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Entries Tagged as 'General Interest'

‘They Need to Be Liberated From Their God’

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments

I’ve been incommunicado for a while, in no small part for reasons shortly forthcoming. But lest you be left completely high and dry, here’s a little nugget for you.
The WSJ has a book review of Son of Hamas which will definitely be on my reading list when it comes out:
Mosab Yousef is the son of […]

Tags: Terrorism · Faith & Religion · General Interest

Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Here’s wishing you all a very blessed a Merry Christmas!
Enjoy your family, the great food, and the time off.
And be mindful of its meaning:
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor […]

Tags: General Interest

Surface Tension

December 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

 

 
You’ll never look at raindrops the same way again.
Check it out. (HT: OrthoCath Blog)

Tags: Science · General Interest

Remember Pearl Harbor

December 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

 
Here’s a collection of archival photographs from Pearl Harbor, Dec 7th 1941.
Most were obtained from the naval archives.

Tags: History · General Interest

Monday Links

November 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Richard Neuhaus: An Election About the Nature of the Church:
American Babylon is our culture. It is not the culture of our choice, although, given the other cultures on offer, it may be the culture we would choose if we had a choice. It is certainly the culture in which we have been chosen and for […]

Tags: Series: Link Suggestions · General Interest

Straw Men & Holy Wars

September 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Charles Gibson’s interview of Sarah Palin is the buzz of the blogs the past few days. In particular, was Charlie’s challenge on her prayer for the troops, taken out of context and misquoted, yet asserted by Gibson to be her “exact words.” He then followed up with the question “Are we fighting a holy war?”
Gibson, […]

Tags: General Interest

Drinking the Kool-AIDS

June 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits:
A quarter of a century after the outbreak of AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organizations may have been […]

Tags: Health Care Policy · Politics & Culture · Medicine · General Interest

The Call

April 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Still trying to stay one step ahead of the snapping alligators, so here’s another older post, hopefully worth your time — Dr. Bob
 

Damn!, I hate these calls…
Lying on my desk, clipped to a yellow manila binder, is a single sheet of paper. Its pleasant color format and sampled photomicrograph belie the gravity of its content:
Adenocarcinoma, […]

Tags: Death & Dying · Faith & Religion · Medicine · General Interest