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Blog watch: The Washington Note

In a letter to a friend recently, I countered the saw of “history is written by the victors” with “history is written by the aggressive.” Steve Clemons has a good example of that. He tells the story of to men in Japan. Masaru Tamamoto — editor of an important on-line magazine, JIIA Commentary published by [...]

Why I am not a Christian, part XXXIII

Under the headline, Jewish Family “Forced to Move” Over School Lawsuit, Richard Bartholomew tells of one family’s travails in Delaware. Read the whole post and check the links. Here’s the lede: Back in 2004, the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ (based at Dr D. James Kennedy’s Coral Ridge Ministries) praised the efforts of a [...]

Le Spin

Spin is the ability to tell the story your way, using adjectives and adverbs in new and novel ways to obscure the truth and here is a good example: In a White House that had virtually forgotten what good news looks like, the past few weeks have been refreshing. A Republican won a much-watched special [...]

Everything I need to learn, I learned from my kids, part XXXXV

I took Bookzilla and JMan to the Space Needle on Sunday. The miracle of being able to see for miles was lost on them, but not on me. If I ever get into the habit of using mind altering substances, I want to take them up there. The insignificance of a single person is very [...]