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When is news not news?

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Bookworm

When is news not news? When it's rumor and propaganda — and this remains true even if every major news outlet prints it. I'm sure you haven't forgotten the New York Times' gruesome headline: "30 beheaded bodies found; Iraqi death squads blamed." The first paragraph repeated this point, and made

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Iraq, Media matters
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Yeah, it’s me

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Bookworm

Just to let you know, it's still me.  I finally got the look I want, with a three column template and smaller font.  Feedback is, as always, welcome. FacebookTweet

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Bits and Pieces
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Limiting entitlements

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Bookworm

The whole Cynthia McKinney kerfuffle is a distillation of entitlement run amok.  McKinney, who belongs to a "protected" group (several, actually, since she's black, female and anti-Semitic), feels that she is entitled to treatment denied others:  she is entitled to refuse to wear her Congressional badge, which alerts the Capitol

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Culture, Multiculturalism, Political correctness, Silly Stuff
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A moment in time

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Bookworm

I always find things like this fascinating: On Wednesday of [this] week: at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. I won't stay up for it, but I'll still think it's pretty cool that I was there at that

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Sex education

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Bookworm

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs (see here), a book about how modern feminism has imposed on girls and women a view of sex and sexuality that is utterly devoid of self-respect and love. It was a profoundly depressing book. What's stayed

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Sex
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Proud to be an American

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Don Quixote

DQ again. I'm a NASCAR fan, but I normally TiVo the races and skip the long opening ceremonies. Today, there was nothing much else on, so I watched the race and the ceremonies live. I was struck by the pure pride in America that infused those ceremonies. It's sad that

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Fighting war to win

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Bookworm

I love Mark Steyn.  If you don't have time to read his whole column (and who wouldn't have a few minutes for such a treat?), at least get a little fix here: [M]y point is there's no mass anti-war movement. Some commentators claimed to be puzzled by the low turnout

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Anti-war, Iraq
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Let’s talk body count

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Don Quixote

Just a short note from DQ. I saw a headline the other day which informed me that 14 people had died in a rebel attack in Afganistan. Sounds like a really successful attack until you read the article, which reveals that 12 of the 14 were the rebels themselves. Now,

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Media matters
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I don’t think these people are ready to vote

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Bookworm

There's a move afoot to extend the voting age downwards to young children (their votes would get counted on a fractional basis).  As a parent who interacts a lot with young children, I think this is stunningly stupid.  As more evidence in the stunningly stupid category, I offer the beginning

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Silly Stuff
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One of life’s blessings

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Bookworm

I glanced out my office window, looked over the hills and the water, and saw glowing in the sky a perfect rainbow.  What a lovely gift.  Since it's been raining ridiculous amounts in my neck of the woods, one hopes that the rainbow is a sign of a remembered promise:

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Uplifting stories
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I see a melting pot, they see a stolen dish

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Bookworm

Gail alerted me to the Mexica-Movement's proud photo-montage about the March in L.A. I think it's a great site, since it really gives you an idea about the marchers' goals and belief system. I wonder if, once you get insight into these things, you'll be for or against firmer border

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Leadership in action

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Bookworm

Patrick alerts me to Ace's take on the new, improved Democratic plan: An amazing new national security plan has two key provisions: 1) "Responsibly redepolying" US troops from Iraq (i.e., bugging out as soon as we can get the transport ships and planes in); and 2) "eliminating" Osama bin Ladin.

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The child is the father of the nation

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Bookworm

Do you have a strong stomach? If you do not, definitely avoid this website, which collects information and photographs about the atrocities routinely committed against women, children and gays across the Muslim world. Here, you can see what it looks like when a person has been flogged hundreds of times

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Arabs, Islam
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African-American political leaders failing African-Americans

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Bookworm

I'm generally a Jonah Goldberg fan, but his column today really adds to my respect for the man.  In it, he takes on black leaders in Congress, who pursue far Left policies that are often inconsistent with beliefs held by many black Americans, and that advance social and economic policies

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African-Americans
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Toot, toot!

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Bookworm

That sound you hear in the title of this post is me blowing my own horn. I've got another article published in American Thinker, which is going to have to take the place of blogging this morning. It's about morality and how we teach it to our children in the

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Bits and Pieces
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