost his iPhone last night. He has therefore been stuck at home on his Playstation 3 all day. - An (early twenties, male) customer overheard in a coffee bar in the East End yesterday afternoon. I can understand how the world outside the front door is a scary, scary place if it is just you, completely unaugmented....

  89. In-house drug bust

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 8 Mar 2010 | 4:32 am MST

    WEEKS AFTER a rash of corruption cases hit the police, four ancillary workers connected with the narcotics division have been hit with drug charges.



  90. The Confidence Consensus

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 8 Mar 2010 | 12:20 am MST

    " got that grit and intangibles of a great hockey leader, and he has an incredibly high offensive skill level.



  91. Texas Wal-Mart Shooting: Suspected Gunman Killed By Police

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Mar 2010 | 8:04 pm MST

    A man walked into a Walmart in Texas carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said.



  92. Bound Ambition

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 7 Mar 2010 | 3:47 pm MST

    Me and my blog. Oh boy. As I’ve mentioned a few times, I’m writing a novel in the paranormal and Christian genres. I started a year ago, and I’m presently rewriting/revising it. I hope to have it agent-ready by my birthday, May 5. Will I make it? I’ve invested a year writing this story. I’m determined [...]

  93. Ritalin boosts learning by increasing brain plasticity

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Mar 2010 | 3:36 pm MST

    Doctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to focus on tasks, but scientists now report that Ritalin also directly enhances the speed of learning.



  94. Here today but not gone tomorrow

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Mar 2010 | 2:44 pm MST

    The late Chris Tame, whom I used to assist in the running of the Alternative Bookshop and of the Libertarian Alliance, used to say, of blogging, that it was "here today and gone tomorrow". Well, indeed, most of it does pretty much fall off most of our merely mental radar sets by around the middle of the following week, but most of it is still there, and if you want to remember and refer back...

  95. James Cameron -'It would be 'cool' losing to Bigelow'

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Mar 2010 | 11:27 am MST

    The director, who was married to Bigelow for two years, is up for the Academy Award against top rivals including Bigelow for her Iraq-set war movie The Hurt Locker.



  96. Novels about the European Union and current affairs

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Mar 2010 | 10:59 am MST

    My old friend, Andrew Ian Dodge, now residing in the chilly US northeastern state of Maine, has a book out, And Glory, which is set in a near future where the EU superstate is in full power (not that far off, then, Ed). He mashes up a a bit of political speculation, SciFi and good rollocking drama to make an interesting read. (As if my reading list was not long enough, aaagrrrh). I have been...

  97. Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America

    → The TexasFred Blog | 7 Mar 2010 | 10:21 am MST

    Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America CAIRO (AP) – Al-Qaida’s American-born spokesman on Sunday called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood. In a 25-minute video posted on militant Web sites, Adam Gadahn described Maj. Nidal Hasan as a [...]

  98. The 'Tory Secret Weapon' is... Ken Clarke?

    → Samizdata.net | 7 Mar 2010 | 8:57 am MST

    Oh Jesus wept, just put the leadership of the Tory party out of our misery and get it over with. The 'secret weapon' of the Tory Party is a pro-Euro corporatist whose ability to alienate actual conservatives has been proven every time the bastard has rolled out over the last couple decades. The Tory party is facing a widely detested and demonstrably failed government and the fact they are not forty points ahead in the...

  99. Panasonic Unveils Two New G-Micro System Cameras

    → Top Stories in the Blogosphere | 7 Mar 2010 | 7:26 am MST

    Panasonic has announced the launch of two new cameras in its revolutionary G-Micro series of Micro Four Thirds mirrorless system cameras, as well as three new lenses for the system.



  100. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 6 Mar 2010 | 4:28 pm MST

    The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner...

  101. Mainstreaming Extremism in East London

    → Noblesse Oblige | 6 Mar 2010 | 7:58 am MST

    An ongoing series….

  102. Pentagon gunman sought ‘truth’ about 9/11

    → The TexasFred Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 11:41 am MST

    Pentagon gunman sought ‘truth’ about 9/11 Internet postings linked to the suspected gunman in a Pentagon subway shooting suggest long-held frustration with the government’s reach into the private life of Americans. The suspect, John Patrick Bedell, 36, died after exchanging gunfire with two police officers. He spent weeks driving to the Capital area from the [...]

