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April 28, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Lifestyles of the rich and famous - and connected
- By Michael M. Bates
Teddy Kennedy’s brother-in-law pleaded guilty to fraud charges in federal court last week. Moreover, it appears as though the man is also a confidential informant in a case against a former Hillary Clinton aide.
This story has gotten little play in the media, which is too busy cranking out articles and impassioned editorials about Tom DeLay to notice much else. You’d think that when a major Democrat player who’s worked in the Clinton, Gore and Kerry campaigns begins to sing like a birdie for the Feds, it would be newsworthy. You’d be wrong.
Kennedy’s brother-in-law, Raymond Reggie, is the son of a multimillionaire. Kennedy’s wife, Victoria Reggie, is the daughter of a multimillionaire. Their father is a Louisiana judge, a close personal friend of governors and other power brokers, and ran John F. Kennedy’s successful 1960 campaign in the Pelican State.
Being so politically wired has its perks. The judge managed to send his six children to Tulane University for a combined 27 years. And the really nice part for his honor is that it didn’t cost him anywhere near what an unconnected parent would have paid……………
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April 28, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Radical Professors Impose Idiosyncratic Bibliographic Procurement Proclivities Upon Students
- By Frederick Meekins
One of the accepted realities of college life is that students often have to shell out a significant wad of cash on nearly useless textbooks. This unpleasant reality is tempered by the hope that, if all goes well, students can sell the texts back to the campus bookstore for a pittance at the end of the semester.
However, a number of professors at the University of Maryland have disrupted what little market beauty remains in this transaction by erecting additional artificial barriers to free exchange by imposing their economic sensibilities onto where assigned texts can be acquired instead of leaving the decision up to the student.
At the University, students are usually able to purchase books at the Book Center conveniently located in the Student Union at the center of campus or at the Maryland Book Exchange prominently located among the businesses surrounding the college. Yet another establishment from which books can be procured is Vertigo Books.
Unlike the Book Center or Exchange, Vertigo is a small independent store. Thus, since it is metaphorically thumbing its nose at big business, according to the February 7, 2005 edition of the Diamondback, a number of liberal arts professors favor it over the competition by manipulating the book selection process so that the texts for their specific classes are only available at Vertigo………..
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Senators As Rebels Without A Clue
- By Warner Todd Huston
Senator Patty Murray (D, Washington State) has written an Opinion editorial about the current battle over President Bush’s judicial nominations that proves that giants no longer wander the hallowed halls of the US Senate. This wondrous piece of fiction appeared in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Friday, April 22nd. It’s a good thing it is titled “opinion” by the newspaper because opinion is all it is as no facts are contained within.
After reading Senator Murray’s work, one wonders if a knowledge of history has officially been deemed unnecessary - nay, even anathema - for a United States Senator because nearly every aspect of her editorial is just plain wrong on historical fact……
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April 27, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Young Christians Rising
- By Hans Zeiger
Generation X Catholics were asked in their teenage days what it was that the church had failed to give them. The most frequent response was that the church had not challenged teens with “a high and heroic ideal.” Such a challenge, as we’ve been reminded these past few weeks, was made with astounding success by the late pope. The Millennial Generation, born in the days of Reagan and John Paul II, is emerging into the world with a conservatism unexpected and nervously opposed by the liberal elite of American culture. But liberalism cannot erase the moral demand it has provoked.
“In an age of relativism,” writes Peter Kreeft, “orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left.” Remarkably, Christian orthodoxy is spreading rapidly amongst young Americans; we can hope that a great awakening of the spiritual life of the nation is imminent………
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April 27, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Contemplations on Socialism
- By Rudy Takala
The concoctions of socialism have indeed made life on this earth a tumultuous one. Socialism today continues to torment millions, simply because socialists refuse to acknowledge the failure of their religion. Socialism didn’t create heaven on earth in the past, they say, because the wrong people were in power. They weren’t in power. As centuries-old debates are waged over such issues as Social Security, and I find myself personally privileged to witness the modern grotesqueries of education, an array of thoughts have come to mind.
