Monthly Archives: April 2011

Working Hard, Working Smart

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Bradlaugh

Mark Krikorian and I have been singled (doubled?) out for a sneer from AEI’s Nick Schultz. Are our heads exploding (he wants to know) at the news that Mexicans lead the world in “total minutes worked, paid and unpaid, per … Continue reading →

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Shepard Fairey: I see, I want, I take

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art just opened what it bills as the nation’s first museum show dedicated to graffiti, Art in the Streets.  In an article and a review, I explore the shameless hypocrisy on the part of MOCA’s director … Continue reading →

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Your Tax Dollars at Work

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the New York Times: In the Hasidic enclave of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, there are many things that women can’t or just don’t do: Be counted as one of the 10 people needed to make up a minyan, or prayer … Continue reading →

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No Double Standards Here, Not At All

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-Posted on the Corner: Via the Daily Mail: An electrician faces the sack for displaying a small palm cross on the dashboard of his company van. Former soldier Colin Atkinson has been summoned to a disciplinary hearing by the giant … Continue reading →

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A Culture of Life?

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

We could debate the International Criminal Court at some other time (I’m no fan, to put it mildly) and, indeed, the rights and wrongs of the Balkan wars, but the last sentence in this extract from a Guardian account of … Continue reading →

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Theocrats at Play

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Religion Dispatches On November 2, 2009, five Catholic activists — one nun, two priests, and two laypeople, all age sixty or above — cut through a series of chain link and barbed wire fences surrounding Naval Base Kitsap in … Continue reading →

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Bravo to Eric Holder!

Posted on April 16, 2011 by David Hume

I hadn’t expected to type such a title. A fan of Mr. Holder, I am not. If there is one issue that the some elements on the Right get as regulatory-obsessive as Henry Waxman it is pornography. Obviously there is … Continue reading →

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No Contest

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Rev. Denise Giardina of Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Charleston, WV, has come out with a snide little sermon “matching” the views of a writer (Ayn Rand) against those of a largely legendary figure (Jesus), one of His followers (St. … Continue reading →

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Templeton Prize

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Bradlaugh

[Cross-posted from The Corner at NRO] Astrophysicist Sir Martin Rees, who has a walk-on part in We Are Doomed (and who is properly written of as “Lord Rees,” though nobody seems to bother any more) has been awarded the Templeton … Continue reading →

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Fiscal priorities, never mind

Posted on April 10, 2011 by David Hume

Congressional Republicans may have been willing to sell social conservatives down the river, but not so the Republican party of Tennessee. Creationism Gains Ground in Tennessee: Tennessee House Bill 368, the creationist friendly legislation that we have previously covered on … Continue reading →

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