  103. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 5 Mar 2010 | 4:16 am MST

    "By God, The Guardian is a loathsome newspaper; a local north London morning daily for Stalinist metro libtards, perpetually arrogant, snobbish, self-righteous, humourless, dull, relentlessly middle class, cowardly and cheap." - Rod Liddle As regulars know, I am not Mr Liddle's greatest fan but when he is on form, he really hits it out of the park, as they say in baseball. The whole piece is an exhilerating piece of invective, all the more delicious...

  104. PBS host Smiley calls meeting to urge black agenda

    → The TexasFred Blog | 4 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am MST

    PBS host Smiley calls meeting to urge black agenda Two months after ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, Tavis Smiley is gathering African-American advocates to press the case for a “black agenda.” The decision was motivated by what Smiley called recent statements from some black leaders downplaying the need for President Barack Obama [...]

  105. My alternative right is more alternative than your alternative right

    → Reflecting Light | 4 Mar 2010 | 7:11 am MST

    Alternative Right, which has been in business now for four days, is already a 7.5 on the conservative Richter scale. Two bloggers on my "Gold Standard" list have enthusiastically registered their feelings: hopeful (Dennis Mangan, here and here) and contra (Lawrence Auster, here).I've checked out Alternative Right — not read everything posted there, but enough to get an impression of what it's on

  106. The Mainstreaming of Extremism on the Right

    → Noblesse Oblige | 4 Mar 2010 | 6:55 am MST

    The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok details the rise in militia, patriot, and extremist groups last year. The factor that he misses in this video however is not the rise of these groups, but rather their wider acceptance. Mainstream center right and even right-right politicians of years past would never have spoken at a [...]

  107. I think I will give this show a miss

    → Samizdata.net | 4 Mar 2010 | 4:42 am MST

    Rob Fisher, another occasional commenter at our threads who has his own blog, has this to say about a new TV show about border security guards (yes, that's right). On the basis of his comment, I think I will be watching the rest of Mad Men instead....

  108. Energy Supply and the Individual States

    → Gregor.us | 3 Mar 2010 | 9:55 pm MST

    The February issue of Gregor.us Monthly, Energy Supply and the Individual States, has now been published. The 22 page report is a more data-filled version of the thematic treatment I’ve given to this issue the past month, here at Gregor.us. While many news organizations and investment houses have started to address more concertedly the financial [...]

  109. Loss of nerve: the Strathclyde Fire Brigade preferred not to rescue Alison Hume

    → Samizdata.net | 3 Mar 2010 | 5:06 pm MST

    Of course, when I say that that is what Strathclyde Fire and Rescue ("making our communities safe places to live work and visit") preferred, I do acknowledge it cannot have been pleasant to sit around listening to her desperate cries for the last six hours of her life while rescue equipment that could have brought her out from the mine shaft into which she had fallen stood inactive. But it was that or disregard a...

  110. Brown went wilde in government

    → Samizdata.net | 3 Mar 2010 | 3:53 pm MST

    Gordon Brown must have read Oscar Wilde when he was studying as he has spent his entire career implementng one of his aphorisms in government: It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes For this reason, he will be remembered for a very long time...

  111. Cotton Balls Left At Black Culture Center

    → The TexasFred Blog | 3 Mar 2010 | 12:51 pm MST

    Cotton Balls Left At Black Culture Center COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri police are investigating after someone scattered cotton balls outside the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on the Columbia campus. Students and staff discovered the cotton balls littering the grass and sidewalk outside the building Friday. Witnesses told campus police that two people were seen running [...]

  112. Gov. Perry defeats Hutchison in Texas GOP primary

    → The TexasFred Blog | 3 Mar 2010 | 8:41 am MST

    Gov. Perry defeats Hutchison in Texas GOP primary AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry tapped into a rising wave of anti-Washington ire and rode it to an easy Republican primary win over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, once seen as the candidate who could block his march toward four more years in the state’s [...]

  113. Samizdata quote of the day

    → Samizdata.net | 3 Mar 2010 | 8:17 am MST

    Personally, I’d like to see some Congressmen forced to testify before a panel of car dealers, about the budget deficit’s Sudden Acceleration Problem. - Instapundit reflects on the travails of Toyota....

