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I decided today to increase the “journal” portion of this site to a regular thing. The news and politics and funny pictures and videos won’t go away, and there will still probably be more of those than journal entries, but I think it’s a great way to add stuff to the public domain, whereas these [...]

Via Townhall Is Obama A Keynesian?

Apparently President Obama has been encouraging companies to keep existing insurance plans: As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal [...]

From The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted Thursday that a case involving WikiLeaks would likely come before the court. She said that the WikiLeaks “incident,” in which the group posted thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents online, “and others are going to provoke legislation that’s already being discussed in Congress, and so some [...]

Referring to the inability to buy it and state barriers: Woman at California Town Hall Meeting (warning, loud and distorted audio)

From Fox News: Greek Orthodox leaders trying to rebuild the only church destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks expressed shock this week after learning, via Fox News, that government officials had killed a deal to relocate the church. The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, once a tiny, four-story building in the shadows of lower [...]

From Acts 17 Apologetics via YouTube: Of Mosques and Men See also: Act! for America’s Stop the Mosque petition to Michael Bloomberg and New York officials. 99,622 have signed so far.

I’ve always maintained that there is an agenda behind the media establishment’s mocking and opposing faith, religion, family, and culture – that being the lacking created by promiscuous sex, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and other superficial phenomenon creates psychological voids in one’s life, which can be temporarily “fixed” by buying the products in the [...]

From Lew Rockwell: The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate. America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask. Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s’ new Obama Value Meal? A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you [...]

From the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail: West Penn Allegheny Health System officials announced a major consolidation of the system’s two city-based acute-care hospitals. Up to 1,500 jobs will be lost. To be fair, not all of this is the government’s fault. Hospital admissions are well below capacity. From the WPXI story: “Dr. Olivia said the [...]