tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150423562012-01-19T21:48:55.407-05:00FzxGkJssFrkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614328601381003247noreply@blogger.comBlogger7761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042356.post-12080147599317876012010-10-10T18:19:00.002-04:002010-10-10T18:22:17.362-04:00

Thanks to KJ Lopez at The Corner, my 'Too Big To Fail' video is climbing the YouTube charts! Check it out here.

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FYI, for my longtime (and largely lapsed, thanks to my current hiatus) readership - keep an eye out for matthewmcmahonmusic.com. It will be launching within the next couple of days, and I think you'll want to see it.

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Last August I finally took a permanent job in the Washington DC area, and at the same time I became the director of music for a church plant. The permanent job has permitted me the financial leeway to do what (as longtime blog readers know) I've been wanting to do forever, which is to record some of my songs at a professional studio. Between my two jobs and trying to get music arranged and

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Must I declare a national grammatical emergency? As with Elijah in the wilderness, it seems Jezebel has whacked all of the nation's copyeditors and I alone am left. At least once a week, my browsing eyes are violated by the misuse of the word "enormity" where the word "enormous", or some form of it, is thought to belong.The issue here is that "enormous" is an adjective, and in those

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PHYSICS ALERT! PHYSICS ALERT!! (I post about actual physics so rarely that I thought a disclaimer warranted. But don't worry - this is a high-school-level problem.)Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few days, you heard about the reality-TV-"star" family drama this week in which 6-year-old Falcon Heene was alleged by his 9-year-old brother to have flown away in a homemade helium

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Home sick, sleep in, check my email, see the news, shock. And awe.There's only one possible explanation for this that I can see:The Nobel Peace Prize must now be the booby prize for missing out on the Olympics.Okay, okay, seriously: President Obama got the award for not being G. W. Bush. Don't laugh - even the AP thinks so. Check the article:The award appeared to be a slap at Bush from a

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It's sad, truly sad, when it takes a grammar mistake in a major online mag to elicit a post here for the first time in months. I first posted this notice on Facebook; today family and friends, tomorrow the world, as I take arms against a sea of troubled verbiage. (My Christmas list this year consists entirely of a blender; the better to mix my metaphors with - I mean, the better with which to

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I've been wondering whether to say anything about the Perez Hilton beauty pageant scandal. (The scandal is about Hilton's atrocious behavior; it's not about the runner-up contestant.) But Stan has basically said it for me:As I said, I'm glad that Carrie stood on principle. I don't think she was treated fairly. I am not surprised, but I am disappointed that she has been so abused for stating her

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As I'm once again in job-search mode, only this time in a much less rosy economic climate, I needed to go back and read my own words today.

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National Review Online has linked to a list of the books high school students should supposedly read before graduating. K. J. Lopez has already said she's gotten feedback from folks saying The Great Gatsby doesn't belong on the list. I read Gatsby in ninth grade; the only thing I remember from it is that one of the towns was West Egg. Dumb name, that. A supremely unmemorable book, I recall

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AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water I don't doubt that having certain levels of certain chemicals in wastewater streams is a bad thing. But stories like this (linked by Instapundit) do not prove that those levels exist. (To his credit, Prof. Reynolds says so, too.) Furthermore, the numbers they do present occasionally undermine their narrative. Consider the following:Two

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Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present two engineering feats for the ages:The above technology is based on an older version, seen here: I can't wait for the 21st century edition. I think there's some serious stimulus opportunities with this technology...

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Backwards editorial argument of the day:Finally, an idea that could benefit both Detroit and everyday Americans. We're talking about a cash-for-clunker idea that needs fine tuning but should see fast action in Congress.The plan calls for government rebates ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 for drivers who turn in older, low-mileage gas hogs. The payments could be used to buy gas-thrifty, newer models

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Dave Ramsey brings the point home while discussing BonusGate: We desperately need term limits for these clowns in Congress, just as we have for the Presidency. More thoughts:The Obama administration has been absolutely cowardly over BonusGate, and so has Chris Dodd. Here's the bizarre thing: They were actually right the first time, if you believed their initial alarmist claims about all the

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PJ O'Rourke (referred to ironically by Instapundit as a "noted Christianist") makes a superb point while discussing Obama's doublespeak on embryonic stem cell research:But, lest anyone think I'm not serious, let me quote with serious revulsion the following passages from the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)--that great compendium of all the knowledge science possessed, carefully

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The journal Nature declined to print my letter to the editor, so I'm going to post it here for the benefit of my readers. In their polite rejection letter, they claimed that they have to be very selective due to space considerations. That may be, but this week they published four Correspondences compared with last week's dozen or so. All four had to do with science funding levels; none were

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I apologize if the site looks funny for a bit - I'm upgrading to Blogger Layouts and it will take a little while to get all the changes done. Thanks for visiting, as always!UPDATE: The page is mostly done. Let me know in the comments if anything's not working properly!

