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• Denying Communion To Pro-Abortion Catholics: The Hypocrisy Factor

  The current brouhaha over the fact that Bishop Thomas Tobin told “Catholic” pro-abortion politician U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to take communion could use some historical perspective.
  
  Let’s roll the clock back almost 50 years, to Louisiana where Catholic politicians who were segregationists were disciplined by the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:18am EST
  

• Obama Teleprompter Failure

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:09pm EST
  

• Aspin Center Honorees: Push Gay Agenda to Persecute Christian Social Service Agencies

  We have blogged before about how Marquette’s Les Aspin Center has a pattern of honoring members of Congress who not merely take positions contrary to Catholic teaching, but extreme positions contrary to Catholic teaching.
  
  Two egregious cases: Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Congressman John Lewis. (Check here [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:51am EST
  

• The Very Narcissistic Mr. Obama

  Never has an American president been so smitten with himself.
  
  Or if one has, he was smart enough to conceal it.
  
  The truth is, Obama is pretty much an empty suit. Yes, he has the standard liberal/left views of community activists and academics. He can seem like [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:30pm EST
  

• Marquette Sociology Professor: Don’t Blame Hasan’s Muslim Views for Fort Hood Shooting

  The Muslim faith of Fort Hood assassin Nidal Hasan so obviously played a part in the murders he committed that even the mainstream media have covered the evidence in detail.
  
  Facts have overcome political correctness.
  
  But in academia, especially sociology departments, facts have little traction against ingrained assumptions [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:43am EST
  

• Health Care Debate Tonight

  Unaffordable or Unavoidable:
  A Forum on Health Care Reform
  
  A town hall forum featuring:
  Dr. Susan Giaimo
  Panelist: Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
  Dr. John McAdams
  Panelist: Associate Professor of Political Science
  Dr. Robert Kraig
  Panelist: Executive Director, Citizen Action of Wisconsin
  State Rep. Leah Vukmir
  Panelist: Representative [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:35pm EST
  

• Fort Hood: Lessons About Gun Control

  The “20/20” segment below was produced before the Fort Hood tragedy, but it’s especially relevant now.
  
  
  
  This point is explicitly address on the Reason blog. When Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan started shooting up the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Pfc. Marquest Smith dove under [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:17pm EST
  

• Is Dissent Patriotic?

  From Bob Hamer on Biggovernment.com: Earlier this year as I was filling up at the gas station I noticed a faded bumper sticker - vintage Bush 43 - on the car next to me: “Dissent is Patriotic.” When I pointed to the bumper and asked the driver if she [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:30pm EST
  

• Fort Hood Shooter’s Motivation

  
  It now seems pretty obvious that what we had was a lone nut.
  
  That’s not to say that there was no political content to the act. The guy had a sharp Islamic grievance, and he was acting on that. Yet he appears to have been part of no [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:13am EST
  

• Obama Cult of Personality in Public Schools

  It’s more than just one school.
  
  The Obama Cult of Personality has apparently become pretty common in public schools.
  
  All the more reason to push for school choice. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  

• ObamaCare: Demagoguing the Insurance Companies

  From Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe: TWO THINGS supporters of a government-run “public option” for health insurance know for sure. One is that private health insurers are raking in obscenely high profits. The other is that only a government rival can force them to compete on price.
  
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:26pm EST
  

• Treason From Boston Store?

  Right now on the Boston Store website, they are selling Minnesota Vikings Brett Favre replica team jerseys.
  
  
  We don’t actually mind, but it is interesting that their commercial calculation is that people in the Milwaukee area do still like Favre, and are willing [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:40am EDT
  

• Republicans Better Informed

  I’m sure a lot of readers know snobby liberals who insist that all the well-informed people agree with them, and only know-nothings could possibly be Republicans.
  
  Well . . . from the Pew Research Center, data that won’t be new to anybody who knows about public opinion. It shows [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 7:08pm EDT
  

• Great Vacation Idea!

  The most politically incorrect vacation one can imagine, but then all the fun things are these days! [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:31pm EDT
  

• United Church of Christ: Stiffle “Hate Speech”

  UCC supposedly stands for “United Church of Christ,” but the old jibe is that it really stands for “Unitarians Considering Christ.” A very liberal denomination, its ruling elites (and to a considerable extent, the members who haven’t yet left) use Christian rhetoric, but they won’t assert anything that rankles the [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:09pm EDT
  

• The Future of U.S. Health Care (If the Liberals Get Their Way)

  Further news on an issue we have blogged on before.
  