  114. Michael Jennings talks about the global reach of the English Premier League

    → Samizdata.net | 3 Mar 2010 | 6:25 am MST

    Last night I listened to this podcast, in which Patrick Crozier interviews our own Michael Jennings, globetrotter extraordinaire, about how the English Premier League (i.e. soccer) is followed with a passion in faraway countries of which most English people know very little, and of which many English soccer fans would be rather scornful, if they gave them any thought. Points made (recycling (and expanding upon) Patrick's blog posting on it): that the Premier League is...

  115. Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics

    → The TexasFred Blog | 2 Mar 2010 | 9:55 am MST

    Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics A minor-league pitcher in his younger days, Richard Armbruster kept playing baseball recreationally into his 70s, until his right hip started bothering him. Last February he went to a St. Louis hospital for what was to be a routine hip replacement. By late March, Mr. Armbruster, then 78, [...]

  116. Government obesity is a national problem

    → Reflecting Light | 2 Mar 2010 | 9:15 am MST

    Fifty-six percent of Americans polled last week said that "the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens." An immediate threat.According to an archaic document — the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution — recovered from the ruins of Washington, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the

  117. AIG sells Asian unit in bid to pay back bailout

    → The TexasFred Blog | 1 Mar 2010 | 12:26 pm MST

    AIG sells Asian unit in bid to pay back bailout LONDON – British insurer Prudential PLC said Monday it will buy the Asian unit of bailed out American International Group Inc. in a deal worth $35.5 billion that will allow AIG to pay back some of the money it owes U.S. taxpayers. AIG, which was [...]

  118. Hutchison: Perry’s tactics tough on her campaign

    → The TexasFred Blog | 28 Feb 2010 | 10:33 am MST

    Hutchison: Perry’s tactics tough on her campaign JUSTIN, Texas — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison offered what appeared to be her first acknowledgment that Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry has done some damage to her bid to unseat him by successfully casting her as a Washington insider. Trailing in the polls with less than a week [...]

  119. What we Know About Climate Change

    → Noblesse Oblige | 28 Feb 2010 | 9:06 am MST

    A new video from Peter Sinclair who outlines some of the very basic and elementary facts and proofs of man made global warming, and how they are supported. I’ve known about man made global warming since the 1980’s, when I used to point it out as a good reason for increasing production of nuclear energy to [...]

  120. More junk archaeology from the U.K.

    → Reflecting Light | 28 Feb 2010 | 8:11 am MST

    Wall painting from the York social register,Aprilis XVI, CCCXL Archaeologists today sound more and more like the politically minded scientists spouting hysteria about man-made global warming. I have complained about their poorly founded announcements before -- see here and here. Besides cases of over-enthusiasm about ambiguous evidence and headline chasing, we now have archaeologists who can be

  121. Dog Park Day

    → Noblesse Oblige | 27 Feb 2010 | 9:52 am MST

    A day at the dog park with Kasey and Chewey

  122. The Sandpit: Tilty and Shifty Without the Rented Lens

    → Noblesse Oblige | 27 Feb 2010 | 8:07 am MST

    No matter what the fellow at True Slant says you have to admire The Sandpit from the sheer amount of labor and love that went into it. Just because Bill likes the scenery chewing Snowstorm as an actor better than both Night and Day doesn’t mean that Coney Island is really better. I mean some [...]

  123. San Diego students storm offices after noose found

    → The TexasFred Blog | 27 Feb 2010 | 4:39 am MST

    San Diego students storm offices after noose found SAN DIEGO (AP) – Anger boiled over on the University of California San Diego campus Friday, where students took over the chancellor’s office for several hours to protest the hanging of a noose in a campus library. Students wearing red handkerchiefs over their faces blocked the doors [...]

  124. M O O N Spells Moon

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 7:39 pm MST

    Tonight’s moon – these moon photos I post are pretty large, so when you click on the thumbnail to blow it up, try ctrl and the plus key together a few times to see the real definition.

  125. Our Pale Blue Dot

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 5:09 pm MST

    This is our pale blue dot — ours but for a moment in vast cosmic time.

  126. True Fiscal Conservatives Always Charge Their Groceries to State Party Credit Cards…

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 3:19 pm MST

    In the mounting brouhaha over Marco Rubio’s personal expenses being charged to GOP credit cards Hot air has been fast to leap to the defense; after all the darling of the CPAC convention is a true fiscal conservative in the “Duke” Randall Cunningham and J.D. Hayworth mold… See TNR for more: Florida Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio [...]

