At the end of G.K. Chesterton's (whom atheist Bill Maher thinks is a smart guy) classic Orthodoxy, he states that the one thing Jesus never showed in his earthly life is his mirth. I've come to realise that the problem is that, in one place at least, Our Lord's humour was too dry to readily …
Barack Obama and Juan Peron: Same Playbook, Same Results?
I've make this connection before, too, but here's something of note: His (Obama's) policies even have the potential to consign the US to a similar fate as Argentina, which suffered a painful and humiliating slide from first to Third World status last century, the paper says. There are "troubling similarities" between the US President's actions …
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Danger in Delay: The Real Reason Why Obama’s Health Care Initiative Bombed
There's been a great deal of speculation about why Obama's health care reform plan (to the extent it's Obama's and not Nancy Pelosi's) has bombed to the point where he's having to "fall back and regroup." Conservatives speak of anti-government sentiment, liberals speak of the hysteria "ginned up" for the town hall meetings. But there's …
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Labour Day Message from Art Rhodes, Candidate for Congress
From his blog (read it all here): Labor Day signals the end of summer, the real start of school, the beginning of football season, and the last long weekend to get projects done around the house. This year, though, the holiday has unusual significance to us all, as many Americans find little to celebrate, with …
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Mike Oldfield, Hergest Ridge, And…
My brother and I were committed Anglomaniacs. This was inevitable. Growing up in Palm Beach can be a decidedly unAmerican business; being raised in the "English" church only made matters worse. When he died, the only cash he had on his person was a pound note. (My mother had squirrelled away one too.) People talk …
Hoisting China’s Flag Over the White House: Hard to Avoid
The Chinese are proud of this: The national flag of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on September 20, media reported Sunday. Chinese associations in the United States had applied to hold a ceremony in front of the US President’s residence to …
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A New Look For Worth Avenue–And Some Reflections
The town of Palm Beach is millimetring towards a facelift on what it, IMHO, this country's premier shopping street: Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. This is what it looks like now, looking towards the intersection of Worth Avenue and County Road. This is the graphic rendition of what is to come, with the widened "faux …
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There Was a Rush Along the Fulham Road…
I spent the summer of 1973 doing two things: listening to the Watergate hearings while draughting for my family business, and listening to Jethro Tull's new, controversial, "concept" album, A Passion Play. The combination of the two doubtless contributed to the malaise that overshadowed me as I started college (Watergate itself was something of a …
Bob McDonnell: The Predictable Media Assault Begins
The left is so predictable about things like this. From the Washington Post: At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working …
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Lessons From the Underground
Orignally posted 13 July 2005. The recent bombings in London bring back a lot of memories of all the trips I have taken to this great city. London's underground and rail transport system are always a source of fascination. One reason is that people spend a lot of time in the Tube and on the …
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