  From The Times:AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.
  
  Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
  

• Big Labor and Whole Foods’ Health Care Sanity

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  Posted: October 18, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
  

• Anti-Christian Censorship in the Public Schools

  Public school administrators continue to censor Christian expression. First, a kid who drew a poster of Jesus. The case of a former kindergarten student whose art project with Jesus was censored by his New York school will be heard in an appeals court Friday.
  
  Antonio Peck, the student, [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:59pm EDT
  

• Government Run Health Care and Killing Patients

  From National Review Online: Compare America’s system with Canada’s and Great Britain’s. The latter are single-payer, universal health-care programs in which medical treatment is free at the point of service (Yay!), although citizens eventually pay for it through higher taxes (Boo!).
  
  According to Organization for Economic Cooperation and [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:19pm EDT
  

• Academic Affirmative Action for Conservatives?

  A former student or ours, a conservative, got the following e-mail: You are invited to the
  
  Harvard Kennedy School
  
  GOP Recruiting Reception
  
  Hosted by
  
  Judy Kugel, Acting Dean of Students
  
  The University Club
  
  1135 Sixteenth Street, NW
  
  Washington, DC
  
  October 7, 2009
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
  

• Gore Vidal Unhinged

  From The Times: Today religious mania has infected the political bloodstream and America has become corrosively isolationist, he says. “Ask an American what they know about Sweden and they’d say ‘They live well but they’re all alcoholics.’ In fact a Scandinavian system could have benefited us many times over.” [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 2:08pm EDT
  

• Gaming the College Rankings (It’s Not Just Marquette)

  Three years ago we reported how Marquette had begun to manipulate the ACT and SAT scores of the entering freshman class, in order to improve our ranking with U.S. News & World Report.
  
  We, for course, had no illusions that Marquette was the only university doing this. According [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
  

• Gaming the College Rankings (It’s Not Just Marquette)

  Three years ago we reported how Marquette had begun to manipulate the ACT and SAT scores of the entering freshman class, in order to improve our ranking with U.S. News & World Report.
  
  We, for course, had no illusions that Marquette was the only university doing this. According [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
  

• Dave Barry on Marquette (And Other) Censorship

  
  
  This was a big issue three years ago. And it’s not forgotten: the fact that the Marquette Philosophy Department was not willing to let a graduate student express a rather mild — but offensive to the hyper-leftist types there — opinion on the door of his office.
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 10:19am EDT
  

• Obama Hero Worship: Indoctrination in the Schools

  
  
  Hat Tip: Stepping Right Up! [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 10:09pm EDT
  

• Those Offensive Anti-Obama Signs

  From the RealNews blog: Ever since the Tea Party phenomenon exploded onto the political scene a few months back, the Left has been up in arms over the inflammatory and offensive rhetoric featured on some of the signs and placards displayed by those in attendance. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 10:44am EDT
  

• Unhinged Left Talks About Obama Assassination

  From the left-wing Media Matters: A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this
  
  That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.
  
  I’ve been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I’ve watched the increasingly violent rhetorical [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
  

• Anti-Obama Sentiment: It’s Not About Race

  From David Brooks of the New York Times: You wouldn’t know it to look at me, but I go running several times a week. My favorite route, because it’s so flat, is from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol and back. I was there last Saturday and found [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
  

• Obama in the Bunker

  
  
  We’re not pushing any analogies here too hard. Obama is not Hitler. But then, there is a point to this satire.
  
  [Update]
  
  There is an entire genre of parodies based on this same scene from the German film “Downfall.” You might check out “Hitler Learns [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
  

• Health Insurance as Though Economics Matters

  
  
  Two more examples of how market competition drives down prices are stand-alone imaging centers and dialysis centers. It’s clear that sane health-care reform would involve high coinsurance, deductables and out of pocket maximums, combined with medical savings accounts.
  