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I've got a big post on embryo-destructive stem cell research coming, but not just yet.  I have submitted a letter to the editors of Nature magazine - I'm waiting to see if they'll print it before I air the same arguments here.  In the meantime, here's a cornucopia of links about the recent Obama decisions to end the federal funding restrictions on ESCR and to end the additional funding for

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But they've got enough resources to use the IRS to intimidate their political opponents:Political Persecution: Audited For TaxCheatStamps.comToday I received a letter from the IRS that my 2007 tax returns are being audited. Less than one month after launching TaxCheatStamps.com.Read the whole thing, and keep an eye on Michael Williams' situation. This is exactly the sort of thing that lefties

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VIDEO: Wrong red button - David S. Cloud - POLITICO.comShe handed him a palm-sized box wrapped with a bow. Lavrov opened it and pulled out the gift—a red plastic button on a black base with a Russian word “peregruzka” printed on top.“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton said as reporters, allowed in to observe the first few minutes of the meeting, watched

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Quite a statement, this:Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was. His words are responsible; his character is inspiring. But his actions betray a transformational liberalism that should put every centrist on notice. As Clive Crook, an Obama admirer, wrote in The Financial

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National Review's "Planet Gore" blog is looking awfully prescient today:Anyone want to bet on a snowstorm hitting D.C. on March 2, 2009?That was posted on December 18, 2008, noting that there's a global warming protest scheduled for today in D.C. Not bad...Meanwhile, last night Weather.com was predicting 6-8 inches of snow in our town. Accuweather.com was predicting a coating to an inch. Both

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I happened to be one of the winners of Thomas Sowell's book contest in this NRO article - thanks baseball-reference.com! He sent me his book Applied Economics, and four pages in I've already hit a great paragraph:No political message has proven to be more welcome, in countries around the world, in both democratic and undemocratic nations, and among peoples of every race and culture, than the

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How will we know if the stimulus has worked?

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Comes from Jon the Presbyter at Jeff the Baptist, in response to Jeff's apt observation that most folks (like the GkFrks) would be irritated to miss their regularly scheduled programming:AKA, "Chuck Versus the Stimulus Package"I love it!

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I think the birth of these eight children is an amazing and wonderful thing. The larger situation, though, is an ethical quandary at best, and a quagmire at worst.I actually think it's a good thing that these babies were not killed before they even had a chance to be implanted. It's God's mercy that the children and the mother survived. However, I cannot support this woman's decision to pursue

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To my music.  I've finally posted a couple of my songs on MySpace.  Seriously.  They're mostly just guitar vocal demos at this point.So my standard line on this is some variation on the following:  If it's terrible, tell me.  If it's good, tell ten friends!

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Roe and Doe, 36 years on - The Boston GlobeTaken together, Roe and Doe meant that abortion could not be barred at any stage of a pregnancy. The "attending physician" could always say that in his medical judgment, the woman's "emotional" or "familial" health made it necessary to abort her unborn child. The result has been 36 years of abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy.Know the truth

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For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.I'm not so sure sometimes.Jesus never had kids.

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...were made in separate commentaries by George Will and Yuval Levin.  Both had to do with the slightly off Bible reference I mentioned yesterday. Will first:"The time has come," he said pointedly, "to set aside childish things." Things, presumably, such as the pandemic indiscipline that has produced a nation of households as overleveraged as is the government from which the householders

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How does this happen on such a historic Inauguration Day?

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Congratulations to President Obama on becoming the first man of black parentage to be inaugurated President of the United States. The spectacle of the inauguration was a sight to behold, with the Mall packed from end to end. I'm most grateful that he's not Hillary, myself; but just as it's ridiculous to formulate an "approval rating" for someone who wasn't in office yet, it would be out of

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Mark Steyn lampoons Bush's declaration of Washington DC as a federal disaster area in order to rush in funds for the Inauguration proceedings.  Epic!

