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The War on Christmas: Redux
George Bailey, Bill O’Reilly, Henry Potter, Sean Hannity, Scrooge, Michelle Malkin, Micheal Savage, and Frank Capra on the War on Christmas
The long long war on Christmas has been co-opted by infidels. In the early days of this epic conflict, this war could have been described as a minor league guerrilla operation. The body counts were low, [...]
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Thomas Sowell is a syndicated columnist and senior fellow for the conservative Hoover Institution. Thomas Sowell’s recent article on the Valerie Plame affair http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/03/09/meatgrinder_politics proves there is a sound reason to have people pass a bar exam before they are authorized to practice law.
Essentially, Sowell wrongly asserts that because Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald learned early on that Armitage [...]
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With all due respect to recent comments by David Gelernter and Larry C. Johnson & their opposing views on the torture debate: both miss the point.
Johnson claims the limited value torture brings is offset by the committed enemies it creates and the limited quality of the information gathered by such methods. Gelernter believes that [...]
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Socrates and the Law
The ultimate convergence involving politics, history, and the law happened in Ancient Greece when Socrates was legally tried and convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens, arguing against the established gods of the state, and for creating new gods.
In reality, as most people knew, he was merely on the wrong side of politics and the postions of those [...]
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