  But that doesn’t serve the political interests of certain [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 5:59pm EDT
  

• Cream City Bluegrass This Fall

  From our colleague Ryan Hanley:Hi Bluegrass Fans and Friends,
  
  It’s been a while since I’ve been in touch about things bluegrass – but I thought you might want to be spared a play-by-play of the Cream City Bluegrass Band’s every movement across the state this summer! But now that [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 10:51am EDT
  

• Obama’s Arrogant, Partisan Health Care Speech

  From Reason, a fairly long post, in which we found the following particularly cogent: As the reform supporter and professional skeptic Mickey Kaus noted before the speech, “Obama doesn’t need to get ‘Republicans on board.’ He doesn’t need to get Blue Dog Democrats on board. He needs to get [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
  

• Anti-Abortion Activist Shot: Will the Mainstream Media Report It?

  Via Real Debate Wisconsin, a story in a Michigan paper: Anti-abortion activist shot in front of Owosso High School
  
  OWOSSO, Michigan -- State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning in front of Owosso High [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:16am EDT
  

• Remembering 9/11: Our Enemies Meant What They Said

  This classic column from Jeff Jacoby appeared on 9/13/2001. NOW THAT IT HAS HAPPENED TO US, the White House is not calling for “restraint.” The State Department is not concerned about “escalating the cycle of violence.” There are no editorials imploring the parties to conduct a “peace process” and [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 10:41am EDT
  

• What Was Wrong With the Obama Health Care Speech

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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 7:55pm EDT
  

• ObamaCare and Forced Unionization

  From the Wall Street Journal: In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 11:20am EDT
  

• Yet More on Socialized Medicine in the U.K.

  From the Daily Mail: Patients in Health Service hospitals are far more likely to go hungry than criminals in jail, scientists warned yesterday.
  
  They say frail and elderly patients do not get the help they need with meals, and nobody checks whether they get enough to eat.
  
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 9:02am EDT
  

• Teddy Liked to Joke About Chappaquiddick

  
  
  We can just imagine: “did you hear the one about this chick I downed?” [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 8:21pm EDT
  

• Obama On Health Care: Shut Up and Take What I Give You

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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 4:55pm EDT
  

• Obama’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

  From Big Hollywood: . . . I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to take part in a conference call that invited a group of rising artist and art community luminaries “to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 10:33pm EDT
  

• The “Lies” About Socialized Medicine

  From Patrick McIlheran, who is responding to the claim of liberal Paul Krugman that horror stories about socialized medicine are “lies”:

  You mean like this story, just to grab one from the headlines this week? “A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was [...]

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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
  

• Actually, Liberals Don’t Believe in Freedom to Dissent Either

  From Andrew Breitbart on Real Clear Politics: John Mackey - the founder, CEO and marketing genius behind Whole Foods - finds himself in an organic, unsustainable mess with his carefully cultivated affluent, liberal customer base after penning an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, “The Whole Foods Alternative [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 11:33am EDT
  

• Leftists Don’t Believe in Academic Freedom

  From the Associated Press: BERKELEY, Calif. — Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists.
  
  Campus police arrested at least four [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
  

• Obama Health Care Means Rationing

  From Martin Feldstein, in the Wall Street Journal: Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama’s health plan. The Obama strategy is to reduce health costs by rationing the services that we and future generations of patients will receive.
  
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 7:28pm EDT
  

• More Media Hypocrisy on Anti-ObamaCare Protestors

  From the Media Research Center: With President Obama and congressional liberals facing loud protests over their big government health care plan, journalists are casting the anti-ObamaCare forces as “ugly,” “unruly,” “nasty” mobs, with reporters presenting the most odious images (like pictures of Obama drawn as Hitler) as somehow representative. [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 4:10pm EDT
  

• “On the Issues” at the Law School: Fall Schedule

  Via e-mail: Wednesday, September 2—U.S. Senator Herb Kohl—Wisconsin’s senior Senator visits the Law School to discuss health care reform and other important issues facing the nation. Kohl, a Democrat, was first elected to the Senate in 1988. Before entering the world of politics, he helped build his family-owned business, Kohl’s [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 3:34pm EDT
  

• Mainstream Media: Protests Were Great When They Were Anti-Bush

  From the Media Research Center, an account of how the Mainstream Media, which is having a conniption fit about protesters coming out to oppose ObamaCare, sung a very different tune when the left was protesting Bush.
  
  Some examples: “When those who dissent are told time and time again [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 2:11pm EDT
  

• When the Health Care You Get Depends on How Well You Lobby

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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 7:54pm EDT
  

• White House Enemies List

  This has gotten a lot of play in the media.
  