  127. The Greater Icepaw Range

    → Noblesse Oblige | 26 Feb 2010 | 11:04 am MST

    Scientists believe that the strange formations of the Icepaw range that resemble a demonic lion’s face or J.D. Hayworth talking about birth certificates were actually created by a large meteor shower. In this aerial photo you can see the formations completely. Local Legend has it that the Spirit of Kasey created them as she chased [...]

  128. A Warming World

    → Noblesse Oblige | 25 Feb 2010 | 2:56 pm MST

    Here’s a video from NASA data that details some of the factors behind AGW. For much more information go to Nasa’s Warming World page.

  129. Obama to U.S.: Don't be defensive

    → Reflecting Light | 25 Feb 2010 | 8:12 am MST

    National defense? He don't need to show you no stinkin' national defense.Your blogger is convinced that if the Bower-in-Chief thought he could pull it off, he would replace all our armed forces with ACORN goons. We've grown accustomed to his nominees and appointees who seem to have been hand picked for inability and being contrary to their supposed missions. Now he wants a Coast Guard commander

  130. Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Covers Up Statutory Rape

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 24 Feb 2010 | 10:39 am MST

    Update (2/25): Yesterday I posted a video Live Action recorded in June 2008, which showed a Wisconsin Planned Parenthood worker telling who she believes is an underage pregnant teen not to reveal that her boyfriend is an adult. Abortion mill workers in Wisconsin must report statutory rape. The story appeared in the local media earlier [...]

  131. Transition Back to Coal

    → Gregor.us | 23 Feb 2010 | 9:55 pm MST

    In the January issue of  Gregor.us Monthly, published 31 January and titled Transition Back to Coal, I looked at 200 years of global coal use and I posed the following question: The United States is the second largest consumer of coal in the world. Sitting just behind China, but ahead of India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, [...]

  132. 30-Year-Old Dead Frozen Babies in West Philly

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 23 Feb 2010 | 9:05 am MST

    If you had your baby killed around 1980 in West Philadelphia, heads up. Your dead baby may be among the frozen “late-term” fetuses found at an abortion mill. (Source) Through the fire, indeed.

  133. Change you can't refuse

    → Reflecting Light | 23 Feb 2010 | 6:42 am MST

    King Barack (Big JuJu) Obama's messianic obsession with making the government the gatekeeper of your health care marks him as the most dangerous president the United States has had in our lifetimes, and possibly ever. It's not just that "health care reform" — a nebulous, ever-shifting plan that possibly no senator or congressman has read in its entirety — is designed to ultimately place every

  134. Kudos to Mark Levin and Bill Bennett

    → Noblesse Oblige | 22 Feb 2010 | 1:14 pm MST

    Kudos are due Mark Levin for calling out the Bircher Co-Sponsorship at CPAC, and refusing to speak there because of it. Mark and I probably don’t see eye to eye on some things (Discovery Institute issues likely) but you have to point out when someone’s doing something right. Of course we also have to point out [...]

  135. New Credit Card Rules Bound to Shock Some

    → Noblesse Oblige | 22 Feb 2010 | 9:20 am MST

    New reforms on Credit Cards go into effect today – it’s a good idea to check on changes to your cards: More here: King 5 News That helps explain why the industry reacted so aggressively to the legislation. Among the moves it made: — Resurrected annual fees. Annual fees, common until about 10 years ago, have made a comeback. [...]

  136. Icy Tree

    → Noblesse Oblige | 22 Feb 2010 | 8:41 am MST

    Yesterday it alternated between rain, snow, and sleet, the trees were coated with Ice for awhile. Of course Icy Trees are best viewed in late afternoon sunlight…

  137. The New World Disorder

    → Reflecting Light | 22 Feb 2010 | 7:13 am MST

    Attention must be paid, but once again your blogger is on the installment plan.Argentina to nationalize pension funds (Tip of the lid: Powerline.)The United States is not Argentina. We have no history (yet) of dictatorship, nor even under Chicago Rules have we reached Argentine levels of corruption. That should not breed complacency, however. For all its problems, Argentina is, or was, a

  138. Bill Gates on Energy, Climate and Poverty

    → Noblesse Oblige | 21 Feb 2010 | 3:59 pm MST

    Very important talk here, pretty much what I’ve been saying when I’ve taken the time to bash Gore and his anti-nuclear crowd in We. It’s crucial that we create plentiful cheap energy – it’s also crucial that it be carbon free and safe. Bill thinks he knows a way.