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Interesting point made by Rick Brookheiser today, though not explicitly in the context of MLK Day:It is impossible to fix this common misconception at this late date,but Mike is only the latest in the long line of those who misunderstandthe three fifths rule. The ratio counting slaves as three fifths ofpersons was used in apportioning representatives in the House, andtherefore also electoral

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Before you comment disagreeably on anything you have read, particularly if you're starting to get hot under the collar, take a deep breath and read it a second time. Then, take another deep breath and read it a third time more slowly, making sure that your disagreement is not superficial.This applies especially to blogging and social-networking applications like Facebook, to which I have

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1. I am the only Web site on the planet, so far as I can tell, on which the phrase "Ray Kurzweil will die" appears. 2. While going through my archives, I remind myself that I consciously have to not take anything Shaun Groves writes about seriously, unless it's about just war, marketing, or Wayne Kirkpatrick songs.3. I used to think that playrooms for children were a luxury. I was wrong. Boy,

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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be calledWonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.7Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end,on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold itwith justice and with righteousness from this

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There's a nice article at National Review on those who celebrate Christmas despite the tyranny under which they live. Because it's worth reading, it's worth criticizing on one point. His activities were not without controversy, however. He went to Sweden during the war to discuss a draft peace treaty that included a request for the Allies to drop their demand for unconditional surrender. While

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I know I've been inactive for over a month now... but this time it's been for a purpose. I'm actually recording some stuff. We'll see how it comes out. Stay tuned.

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I just voted over lunch, and the line wasn't any longer here than it was in the primary. It took me 20 minutes - so fast that I went home and sent Mrs. GkFrk out to vote. It took her 15 minutes door-to-door. Sweet.We shall soon get what we collectively want, one way or another. If you haven't voted, GO VOTE. Especially if you're a conservative. Even if we lose, if it's close we can at least

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Question 1 on the Maryland ballot would enable liberal early voting such that anyone may vote 1) anywhere in state up to ten days before the election or 2) by absentee ballot. I think it's a bad idea. First off, extending voting like this apparently doesn't increase the actual voter turnout much, and would increase the costs of setting up voting. The only benefit is convenience. Convenience?

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Two things have gotten me riled up about the Presidential race this week.  One is Obama's current ad that calls for an end to "mindless partisanship" - that line is particularly galling coming from the single most mindlessly partisan liberal member of the Senate.  The other is Obama's talk about spreading the wealth - his "Robin Hood" economics.  He draws a false dichotomy between socialism and

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And almost only one...  0a) I don't think Palin and McCain lobbing grenades at science is a good move.  0b) If Hitch is going to whine about Palin's Pentecostal roots, where is Hitchens' outrage against the noxious blather that Obama took in from his weekly perch at Jeremiah Wright's church for the same duration, only entirely in his adult life?  But I digress - here's my comment.1) Where does an

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An interview with Fred Smith, FedEx CEO, on a smorgasbord of current economic issues.  I agree with just about everything he has to say.

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This article in Nature is pretty fun:Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that simply peeling ordinary sticky tape in a vacuum can generate enough X-rays to take an image — of one of the scientists' own fingers (see videos)."At some point we were a little bit scared," says Juan Escobar, a member of the research team. But he and his co-workers soon realized that the

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Those of you with a particular taste for all things Jamaican should find this especially amusing: But now academics are working on making the books of the Old and New Testaments available in patois, a spoken language developed by West Indian slaves in the seventeenth century. The project, which is being undertaken by the Bible Society, has upset traditionalists, who have described it as “

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I spent yesterday afternoon wiping my computer and figuring out that one of my RAM sticks was bad. On the plus side, I spent yesterday morning outside making my car look almost like a sports car again...More posts soon.

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And attempts to skewer Palin in the process.  I think, though, that he only ends up skewering his own credibility as a student of English:What an awful statement. Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay

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At least it tickles my physics funny bone and my conservative funny bone. Courtesy of Dave Ramsey, who didn't write it: "Governmentium - The Heaviest Element Known to Science":The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.These 312 particles are held together by forces called

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Apparently Barney Frank's gay lover was a Fannie Mae executive during the 1990s when Frank was pushing for looser lending standards and fighting stricter ones. Dee-lightful.