  It’s the now-famous White House web page asking that Americans report any e-mail that says anything “fishy” about Obama’s attempt to impose government-run health.
  
  We just sent them an e-mail, to flag@whitehouse.gov, as follows: Please add [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 12:02am EDT
  

• "Public Option:” Trojan Horse for Socialized Medicine

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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
  

• The Truth About the Town Hall Meetings

  Some thoughts from Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal: What has been most unsettling is not the congressmen’s surprise but a hard new tone that emerged this week. The leftosphere and the liberal commentariat charged that the town hall meetings weren’t authentic, the crowds were ginned up by [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 11:12am EDT
  

• Obama to Dissenters: Shut Up

  
  
  Most liberals know better than to overtly say, “we don’t like free speech,” and “free speech has to end.”
  
  Admittedly, in some liberal enclaves (English and Philosophy departments, Education schools) liberals will say that. But they are so far out of the mainstream that they say fascist [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 10:45am EDT
  

• Joker Parody About Obama

  
  
  We weren’t going to post this -- since it’s all over the place and readily available, until we found an article by a politically correct yahoo claiming that it’s racist.
  
  We believe, as a matter of principle, that the race card should [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 7:43pm EDT
  

• Canada Health Care: Yet Another Horror Story

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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 11:48am EDT
  

• Canada Health Care: Yet Another Horror Story

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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 11:48am EDT
  

• News Stories on Marquette: Video Archive

  Oddly, we didn’t know about this.
  
  An archive of news stories about Marquette on TV.
  
  Most, of course, are on local TV stations. But in a few cases Marquette made CNN, ESPN and C-SPAN.
  
  The archive goes back to February, 2004. [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 10:08pm EDT
  

• Pets Get Better Health Care in Canada

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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
  

• The Future of American Medicine, If Obama and the Liberals Get Their Way

  From the Telegraph: Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS, doctors have warned.
  
  The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
  

• The Real “Teachable Moment” on Race

  From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON – The police officer at the center of a national dispute over race and law enforcement says a much-anticipated meeting at the White House was productive and all parties are looking forward.
  
  Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley spoke after meeting with President [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
  

• Obama to Elderly Mom: Die

  
  
  When Obama talks about “cost savings” under a nationalized health care plan, he must be talking about something like this. Indeed, the leftist policy wonks who have been pushing socialized medicine (most of them not runing for office) had been quite frank about what they want. If you [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2009, 12:14pm EDT
  

• If Government Ran Restaurants Like It Would Run Health Care

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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
  

• Mayo Clinic Condemns Obama Socialized Medicine Plan

  From the Washington Times: A world-renowned clinic that President Obama held up as an example of good medicine said Monday that the American people would be “losers” under the House’s health care proposal, joining the growing chorus of critics the Obama administration is trying to fend off as the [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
  

• Canadian Health Care

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  Posted: July 20, 2009, 9:27pm EDT
  

• Stopping and Searching People Just to Obtain Racial Balance

  It’s the “logic” of affirmative action taken to its logical (or rather illogical) conclusion.
  
  From The Guardian: Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under their counter-­terrorism powers – simply to ­provide a racial balance in official statistics, the government’s official anti-terror law watchdog [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2009, 11:25am EDT
  

• Obama’s Revisionist History of the Cold War

  From Liz Cheney, writing on the Wall Street Journal. There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.
  
  Speaking to a group of students, our [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 8:33pm EDT
  

• Supposedly Catholic Cardinal Stritch University Offers “Domestic Partner” Health Benefits

  It says so right on their website. Health Insurance*
  
  Full-time employees, their spouses, dependents and/or domestic partners are eligible to participate in the University’s Group Medical Benefits program. This is a self-funded plan administered by Wausau Benefits. This plan provides medical, hospital, surgical and certain other benefits, including [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 11:18am EDT
  

• Celebrity Republicans

  From WCBS, Channel 2 in New York, a slideshow of celebrities who are (or are thought to be) Republicans and/or conservatives.
  
  Be wary of a case or two of what may be jumping to conclusions about some celebrity’s political views. Also, the list includes a fair number of [...]
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  Posted: July 12, 2009, 10:51am EDT
  

• The Flynn/McBride Affair and Journalistic Malpractice

  The illicit affair between Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn and local journalist Jessica McBride is a fiasco any way you look at it. It badly tarnishes the reputations of both.
  