  139. Obama on Investing in Nuclear Energy

    → Noblesse Oblige | 21 Feb 2010 | 3:48 pm MST

    “We can’t keep on being mired in the same old stale arguments between the left and the right.” This is all too true – we have to have cheap clean safe energy in plenty if we are to cope with the problems of our future.

  140. Portrait of Price vs Non-Opec Supply

    → Gregor.us | 19 Feb 2010 | 2:10 am MST

    Non-OPEC crude oil supply peaked six years ago in 2004, at a sustained annual average of 42.068 mbpd (million barrels per day). Supply then fell every year thereafter through 2008, before making a small recovery in 2009. What’s telling, of course, is that supply peaked in a year when the price of oil averaged only [...]

  141. Duke False Rape Accuser Charged With Attempted Murder

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 18 Feb 2010 | 6:34 am MST

    I deleted the text of this post (although the archived version is somewhere out there), something I rarely do. I don’t want to write about this woman anymore. I said what I wanted to say about her and the case in the Duke “Rape” Case archives.

  142. Gregor.us in the Media

    → Gregor.us | 17 Feb 2010 | 10:08 pm MST

    It’s been a good week for media coverage as www.gregor.us managed to generate both print and television interest, in several important energy issues. ABC News.com published a good piece yesterday on the financial problems of large US states such as California, Michigan and Florida, and in my conversation with journalist Rich Blake, we discussed at [...]

  143. Rocky Mountain Surplus

    → Gregor.us | 17 Feb 2010 | 9:02 am MST

    In Seven States of Energy Debt I added an energy-twist to the current comparisons between fiscally troubled European countries like Greece and Portugal, and their counterparts in the US such as California, Illinois, and Florida. In addition to high rates of unemployment, a number of US states are also significant energy importers or worse have [...]

  144. Nervous about "service"

    → Reflecting Light | 16 Feb 2010 | 1:36 pm MST

    Michelle Obama urged her young audience at something called the Florida Campus Compact Awards Gala at something called the Freedom Tower — such grandiloquent names usually promise trouble — to dedicate their lives to "service." (Tip of the hat to American Thinker.)Mme. Obama had a lot to say about being committed to "service-mindedness."But first, she said this: "And I also want to thank someone

  145. Anti-Cables

    → Reflecting Light | 14 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am MST

    Life goes on. We Americans live in a country that, by rights, should be holding out a tin cup to reduce our deficit, but instead spends like there's no tomorrow (does somebody know something?); an elocutionary doof of a president insists on force feeding the populace with "change" the majority doesn't want; as if our schools haven't been dumbed down enough, one state has proposed to stop teaching

  146. Odds and sods

    → Reflecting Light | 11 Feb 2010 | 5:42 am MST

    I normally devote each posting to one topic. But with two feet of snow surrounding Reflecting Light world headquarters and beginning the second week of being unable to get any farther than the curb, your blogger is feeling a fraction scattered. So scattered is what this posting will be.Arizona quits Western climate endeavor.Arizona will no longer participate in a groundbreaking attempt to limit

  147. Birmingham Planned Parenthood on Probation

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 10 Feb 2010 | 1:41 pm MST

    As part of her undercover stings at Planned Parenthood offices, Lila Rose of Live Action recorded employees (including a “doctor”) lying about fetal development and advising the “underage” Lila Rose to lie about her adult “boyfriend’s” age. One of the clinics, Birmingham Planned Parenthood, has been put on probation for killing the unborn babies of minors [...]

  148. Riding Los Angeles

    → Gregor.us | 9 Feb 2010 | 9:48 pm MST

    Apparently a very robust cycling culture has blossomed in the past few years in my old city of Los Angeles. This is great to see, even from a distance. I used to ride in the Santa Monica Mountains–nearer to Los Angeles in the Hollywood Hills and also out farther near Topanga. I also rode the [...]

