Archive for July, 2005
Time to Launch NASA?
After more than a decade of embarrassing and fatal failures, we may have reached the time to kiss NASA good-bye and turn America’s space program over to private companies.
(CNN) — A small piece of insulating foam that came off the space shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank may have struck the wing of its orbiter during [...]
Time to Annex Canada?
Begging McArthur’s pardon, some men are born stupid, some achieve stupidity, and others have stupidity handed to them in the form of a diploma.
How retired Royal Military College professor Bob Ferguson reached the exhaulted heights of stupidity from which he now pontificates is uncertain, but chances are education helped.
Mr. Ferguson has called [...]
End of Irish Violence?
Here is the text of the Irish Republican Army’s renouncement of violence to achieve political ends:
The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann (IRA; literally in Gaelic, “Soldiers of Ireland”) has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take effect from 4 p.m. this afternoon.
All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All [...]
Al Franken Starves Poor Children **UPDATED**
So it appears. According to Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrissey, Brian Maloney, The Bronx News, and other sources, several federally supported relief agencies in New York have been illegally funelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to Al Franken’s anti-American radio network Air America.
The agencies in question, Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club and [...]
I Believe in Miracles
I wish I could give the details, but that would cause problems. Suffice it to say that two weeks ago, something my wife and I had been praying hard for seemed to have been placed out of reach. If that was God’s answer to our prayers, it was a resounding “Get lost.”
Thankfully, though, [...]
Gloria in excelsis Deo! (Maybe)
No, really, of course. RomanCatholicBlog tells us at the the next time the Bishops get together, they might, just might, address the problem of horrible, rancid, loud, profane music at Mass.
I’m sure all those who have complained about the music weren’t inspired by my blog. More likely, they were inspired by the same [...]
The Roberts Hearing: A Marc Goodman-Bill Todman Production
Stop whatever you’re doing, and check out Wuzzadem.
Now, dammit. Do it!
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Division of Labor
Since the beginning of the labor union movement, the greatest threat it felt–often paranoically–was management (or the Republicans) “breaking” the union. The external threat was seen to come from anti-union laws, movement of jobs overseas, and negotiating tactics that left union strikes powerless. Now, it seems, that the union movement may, like [...]
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