  Presumably, we can all agree that adultery is wrong (although a lot of people, frankly, don’t seem to take [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 9:36pm EDT
  

• Feminist Professors Don't Get the Facts Straight

  From the woman the feminists love to hate, Christina Hoff Sommers, an article that begins with an e-mail she sent to Berkeley feminist professor Nancy K.D. Lemon pointing out factual errors in her (unfortunately) widely used textbook:
  Lemon’s Domestic Violence Law is organized as a conventional law-school casebook [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
  

• Would a Government Health Monopoly Reduce Administrative Costs?

  From Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics, an debunking of statistics that claim to show that government health care has lower administrative costs than does private insurance. In fact, President Obama has made this claim several times. This statistic about Medicare’s low administrative costs has become one of the [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
  

• Bruce Murphy Responds: McBride-Flynn Affair/Bice Responds to Murphy

  Online under Murphy’s Law, Milwaukee Magazine editor Bruce Murphy discussing an article by Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The article discussed an affair between police chief Ed Flynn, and Jessica McBride (a journalist who wrote a profile about Flynn for Milwaukee Magazine).
  
  The Bice article strongly suggested [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2009, 11:02pm EDT
  

• Liberals vs. Conservatives: Condensed History

  From an e-mail correspondent. Don’t run to Snopes to see whether it is historically accurate.Condensed History
  
  For those that don’t know about history. Here is a condensed version:
  
  Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
  

• It’s Dangerous to Not Execute Murderers

  Death penalty opponents have incessantly stressed the possibility that some innocent person might be found guilty and executed -- something that apparently hasn’t happened in the modern era.
  
  And they produce bogus lists of supposed “innocents” on death row -- lists laden with names of people who really [...]
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  Posted: June 16, 2009, 11:42am EDT
  

• Homosexuality: It’s a Crime in England to State Christian Views

  From CCFON: An open-air preacher from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, was told by the police that he was committing a criminal offence by saying that homosexuality was a sin.
  
  Andy Robertson, an evangelist with Open Air Mission, had never mentioned homosexuality in his open air preaching. Despite this, the local [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
  

• We Have Been Over and Seen the Furture -- Via Google Maps

  For a mind-blowing experience, get the Google maps version of the capital of North Korea -- Pyongyang. Click to get the satellite version, if it doesn’t come up automatically.
  
  Now zoom in as far as it will let you -- just one step below the very highest magnification. [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2009, 6:05pm EDT
  

• Sotomayor “Wise Woman” Comment Part of a Pattern

  From CQ Politics: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor delivered multiple speeches between 1994 and 2003 in which she suggested “a wise Latina woman” or “wise woman” judge might “reach a better conclusion” than a male judge.
  
  Those speeches, released Thursday as part of Sotomayor’s responses to the Senate [...]
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  Posted: June 05, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
  

• Sotomayor “Wise Woman” Comment Part of a Pattern

  From CQ Politics: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor delivered multiple speeches between 1994 and 2003 in which she suggested “a wise Latina woman” or “wise woman” judge might “reach a better conclusion” than a male judge.
  
  Those speeches, released Thursday as part of Sotomayor’s responses to the Senate [...]
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  Posted: June 05, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
  

• Buy Your Car From Congress: Not that You Have a Choice

  
  
  H/T Wigderson Library & Pub [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2009, 11:14pm EDT
  

• Two Murders -- Two Media Standards

  From Maggie Gallagher on Real Clear Politics: Abdulhakim Muhammad, Pvt. Long’s killer, had his reasons for engaging in cold-blooded murder. He was retaliating against these soldiers for the U.S. military’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the mistreatment of Muslims, this young man said. This was an act of [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2009, 10:58pm EDT
  

• The Problems With a Nationalized General Motors

  From David Brooks in the New York Times, a catalogue of the ways in which government ownership will make GM a worse company. First, the Obama plan will reduce the influence of commercial outsiders. The best place for fresh thinking could come from outside private investors. But the Obama [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2009, 11:21pm EDT
  

• Sonia Sotomayor: Quota Queen

  From Patrick J. Buchanan: If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court. Because that is what Sonia is all about. As the New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based [...]
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  Posted: June 02, 2009, 3:06pm EDT
  