  149. Good on yer, mates!

    → Reflecting Light | 9 Feb 2010 | 5:54 am MST

    What a surprise from Australia, which I thought was seriously listing to port.CANBERRA: Australia tightened its migration rules Monday in favor of English speakers and professionals, saying the country has been attracting too many hairdressers and cooks and too few doctors and engineers.My eyes must have bulged like balloons when I read that. Common sense on immigration, as a government policy

  150. The money is the message

    → Reflecting Light | 7 Feb 2010 | 2:48 pm MST

    "U.S. aid cutback plan sends the wrong message," says the headline in the Miami Herald.Columnist Andres Oppenheimer says:If President Barack Obama's foreign aid budget request for 2011 is a reflection of his priorities in world affairs, it looks like the president is saying "adios'' to Latin America. The administration's foreign aid request to Congress for next year calls for a 13 percent

  151. Looking out my front door

    → Reflecting Light | 6 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am MST

    Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band. Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon? Doo, doo doo. Wond'rous apparition provided by magician.Doo, doo, doo, Looking out my back door.-- Creedence Clearwater Revival"Looking Out My Back Door"This was the view from my front door, actually, about three hours ago. There's been considerable accumulation since then, and the sky is still dumping

  152. Pro-Abort WashPost Columnist On Tim Tebow’s Side

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 5 Feb 2010 | 12:29 pm MST

    Update: A second Tim Tebow/Focus on the Family ad will air before the game starts. So ad #2 will air before the big game, and ad #1 will air during. *** I know we pro-lifers keep talking and talking and blogging and writing about Tim Tebow. We can’t help it!!! A high-profile, abstinent young Christian is set to [...]

  153. Seven States of Energy Debt

    → Gregor.us | 5 Feb 2010 | 10:40 am MST

    Out here on Cottage Grove it matters. The galloping Wind balks at its shadow. The carriages Are drawn forward under a sky of fumed oak. This is America calling: The mirroring of state to state, Of voice to voice on the wires, The force of colloquial greetings like golden Pollen sinking on the afternoon breeze. In service stairs the sweet corruption thrives; The page [...]

  154. Tim Tebow Prays at National Prayer Breakfast

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 4 Feb 2010 | 9:59 am MST

    Check out this 22-year-old giving the closing prayer at today’s National Prayer Breakfast: When I was his age, I was a fornicating, unambitious drunk (sounds really bad when I put it that way; wait a second…it was!) who wouldn’t have spoken about anything in front of anybody, no matter how much you paid me. What [...]

  155. The Geert Wilders trial: triumph or tragedy

    → Reflecting Light | 3 Feb 2010 | 2:04 pm MST

    When Winston Churchill wrote his account of World War II, he titled it Triumph and Tragedy.Tragedy? The Allies had won a complete, absolute victory. The cost in lives was horrifying, of course, but the aim had been achieved: unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. But Churchill had more geopolitical savvy than his allies. He knew that, by the decisions forced on him -- principally by the

  156. A Podcast of Possible Energy Futures

    → Gregor.us | 2 Feb 2010 | 3:15 pm MST

    Eric Garland of Competitive Futures in Washington, DC advises corporations and helps them develop a strategy for the longer term view. He is also an experienced broadcaster and interviewer. And in this hour-long podcast recorded this week, Eric manages to extract from me a number of my own calls on our energy future. I also [...]

  157. Bow wow wow

    → Reflecting Light | 1 Feb 2010 | 1:44 pm MST

    Bend it like Barack.No, no, Barack! This is an American you're bowing to! Maybe her name, Pam Iorio, confused you into thinking she was a foreign potentate. You really must get a grip on this protocol thing, man. Repeat after me: Saudi prince = 120 degrees head-down attitude. Kenyan king = 90 degrees. Iranian president = 75 degrees. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed = go easy with this one; you know the

  158. NYT: Pro-Aborts on ‘Wrong Track’ on Tim Tebow Ad

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 1 Feb 2010 | 10:37 am MST

    Update: The pro-life message is wonderful, but I’m hoping the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad somehow smuggles in the Gospel. CBS wouldn’t allow it, of course, but perhaps some of his testimony comes through. *** Great day in the morning! I can hardly believe my eyes. The New York Times calls pro-abortion groups’ shrieking about a pro-life [...]

  159. Used Rainbows

    → Gregor.us | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:57 pm MST

    There’s a picture floating around on the internet but I’m not going to show it to you. It depicts several rows of half-buried automobile tires, off in a distance behind a chain-link fence. A dusting of snow covers the ground. A trash-heap of sorts or perhaps a small hill just behind. The sky? A pale [...]