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Heard a good joke tonight.“What makes a Unitarian move out of the neighborhood?”“When somebody burns a question mark in their yard.”Don’t blame me, blame Garrison Keillor.

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David Freddoso makes a point similar to a recent Glenn Reynolds post:It is no coincidence that the Senate passed its economic bailout bill in a package containing unrelated legislation and special-interest tax breaks. This is an important lesson about how Washington works that is seldom mentioned in the debate over “earmarks,” if these tax provisions can be called that. For in addition to the

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“There are a number of researchers who predict the next solar cycle,” he said. “There are also a number of investment counselors who predict the future of the stock market.”

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Rod Dreher links to a Time article:While researching a book on black televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of California Riverside, he realized that Prosperity's central promise -- that God would "make a way" for poor people to enjoy the better things in life -- had developed an additional, toxic expression during sub-prime boom. Walton says that this

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...that Mitt Romney were the candidate right about now?My bottom line: The McCain campaign is underestimating how absolutely furious conservatives are that free markets, and by extension Reaganomics and the last 25 years of American economic policy, are getting the blame for the housing and credit crisis. A real morale killer, they tell me. Over and over. Every day.Count me among them.

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The Senate's passed it, and House Republican "no" votes are being lobbied hard. Apparently the Democrats really don't want responsibility for this bill, so they've tried to make more concessions to House GOPers. Once again, I'm surprised. I wonder if some folks at the Corner will praise the GOP Nays for their fortitude in wringing concessions from the Dems if this all holds up. I think the SEC

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This is the most theologically disturbing thing I've seen in a while.If you don't think it's a big deal: Imagine the same thing sung about John McCain, and imagine how liberals would react to it.What bothers me most is the overtly Psalmic character of the lyrics (Sing for joy! etc.), which gives the video a perhaps deliberate resemblance to Christian children's songs. Once again, I am baffled by

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There's still a chance that a bailout will pass, and the conservative worry now is that the Democrats will say "screw you" and ramrod through a left-wing version of the bailout.  It's a valid concern.  But some of the reactions against the House Republicans went over the top.  And some in the commentariat have begun to defend the "No" votes and oppose the bailout, explicitly or implicitly. 

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At Instapundit.com: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at

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It seems that the bailout was blocked because, well, America didn't want it to pass.I'm actually surprised.  I thought they would do a deal anyway.  I am neither particularly happy nor particularly disappointed right now, even though the stock market got creamed.  Now I guess I find out what I wished for.  By the way, can somebody explain to me how this speech was supposed to rally support for

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A Main Street Rescue - WSJ.comCongress long ago committed taxpayers when it let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac run wild risks with a public subsidy. It's a little rich to see some of Fannie's most devoted GOP patrons now invoking "free-market" principles to oppose cleaning up their mess. More than one Republican opponent also seems to be angling for a leadership challenge next year, even at the risk

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The argument for the bailout/rescue, according to conservative former Congressman Vin Baker, is that the economy will implode if we don't make the deal, fertilizing the soil for an even more massive bureacracy:I haven’t had a single conversation with anyone in the real economy that does not confirm the Paulsen/Bernanke warning that a failure to act now will precipitate a meltdown of our

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From Roger Landry, a Catholic priest:Governors, Senators, Congressmen, and activist judges seem to have no anxiety at all about imposing their view of the good on others when it concerns smoking legislation, taxes, the environment, marriage, the treatment of prisoners, economic bailouts, or war and peace. Why is it that the only time politicians ever invoke a false sense of pluralistic tolerance

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Opinion: A Big Government bailoutGood article by Steven Greenhut, who cites one of the few things Ron Paul has said in the last year that didn't make me think he was off his rocker.

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At least Boston Globe readers will know Frank's role in the present crisis.

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Power Line: A Report From the HouseI had the indistinct pleasure of listening to C-SPAN radio yesterday to and from a job interview.  It is difficult to express the disingenuous character of the arguments propounded by the Congressional Democrats yesterday in their press sessions.  Keep in mind that what I heard is already a full day obsolete, but it's interesting to compare it with the Power

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Pray.Quit worrying about stuff I have no control over.Repeat.

