June 22, 2005
How Europe and the American left are similar

The Wall Street Journal's Tunku Varadarajan has an intriguing and informative interview with Oriana Fallaci. (I read Fallaci's The Rage and The Pride and wholeheartedly endorse it.) I encourage you to read the entire thing, but I want to highlight an excerpt from an essay by the new Pope before he was Pope, as recounted […]

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June 22, 2005
On Social Security

I just saw the most incredible bit of video on Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume." Democratic senators Chuck Schumer and Jeff Bingaman were holding a press conference stating that Democrats would continue to keep their heads buried in the sand regarding Social Security's funding crisis as long as President Bush holds the belief […]

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June 22, 2005
Flag-burning

The House today passed a constitutional amendment that would give the Congress the authority to pass a law (or laws) prohibiting the desecration of the American flag. I'm enthusiastically ambivalent about the whole thing. Legal flag-burning has its advantages -- anytime someone does it you know that you can immediately disregard anything they say as […]

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June 22, 2005
Durbin apologizes, sort of

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin "apologized" on the Senate floor yesterday -- sort of. "More than most people, a Senator lives by his words, words are the coin of the realm in our profession. Occasionally words will fail us and occasionally we will fail words." "On June 14, I took the floor of the Senate to […]

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June 22, 2005
Movie quotes

I watched a bit of AFI's Top 100 greatest movie quotes tonight -- if you're interested, the list is here. The list of the Top 400 nominees can be found here. [PDF format] The list is really mixed. Some of the lines are really good -- very quotable and memorable. Others ... well, it's just […]

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