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I’ve read a lot of news stories and blog posts about yesterday’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum. Only one gave me a lump in my throat.
Thank you, Anchoress.

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Are they watching Fox News with beer goggles? My outrage over “The 11 Hottest FOX News Reporters”

Maybe I’m just picky — I know my dad would say I am — but nextround.net’s list of  ”The 11 Hottest FOX News Reporters” strikes me as over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time.  Some of these gals aren’t that good looking at all. And there are at least two important omissions.
So, in one of my [...]

I guess any kind of intrusive surveillance is OK, as long as it’s for taxes instead of catching terrorists.

How else to explain a report in the Charlotte Observer that North Carolina is considering monitoring vehicle mileage of private citizens in order to tax them according to mileage and road use?  The monitoring would be accomplished either through regular odometer readings or, more ambitiously, through GPS tracking:
With gas-tax revenues plummeting, the state of North [...]

“Black Friday” hysteria claims its first fatality of 2008.

A mob of “Black Friday” shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death this morning in New York.
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly [...]

Fire is Bad No Matter Who It Hits

There’s a horrible fire burning many home in the hills above Montecito, California.

Believe I or not, politic intrudes on my thoughts even as I pray for the firefighters and the people whose property is threatened or has already been destroyed. Why, you ask?

Because it reminds me of another fire almost twenty years ago, when [...]

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