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If the men in the white suits come for Naomi Wolf, I guess it would be correct to say that "Palin did it", one way or the other...Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for

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...don't just opt for the best available rate of return you can find, or you might get burned. The second consideration is whether or not the fund you own pays a yield that seems to be too good to be true. Morningstar has data on just over 2,100 money market funds, and the Reserve Primary Fund [ed. - the one that failed] clocked in at an average trailing 12-month yield of 4.04%--the highest in

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[T]he McCain campaign has accused the New York Times of rank partisanship, and of failing to pay any attention to Obama’s record and past associations. Hilariously, the Obama campaign has now come out in defense of the Times, arguing that in fact the paper has published numerous hard-hitting investigative stories about Obama... Read on for the list...

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I've given myself a little more elbow room in the main column, hoping it will prevent scroll fatigue in my readers to some degree. I'm going to try to revise the banner sometime too, since it's two years out of date and takes up a lot of real estate.

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Republicans have a problem if the following data are correct:ID1. Generally speaking, do you consider yourself…Very liberal 6Somewhat liberal 17Moderate 43Somewhat conservative 22Very conservative 11Refused / Not Answered 1PID1. Do you consider yourself a Democrat, Republican, an Independent, a supporter of some other party, or none of these?Democrat 40Republican 27Independent 20Some other party

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There is pretty much no conceivable circumstance under which I would vote for Barack Obama.  However, if John McCain keeps up saying things like "Andrew Cuomo for SEC Chair", he might not get my vote either.  McCain is getting a lot of flak from the conservative blogosphere (see here, here, and here, scroll down a bit) for suggesting Cuomo, but it's not just conservatives who have reservations. 

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In other words, dog bites man.  Key grafs:... [M]any whites who think most blacks are somewhat lazy, violent or boastful are willing or even eager to vote for Obama over Republican John McCain, who is white. The poll may surprise those who thought Obama's appeal to young voters proves Americans in their 20s and 30s are clearly less racially biased than their parents. The survey found no

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ESPN - Commodores crack Top 25 for first time in 24 years; LSU moves into 5th - College FootballThe Southeastern Conference needs to find another pushover.Vanderbilt, for years the weakest team in college football's toughest league, moved into the AP Top 25 on Sunday for the first time in 24 years.The unbeaten Commodores are No. 21 in the latest rankings.They couldn't find twenty-five teams

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I was gone for five days at an international conference, myself:This year's election season is like a movie so plot-rich that if you leave for a minute to buy a box of popcorn you no longer no know what's going on. I've been out of commission for a day and a half, making a quick trip to West Palm Beach, and I've returned to find another huge day in the market, an apparent undertaking by the

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Posting will be sparse if not nonexistent this week. When I return I hope to convey some understanding of how the international community sees the Presidential race.

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Keep an eye on GetReligion over the next months leading up to the election. They've been all over the Gibson gaffe. They've also addressed the cute canard that "Pontius Pilate was a governor, Jesus was a community organizer." First, again with the Messianic stuff? What kind of Christian continually permits his supporters to compare him favorably with Christ? Secondly, as to the substance of

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If you're scoring at home, and I know this is a bit late, the much-ballyhooed Sarah Palin interview/debate with Charlie Gibson appears to have ended Palin 1, Gibson 1.Palin 1: Gibson's "exact quote" from Palin regarding whether our mission in Iraq is God's will was as misleading as you can get without hitting bald-faced-lie territory. From Power Line:In the interview with Sarah Palin broadcast

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Damon thinks Palin's possible young-earth creationism (and I don't take his word for that) is dangerous because "she'll have the nuclear codes". Wha-???News flash: The only person in history to order that a nuclear bomb be dropped on another country was a Midwestern liberal Democrat who very likely believed in evolution.

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Never.

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There's plenty of spin, lies, and whoppers circulating about Sarah Palin right now. Instapundit has been pretty good about linking to Palin mythbusting sites, and these are two that I've found mostly informative:FactCheck.org: Sliming PalinPajamas Media » Separating Palin Fact from Palin FictionThe whoppers are, of course, contra Palin. The spin and lies have been both pro and con (though

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It's the Hirshman Canard! (Yes, I just gave it a name...) Or is he just suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome?The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism,

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La Shawn Barber doesn't like the Palin pick either, and thinks Bristol Palin should give her daughter up for adoption to an older married couple. (The term "knocked up" features prominently in her analysis.) Similarly, my mom has opined that Bristol and her boyfriend are getting married because there's political pressure to do so, and that it would be a mistake for them to get married just

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Interesting. I used to listen to Dr. Laura's radio show a decade ago. I even wrote a political cartoon defending her in my college newspaper; this was probably about the dustup with her comments on Bill Clinton's affair (which she mentions in the post). I think nobody got it because none of my classmates knew who she was. Oh well. I think I have a copy somewhere. Turns out she's got a blog,

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I know some conservatives won't be thrilled with this, but I have to say, about five minutes into Palin's speech I thought: "I can't wait to see the Saturday Night Live mock debates - Tina Fey is going to be hilarious as Palin." Apparently I wasn't the only one who had that thought.

