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Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus

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An amazing story from Avi Issacharov, one of Haaretz’s best reporters: The son of one of the West Bank’s most notorious Hamas leaders has converted to Christianity.

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Cistercians were always a bunch of slackers.

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Keeping you informed about the important trends of the day.

*Universalist Unitarian Obamaists: This denomination believes there are other politicians besides Obama, but they enjoy the fellowship of the weekly campaign events.  They are the least reliable Obamaists, as they aren’t certain if they will vote for Obama, or if he even exists at all.

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For a brief period of time, MySpace was the site where everyone kept their profile and managed their friendships. But soon, the service began to attract fake profiles, the wrong kind of white people, and struggling musicians. In real world terms, these three developments would be equivalent to a check cashing store, a TGIFridays, and a housing project. All which strike fear in the hearts of white people.

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I got your Religion of Peace, right here.

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The only principles in the Democrat party are tactical.

Clive Crook, who writes for the Financial Times (think Wall Street Journal but run by socialists), gets exposed to the real America.

As a Brit, of course, I was conditioned to expect that the first time I saw an unholstered pistol would be when a mugger stuck one in my face.

A sad commentary on British life that is, sadly, all too accurate. But wait, there’s more.

I don’t think the Democratic nominee would have felt at home with this crowd. I heard several references to Comrade Obama, and saw one button (which I coveted) that said, “I am a BITTER gun-owner.” They seemed to me an affable, friendly and very courteous bunch (well, you would be, wouldn’t you?). I don’t think you could mix with the show’s visitors for more than five minutes without thinking it was nonsense to attribute their interest in guns to bitterness or disappointment or some form of social pathology. But of course there is a political dimension. Aside from other motivations–sport, self-defence–the gun-show universe is about pride, self-reliance, and resentment at being bossed around. Distinctively American traits, wouldn’t you say? Best in moderation, no doubt–but still, where would the country be without those attitudes? I may get thrown out of Georgetown for this, but I say, good for them.

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Perhaps we could do that with the guys down in Gitmo. Shave ‘em bare. For health reasons, of course.

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Compare and contrast those in political office. Why is Ted Stevens still in office? Why is William “Cold Cash” Jefferson not only in office but filling important committe slots?

Would we really be worse off if the military ran the country?

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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I’ve always found one to be a full-time occupation.

Yaacov ben Moshe is always worth reading.

Tyranny- It Always Quickens the Progressive Pulse

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A Prince George’s County, Maryland SWAT team raided the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo last night, shooting and killing his two black labs in the process.

We really need to be doing something about this sort of thing.

Mark Krikorian does a job that American media won’t do.

Megan McArdle gives us some very interesting graphs about who’s producing and who’s not.

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Forensic examination of the crew’s skulls, which were found next the 16th century wreck in The Solent, has revealed that Henry VIII’s flagship was mainly crewed by foreign sailors, thought to be either mercenaries or Spanish prisoners of war.

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Megan McArdle is really a girl after all.

Is it possible to be a vegan without judging other people?

Possible, yes; likely, no. Most vegans are like anti-smokers and atheists — it’s not enough that they’re living on a higher moral plane than you are, it’s required that you be forced to admit it. They’re a lot like Muslims that way.

And somebody ought to reveal to them that “vegan” is somebody from the star Vega. People who only eat vegetables are herbivores. You know, like cows.

Megan McArdle fisks a bunch of lefty professors at Chicago whose undies are in a wad over possibly being associated with such a heinous figure as Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman.

Translated, “when we go to fashionable lefty cocktail parties in Venezuela, it’s embarrassing to admit who signs our paychecks.”

John Tierney is on the case.

For most of the year, it is the duty of the press to scour the known universe looking for ways to ruin your day. The more fear, guilt or angst a news story induces, the better. But with August upon us, perhaps you’re in the mood for a break, so I’ve rounded up a list of 10 things not to worry about on your vacation.

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It all started with Herodotus.

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A boon to college students everywhere.

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Perhaps the Obama campaign will overdose the American public on the race-hustlers that have been riding the Democrat party for the last 40 years.

Or perhaps not. Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to cheat an honest man; the government does it on a daily basis.

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One heck of a recession we’ve got here, huh? In fact, consumer spending and personal income are also up.

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I think this one’s a keeper. About time, too.

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A lot of people don’t seem to realize that.

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We have the technology.

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Of course, if a Democrat President had done something like that, he’d be an automatic candidate for a Nobel Prize. Since it’s Bush, it won’t even be mentioned by the Usual Suspects.

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Can’t say that I’d spend my money that way, but hey….

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I give up — why does this deserve taxpayer funding? Last I head, the Internet was full of companies making good money providing services.

I guess all you have to do is call it a “project” and allege some vague public benefit and they’ll give you money. A sweet deal.

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Sharper than a serpent’s tooth….

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There you have it — American Government 101. We know what we need to do, but one side won’t do it because (a) it would mean that admitting that they were wrong and (b) the people who hired them wouldn’t stand for it.

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In the real world, however, most non-Muslims have no real idea what Islam’s texts contain, or the nature of its commandments and prohibitions, or the inculcated view that there is a state of permanent war (though not always open warfare) between Believers and Infidels, and that it is the duty of Believers to work, sometimes as a collective, sometimes individually, using whatever instruments are available and effective, to remove all obstacles to the spread and then to the dominance of Islam. In that world, that is, the real world in which we now live, use of the term “Islamism” is unhelpful. It can even, as it sows further confusion, be downright dangerous.

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Amazing how that works. Guess the Kumbaya juice has lost it’s magic power.

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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That would be the biggest Darwin Award in human history.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

The Hog tackles the environment, and throws it for a loss.

People used to die from the flu, by the millions. And the bird flu scare reminded us that it can happen again. Now that I think about it, millions of people have died from malaria, which is preventable, because we haven’t used DDT responsibly. It’s funny; the hippies call the earth–an inanimate object–”Gaia,” and they claim it’s our mother, and that it wants to take care of us. The truth is that the earth has been working hard to kill us since the dawn of time, and it succeeds in numbers that would make Hitler and Stalin and Mao weep with admiration. Does your mother want you dead? Mine never did. I’d like to hear Gaia’s loving explanation for Katrina or the Dust Bowl or locusts or cretinism. And how about radon? The earth doesn’t love us, and it doesn’t take care of us. The earth is our enemy, and we continue to exist because we made it our slave. We survive because we fight the earth every day.

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And there was much rejoicing. Break out the jiffy-pop.

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We are, each year, treated to national media reports on race relations in this country and they invariably discuss white America coming to terms with other races in this country. Very, very rarely does the media ever report on other races coming to terms with white America.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in Massachusetts.