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I was reading an article by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post on how the Church of Scientology is hiring reporters to investigate the St. Petersburg Tmes and the second page of the article shared space with something that I found to be a little more interesting…. (you have to scroll down to get to… Continue reading

Via Bookworm Room, here is a survey of what (to those folks who read this blog) should be common knowledge.  Try it and let me know how you did in the comments.  I got 100% right, which for me is a rarity.  I don’t know if it’s good or bad–maybe I just read WAY too… Continue reading

Apparently they found the ‘missing’ police reports at the Braintree, MA police station (they are here).  One of the things that’s really chapping my butt about the reporting on this crime (and there are several things) is that they keep harping on the fact that she’s a Harvard grad at a podunk little nowhere school… Continue reading

Via Mr. B.  a post at The Liberty Zone regarding patriotism through the eyes of someone who lived under a socialist government (USSR).  My favorite parts: Rights are simultaneous. Everyone has the same rights, and the exercise of those rights should never interfere with others’ right to do the same.   They exist independently. The… Continue reading

Welcome to all the visitors from Home on the Range!  I will hereinafter refer to this as the MausersandMuffins-Tide.  Similar to an Instalanche but for folks who like food and firearms. Continuing the decorating meme— In houses like ours, especially with no kids around, we tend to have items laying around that might be considered… Continue reading

Via Insty (ht, Mr. B):  A school superintendent in New Jersey Rhode Island  asked her union high school teachers to do what teachers in my time did anyway apparently voluntarily:  adding 25 minutes to the school day, providing tutoring on a rotating schedule before and after school, eating lunch with students once a week, submitting… Continue reading

There was a fire in Cicero last night and seven people died and three firefighters were wounded battling the four alarm blaze.  It could have been avoided.  In 1991, the city of Cicero tried to tighten up its occupancy limits and was sued by the federal government (who won) because the federal government felt that… Continue reading

Via Aaron Gee at American Thinker, a posting about a California police officer who ‘joked’ on Facebook that Second Amendment supporters/advocates should be shot.  Reasoning such as this is why citizens should be armed.  If we are unable to defend ourselves from those ‘trained’ to be armed, then we have made ourselves automatic victims.  From… Continue reading

These are some culled from the link in my previous post: Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you. Anon After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better… Continue reading

I was doing a bit of research on Valentine’s Day since it’s a ‘holiday’ that I’ve never really understood or celebrated.  I always figured why? since it was the day of a massacre and none of the original saints named Valentine were associated with love (Chaucer made that connection between the holiday and love in… Continue reading