• Bluegrass this Saturday Evening

  From our colleague Ryan Hanley:This Saturday evening, the Cream City Bluegrass Band will be back at our favorite regular east side haunt! We’re playing at Paddy’s Pub (2339 N. Murray, Milwaukee) from 9-midnight. If it’s warm we may be outside on the patio; otherwise, we’ll be in the upstairs [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2009, 7:33pm EDT
  

• An Endorsement for Obama’s Fuel Economy Standards

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  Posted: May 28, 2009, 11:20pm EDT
  

• Women’s Lib Hasn’t Created Happiness

  From, of all places, the New York Times: American women are wealthier, healthier and better educated than they were 30 years ago. They’re more likely to work outside the home, and more likely to earn salaries comparable to men’s when they do. They can leave abusive marriages and sue [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2009, 10:38pm EDT
  

• “Pro-Choice” Nazis: No Free Choice on Birth Control

  From Pro-Life Wisconsin: State Budget Committee Rams Through Birth Control Mandates in Dark of Night
  
  Measures would force pharmacies to dispense contraceptives and private and public health plans to cover contraceptives
  
  In a bold move, Democrats on the state’s budget-writing committee inserted two controversial social policy items [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
  

• Cheney on the War on Terror -- Uncut and Uncensored

  You’ve seen the sound bites, and you’ve seen endless analysis. But an excellent use of the better part of an hour is to see Dick Cheney’s speech uncut.
  
  Compare this to President Teleprompter. It would be easy to say it’s style versus substance. But untimately, the sober recitation of [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2009, 10:32pm EDT
  

• Israel & the Palestinians: The Chimera of a “Two State Solution”

  Virtually everybody claims to want a “two state solution” in the Middle East -- the State of Israel living alongside an independent Palestinian State.
  
  This sounds reasonable. It sounds sensible. Indeed, it would be both things. Except for one thing. According to Jeff Jacoby: It isn’t going to [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2009, 11:10pm EDT
  

• A More Humane Alternative

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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 10:40pm EDT
  

• Some Wonderfully Cynical Quotes from H. L. Mencken

  Via an e-mail correspondent: A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
  
  A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
  
  A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
  
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 10:31pm EDT
  

• Blago Hair

  So far as we can tell, this is not a parody site, and will actually sell you the stuff.
  
  Just the look for guys who aspire to be corrupt Chicago politicians. [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2009, 11:13am EDT
  

• Keep Him Quiet

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  Posted: May 05, 2009, 9:33pm EDT
  

• Al Qaeda On 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

  How dare you try to cheat us out of the credit, spokesman says. [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
  

• The Atheist’s Moral Abyss

  From Dinesh D’Souza in Christianity Today. I write this fresh from debating bioethicist Peter Singer on “Can we be moral without God?” at Singer’s home campus, Princeton University. Singer is a mild-mannered fellow who speaks calmly and lucidly. Yet you wouldn’t have to read his work too long to [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:03pm EDT
  

• Racial Sleaze in Dallas

  We don’t frequently read Dallas publications, but we happened across one just today, and it contained an article about greedy black politicians playing the race card, all the while trying to line their pockets.
  
  It was really a racial protection racket.
  
  And the Dallas Morning News went [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
  

• Campus Indoctrination at Delaware

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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 2:49pm EDT
  

• Obama’s Illusion

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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 11:47am EDT
  

• Simon Harak: Leftist Marquette Faculty “Peace” Activist Against Military Robots

  Simon Harak is a hard left “peace activist” ensconced in Marquette’s Center for Peacemaking.
  
  In fact, his notion of “peace” is that America should never fight anybody. He has little bad to say about America’s enemies, and has even defended Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.
  
  He is [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 11:03am EDT
  

• Felons and the Right to Vote

  Tonight, in Cudahy Hall, Room 001 at 7:00 p.m., there is a presentation by Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project titled “Losing the Vote: Felony Disenfranchisement and American Democracy,”
  
  The Sentencing Project is a liberal operation that doesn’t like putting criminals in prison.
  
  Which is to say [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 2:32pm EDT
  

• The Real Threat

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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
  

• The “Torture” That Isn’t Torture

  From FrontPage Magazine, commentary on the recently released “torture” memos: [One of the Obama administration’s mistakes] was to endorse the view, promulgated by the Left, that the techniques described in the memos deserve to be called “torture.” Even a cursory examination indicates otherwise. Indeed, so far from being “brutal,” [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 11:33am EDT