  160. Republicans in Hollywood

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 27 Jan 2010 | 6:29 am MST

    I rarely blog about celebrities because it seems so, you know, shallow. I make an exception for right-leaning celebrities. In 2008, I put up a post about Republican-registered Hollywood folks like Kelsey Grammer, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, Jon Voight, Pat Sajak, Angie Harmon and her husband Jason Sehorn, former cornerback for the New York Giants, and [...]

  161. Tim Tebow Lives

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 26 Jan 2010 | 6:33 am MST

    Update: Captain Ed says: “Expect to see this kind of hysterical criticism reach a crescendo when the ad airs, and then a quick deflation afterward. It’s just another form of advertising, after all, but instead of a new beer or bar of soap, it advertises faith in a personal and indisputable manner. Personal witness [...]

  162. The Book of Eli: Initial Impressions (Spoilers)

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 24 Jan 2010 | 12:11 pm MST

    I wrote this yesterday: Spoiler Warning When I first heard about “The Book of Eli,” my first impression was “must-see.” Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman in the same movie? I’m there. I avoided spoilers, but I remember seeing a headline that the movie was “friendly” to Christians and one calling it offensive or insulting to Christians. I was [...]

  163. Blogs for Life

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 22 Jan 2010 | 6:24 am MST

    Thirty-seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to privacy to kill their unborn babies. Since then, about 45 million unborn babies have been ripped apart and sucked down sinks, poisoned in utero, etc. That’s called progress. Watch the Blogs for Life Conference, sponsored by the Family Research Council, starting [...]

  164. Brit Hume on the Name of Jesus Christ

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 7 Jan 2010 | 7:49 am MST

    When was the last time you heard a secularist react to the name of Allah the way he reacts to the name of Jesus Christ? “You speak the name Jesus Christ…and all hell breaks loose…it has always been thus. It is explosive. And I didn’t even say the name in that way. I simply spoke of [...]

  165. Conceived in Rape

    → La Shawn Barber's Corner | 4 Jan 2010 | 10:26 am MST

    Unlike some who call themselves pro-life, I believe an unborn baby should live even if conceived in rape or incest. That’s just the kind of extremist I am. Carrying a baby conceived in a brutal, illegal, immoral, or ill-advised act has got to be tough, whether you want him or not. But this is where [...]

  166. McCain's GOP support showing more cracks

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 12:28 pm MDT

    Republican unity behind presidential nominee John McCain is fracturing and the infighting likely presages a battle for the GOP's soul should he lose the general election next week.

  167. Palin calls for break from Bush energy policy

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 12:24 pm MDT

    Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is calling for a "clean break" from the Bush administration's energy policies, which she says relied too much on importing foreign oil.

  168. Palin manages to govern Alaska from afar

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 11:49 am MDT

    A state that is remote from the U.S. mainland is essentially being run by remote control.

  169. Now on TV, Obama the inescapable

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 10:27 am MDT

    Barack Obama will be a one-man television blitz on Wednesday, saturating prime-time with a 30-minute ad and popping up on the buzzy late-night TV scene.

  170. Palin to fly home to Alaska to vote in election

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 9:52 am MDT

    Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin plans to fly back to her home in Alaska to vote in next week's election.

  171. AP EXCLUSIVE: Obama ahead or tied in 8 key states

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 8:31 am MDT

    Barack Obama, gunning for a national landslide, now leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is essentially tied with John McCain in two other Republican red states, according to new AP-GfK battleground polling.

  172. McCain links economy and national security

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 8:23 am MDT

    Republican John McCain, scrambling after one of the biggest battlegrounds of the presidential election, is touting his history on national security and trying to link the issue of the country's safety to the financial meltdown.

  173. Election sure to change face of Senate

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 5:20 am MDT

    One certainty of next Tuesday's ballot will be the elevation of the first sitting senator to the White House since John F. Kennedy in 1961. It also ensures that the Senate is going to see another new face next year in addition to those who win election next week.

  174. Democrat could win House seat once Cheney's

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 5:19 am MDT

    In a conservative town in one of the country's most conservative states, the Democrat running for Vice President Dick Cheney's old House seat isn't having a hard time finding supporters.

  175. Next president faces unknowns on Iraq

    → Top Political Headlines | 29 Oct 2008 | 5:16 am MDT

    When they talk about Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama and John McCain speak with the certainty of men who know what they believe and what they plan to do. Good luck on that: Reality is sure to tangle and vastly complicate the next president's job no matter who wins.



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