Fiending for Links - Wednesday, September 30, 2009
1. Move over, Jared! There’s a new Subway spokesman in town. Al Jefferson revealed today that he lost 30 pounds this offseason by eating Subway footlongs. His sandwich of choice? Ham and turkey on wheat. 2. Kobe Bryant has switched allegiances. He’s leaving Upper Deck for Panini, an Italian trading card company that recently scored an
Together for Adoption Conference Less than 2 Days Away
We have been busy gearing up for the conference this weekend! It is hard to believe it is less than 2 days away. Dan and I are very excited. We are also very humbled by the registration numbers – it looks like we will have over 600 folks attending. More than anything we see that as evidence of God’s work in the hearts of His people, moving His church to care for the fatherless! Please pray for the last minute details that we are working on and all the things that we don’t expect that may happe
Understanding Unionism in the Maryland “borderland”
Some are aware of my latest efforts in developing a unit history for Cole’s Cavalry, so I thought I’d occasionally share samplings of some findings.One of the things that strikes me about some of the Marylanders in the unit is the way that they considered themselves Southerners… and most really were since the majority of men in the first four companies, excepting Company C (many from Gettysburg), originated south of the Mason-Dixon Line. So, some could certainly be considered Southern Unionists.
Mitsubishi Concept PX-MIEV show at Tokyo
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Ezra Pound, Famed Nazi-era judge call on Allies to condemn Nuremberg Tribunal
In open letter, members of NGO Monitor’s advisory board say HRW ‘has degenerated into a political lobby aimed primarily at Israel,’ call for replacement of senior officials, particularly in Middle East division Leading academics, journalists, legal and security experts, including Elie Wiesel, Professor Alan Dershowitz, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey and Professor Judea Pearl, called last week for an independent review and reform of Human Rights Watch (HRW). This follows NGO Monitor’s rec
Obama’s Cheney moment
US President Barack Obama’s decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantanamo detainees is a failure of leadership in the project of putting American law on a sound basis for a long-term confrontation with terrorism. It is bad for the country, for national security and for civil liberties. It represents a virtually wholesale adoption of the failed policies of his predecessor – who, with equal obtuseness, refused to root America
Links: September 2009
Health care Bending the curve: effective steps to address long-term health care spending growth , by Joseph Antos et al Three keys to successful health care reform , by Sarah Bianchi The truth about malpractice lawsuits , BusinessWeek No, we can’t all get along on health care , by Jonathan Cohn Reconciliation: why most Dems don’t want to go there , by Jonathan Cohn 8 questions about health care reform , by Ceci Connolly and Alex MacGillis Americans still don’t trust gov
Elitism, Europhilia, and Roman Polanski
The basic theme of Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the nightmare of a modern virtuous society invaded and corrupted by decadent “Old Europe” style nobility, who act in ways that defy morality and flaunt the laws of society due to their belief that they themselves are beyond the reach of man’s justice. Stoker wrote Dracula at a time when England was surpassing Europe as the cultural center of the West, and his novel was a reaction to the antinomian and often blasphemously obscene art and literature o
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