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In no particular order.I like Sarah Palin. I actually watched her speech; it was the only speech of either convention that I watched, save the few minutes of Giuliani leading up to Palin.The fellows at Power Line are divided on her as a VP candidate, and so am I.The cable media coverage that I watched (because we were visiting family who watch: I don't usually watch any cable news) was almost

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Mark Steyn's June 8 column still applies, and it just made me laugh out loud:A few months back, just after the New Hampshire primary, a Canadian reader of mine – John Gross of Quebec – sent me an all-purpose stump speech for the 2008 campaign: "My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." [Ed.- to be clear, Barack

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I write to praise a good article by AP's Rachel Zoll: "Pelosi gets unwanted lesson in Catholic theology". The article examines the nationwide uproar among Catholic bishops sparked by Pelosi's pontifications regarding Catholic teaching about abortion in an interview with Tom Brokaw of NBC. Pelosi cited Augustine to argue that the Catholic position on abortion has only become rigid in the last 50

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I've been on a blog break, prompted mostly by a lot of busyness but also by Internet burnout. Anyway, today I saw this item and I would have spewed my coffee, except I don't drink coffee. I had to post it - sorry about the extended quote AP... Clinton supporter says she was called 'Uncle Tom'A black delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton says she was called an "Uncle Tom" by Illinois Senate

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La Shawn Barber has thoughts similar to mine on Obama:If you believe marriage should be defined as between one man and one woman, you are divisive and discriminatory, said future President Barack Hussein Obama.But by his own logic, BHO’s also divisive and discriminatory, because he reportedly said he believes marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I don’t get it. Which is it,

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Congratulations to the Columbian government on this rescue. I know almost nothing of Columbian politics, but I don't see how this can be anything but good. Nice to see some good news out there.

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Hugh Hewitt highlights Michelle and Barack Obama's unwavering commitment to redefine marriage to encompass same-sex relationships throughout the entire country. I will be voting against Obama in November; this is one of the top reasons. The video in Hugh's post is key. It highlights Obama's passing familiarity with Scripture and willingness to abuse it to serve his own ends. Watch how

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From Yahoo! News:Fifty-two passengers on a Chinese airliner whose flight was cancelled due to bad weather refused to disembark and instead spent the night onboard before finally leaving to their destination, local media said on Friday. The passengers boarded for their 8 p.m. (1:00 a.m. EDT) flight from Beijing to the eastern coastal city of Yantai, but after more than three hours of sitting on

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My laptop has eaten something like four or five posts in the last few days, which is why posting has been sparse. I'll try to be back up soon. In the meantime, check out RCB (here and here) and La Shawn Barber for interesting takes on Obama-Dobson. That is, the controversy, not the potential ticket :)Short version: Obama may have a point about applying Biblical principles to the public arena (

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Andrew Potter, a blogger for Macleans, thinks so:Prof. X’s problem is that he actually believes that English lit actually matters... The special pleading at work here is nauseating. Here’s the thing: Cops and nurses and bank tellers are required to have Lit 101 not because anyone cares whether they understand the theme of Animal Farm. Lit 101 is a credential, a proxy that indicates that the

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Via Instapundit and Irish Trojan come these two articles. They're long, but they cover important topics. Both, incidentally, are from The Atlantic monthly magazine.American Murder Mystery, by Hanna Rosin.In the Basement of the Ivory Tower, by a professor who declines to be identified!

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Curt Schilling will have season-ending surgery that may end his career. I hope not, but if he's done, he's had a great career and will always be a legend in Boston. ESPN was just asking whether Schilling will make the Hall of Fame. How is this even a question?? Not only did Schilling win World Series games forthree different franchises over a span of fifteen years, including the "cursed" 86-

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These are painfully funny, if a little mean. Via The Next Reformation. Here are my favorites:

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