Current Events Archive
San Diego Mayor Reverses Position on Gay Marriage
Andrew Schwartz e-mailed me a link to this video, with the subject line "Integrity." I really couldn't agree more.
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Don’t Believe Your Eyes (When You’re at the Newsstand)
July 27, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Photos
Learn what any Photoshop expert already knows.
I know how to do many of these tricks, but I always find it ridiculously time-consuming. I'm sure the real experts get much quicker at it, but I ...
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Knowing When to Step on Someone’s Neck
June 5, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Humor
Despite my strong spiritual inclinations, or perhaps because of them, I greatly admire men who know how to don the mask of anger just long enough to take care of urgent business.
In that respect, these ...
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My Personal Respect for Bruce Willis
May 1, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Personal
...Just keeps growing.
In general, I admire couples who can still see one another's goodness, and treat one another with real respect, even after a divorce.
I interpret it as an all-too-rare indication of maturity and self-responsibility ...
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C’mon, Al. Step up to the plate!
March 19, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Politics
British scientist Lord Monkton -- a former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher during her years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom -- says:
A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that ...
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When Will She Snap? And Other Reasons to Like Barak Obama
March 16, 2007 · Category: Current Events, Politics
Twenty-year-old black youth Donny Lumpkins, explaining just one of many reasons why he's ready to vote for Barak Obama:
[Hillary] scares me and always has. Ever since I was little she always reminded me of that ...
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Iraq in Fragments - Watch the Trailer
From Michael Totten:
I cannot recommend a film I haven’t seen. But the high-definition trailer for Iraq in Fragments knocked me out of my chair.
Watch this on the biggest computer screen you have at the highest ...
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Why Would Anyone Want to Hurt the Amish?
October 7, 2006 · Category: Current Events
Stephen Browne offers an excellent analysis of the Amish school shootings. He concludes by examining the motives of the killer, and I think he's right:
Firstly, let me note that attributions of motive, a favorite ...
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RSS Feed for Common Sense
September 17, 2006 · Category: Current Events, Politics
If, like me, you find Neil Cavuto's daily 60 seconds of "Common Sense" to be uncommonly sensible, you will share my thrill to know it is currently available via RSS feed for regular perusal in ...
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Supporting 3rd World Entrepreneurs
September 8, 2006 · Category: Current Events
From a recent article in BusinessWeek:
Ann Brown and Maria Martinez have never met, but last March Brown loaned Martinez $50. It was part of a $400 loan Martinez needed to get her clothing store up ...
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