Socialist dogma seems to be tending away from its traditional promise of heaven on earth these days. It’s no longer about creating a better standard of living, it’s simply about making sure no one progresses too far ahead of anyone else. Social Security, for example, isn’t about economic efficiency or prudence, nor is it about caring for the old. As Benjamin R. Barber wrote in defense of Social Security for the Los Angeles Times on January 27th, “Privatization - whether of education, housing or Social Security - makes us less of a public. It diminishes the republic - the res publica, or public things that define our commonweal. It turns the common ‘we’ into a collection of private ‘me’s.’”………
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April 27, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Bush Wants To Blow Up The Sun
- By Warner Todd Huston
You know the twice annually observed tradition of the time switch for Daylight Savings time, I am sure. “Spring ahead and Fall back”, goes the catch phrase. We all get so excited that our Summer evenings are going to be longer and moan when we end up with too long, dark mornings in the Winter. But it is something we have become used to. DST has become an American fixture.
Now here comes the Administration attempting to change it all. Why, oh why can’t they just leave things well enough alone? What are they trying to do to us by adding two months to the Daylight Savings Time schedule?
Of course, their reasons are quite beguiling and that is why it is so evil. They claim that they mean to save energy with this idea. The new energy bill claims that if our nights are shorter we will use less energy to light our homes and businesses so they want to extend Daylight Savings by another two months. Save energy. Can you believe it?
Oh, sure that seems to make sense, all right. But here is the dark secret that they are NOT telling you. Bush will cause the Sun to explode thousands of years earlier! That’s right. Not only is he trying to create global warming by torpedoing the Kyoto protocols. Not only has he announced plans to waste money to create a shield of missile launchers to save us against attack (and Canada too, whether they like it or not). Not only has he been so evil as to bring peace to so many spots of the world. Now he has launched a campaign to blow up the sun. I mean it just has to be, because it certainly couldn’t be that Bush really wants to save energy.
Dastardly, isn’t he?
Don’t act all shocked. You know how this works, don’t you? Why, if we are changing it so that we Americans have longer days and more sunlight, that means Bush is forcing the sun to work harder for the USA.
Isn’t it just typical that this evil Bush is causing the USA to use up more of the sun than any other nation? The gall of him. Why should we lowly Americans get more out of the sun than any other country? What right do we have to use more of the sun than any other nation?
So, there we go. Bush is using up the sun which we all know would cause the sun to use up its precious energy much faster and then it will explode into a world killing nova. QED. Ipso Facto. I’m so sure. Totally.
Man. Saving the economy. Saving the country from attack. Saving energy. It just makes you wonder if Bush’s evil knows no end?
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April 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
The Spectacles Of Feminism
- By Rudy Takala
Violence against women is plaguing the United States today. According to liberals, pornography and public vulgarity appear to be the answer. I will forewarn readers that the following is a discussion of feminists and liberals, some of whom are adolescents attending public high schools. As such, parts of the discussion are, to use a liberal buzzword, “inappropriate.”
Carrie Rethlefsen attends Winona High School in Minnesota. She recently watched the play, “The Vagina Monologues.” Its proponents allege that the play raises awareness to violence against women. After watching the play, Carrie Rethlefsen and a friend wore “I [heart] My Vagina” buttons to school. School administrators have called the pins “inappropriate” and threatened expulsion.
Unfortunately, Carrie Rethlefsen “can’t really find out what is inappropriate about it.” She doesn’t “think banning things like this is appropriate.” She said the buttons raise awareness to women’s issues, whatever those may be………
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April 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
A Review Of Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract With America
- By Frederick Meekins
Over a decade has elapsed since The Contract With America catapulted Newt Gingrich to the forefront of American political discussion and the Republican Party into control of both houses of Congress. No longer confined by the restraints of public office, the former Speaker of the House now seeks to update and expand on this set of ideas in Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract With America.
Unlike the original Contract With America which dealt primarily with political and legislative issues, Winning The Future applies the outlook inspiring the book’s antecedent to a wider array of social and cultural concerns. Reflective of the personality of the author of both documents, Winning The Future is an eclectic synthesis of conservative commonsense, futuristic policy blather, and a reluctance to accept certain shortcomings inherent to human nature.
Winning The Future does a suburb job in examining the religious foundations of the United States. Gingrich uses his skill as an historian to trace recognition of this heritage from the Founding Fathers, through Abraham Lincoln, up to contemporary thinkers such as Samuel Huntington………..
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