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Instapundit Glenn Reynolds points to this article about the rise of Christianity in China. He then writes this: It could happen, I suppose, and my colleague Rosalind Hackett, who studies these things, has suggested that militant Christianity, not Islam, is likely to be the religious force of the 21st century. I'm unsure whether the "militant" […]

The Club for Growth has posted an interesting pork scorecard. Certain Republicans (and one Democrat) would do well to promote its findings. Sixteen congressmen scored a perfect 100%, voting for all 50 anti-pork amendments. They are all Republicans. The average Republican score was 43%. The average Democratic score was 2%. The average score for appropriators […]

Last week, California Secretary State Debra Bowen decertified most of the electronic voting machines in the State of California. Ms. Bowen is a moron. Imagine a bank testing its security by giving the "Red Team" a key to the bank, the bank's security codes and the combination to the vault and being shocked that they […]

Before they charged out of Washington, D.C., for their August recess, the House and Senate passed a temporary (six-month) fix to the ridiculousness which has become FISA. Recently a federal FISA judge ruled that communications between two foreign, non-U.S. persons, that merely pass through a piece of electronic equipment in the United States require a […]

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Several weeks ago, radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt interviewed the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus on the situation in that country and the "surge." Andrew Sullivan, who was once sane, decried that decision by the general. If I were eager to maintain a semblance of military independence from the agenda […]

Newsweek magazine has a lame article on human-caused global warming in its latest issue. It starts out with the discredited story that the Competitive Enterprise Institute was "bribing" scientists to come out against global warming. There's no need to really read the article, you've heard it all before: Global -warming deniers are funded by big […]

This is supposed to be a feel-good story, but there's a big question that goes without much notice. A homeless Miami man who hadn't spoken to his family in nearly two decades was found Friday, after his family made public their effort to track him down and present him with a $50,000 inheritance. Randy Chapman, […]

The headline says it all: China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate So, has the Chinese bureaucracy set up shop in whatever the Buddhist reincarnation waiting room is?

I don't remember which of my college reporting classes it was, but one professor had a policy which allowed you to throw out a grade for a single assignment at the end of term, if you had never misspelled anyone's name in any assignment for the entire quarter. Needless to say, very few grades were […]