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A big tip of the hat to Canadian free speech crusader Ezra Levant for bringing to notice this letter to the editor from an American university student at Southern Utah University.

In light of SUU officials plan to designate "Free Speech Zones" on campus, I thought I'd offer my assistance. Grab a map. OK, ready?

All right, you see that big area between Canada and Mexico, surrounded by lots of blue ink on the East and West? You see it?

There's your bloody Free Speech Zone.

Jeffrey Wilbur

Senior communication major from Bountiful

I don't know about you, but young Mr. Wilbur is certainly my kind of American -- and one whose view on the matter of freedom of speech exactly dovetails with my own. Here's hoping that there are many more like him in the rising generation, for if there are then our liberty will be secure.

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The current meme from the loony Left in this company is that those of us on the right are encouraging violence and murder with our dissent against the Obama Regime and our questioning of the intentions and policies of Barry Hussein and his merry band of socialists. And certainly any talk of the people rising up against a government that is out of control is presumed to be a call to overthrow the government by violent means -- not, of course, that such a course of action was a bad thing when engaged in by men like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and a host of others we call "Patriots" and "Founding Fathers".

Interestingly enough, those making such claims are the same folks who spent the last eight years heaping abuse upon President George W. Bush and undermining our nation's fight against the jihadi swine who want to destroy our nation. You know, the same people who claimed that their dissent was the highest form of patriotism -- but now label ours as treason.

The hypocrisy of these folks is pretty obvious -- but i somehow doubt that we will live to see the level of hypocrisy reached by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday, April 7.

And in Worsts: Glenn Beck tells viewers to rise up, take the country back, and defend their guns against the ban that is all in his head. So a psychotic shoots three policemen because he fears a gun ban, and Beck sees no connection between these things.

Got that -- Beck, who has repeatedly emphasized that what he is urging people to do is engage in peaceful political activity, is responsible for the deeds of someone who is psychotic. You see, in the world of Keith Olbermann it isn't what conservatives actually say that matters.

So tell me -- if Beck's words constitute incitement to murder, what would you say about this little bit from a past Olbermann show?

Click the picture and you'll see that it is a "humorous" attempt to play on the use of the word "rush" by a gun enthusiast at a shooting event. Or is it really a coded effort by Olbermann to incite the murder of America's top radio talker? Under the interpretation he puts on Glenn Beck's words, that case can certainly be made. Or would he argue that figurative language is somehow worse than actually depicting the attempted murder of another human being? We know the answer to that one,my friends.

And that, my friends, is but the latest act of Hypocrisy from Keith Olbermann -- the Worst Person In America!

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Which no doubt some weenie on the left will soon start calling this torture and a violation of international law.

During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the move South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan. He was also regularly depicted in a similar manner during the TV series.

I don't think this sort of thing really qualifies as torture -- but if it does, i for one want to shout "Hurrah!" After all, this is the same sick SOB who liked to order women raped in front of family members and ordered REAL torture of political and religious dissidents. That he might have been humiliated by being forced to see himself depicted as the gay love rof Satan seems pretty mild by comparison -- and certainly les than he deserved.

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According to Randi Rhodes, you bet they did.

BRIAN LAMB: Go back to the meeting, how long were you there?

RANDI RHODES: Where?

LAMB: With the Senators?

RHODES: I think they gave me an hour or so. And it was very – we ate lunch, which of course, I didn‘t eat, because I was terrified. But 30 Senators showed up. I was amazed. For me it was like, I kept saying, when I got on the air, I talked about it and I said it was like being at Walt Disney World. Do you ever got to like the good Disney hotels in Disney and you see your favorite characters? Like Mickey comes out and Donald comes out. I go, well I watch C-SPAN, so like these are my characters – these are my TV characters. And it was like, you know, here comes (INAUDIBLE). And you know, let‘s face it a lot of Senators aren't recognized by people.

I was going oh my God, that‘s (INAUDIBLE). Oh my God, that's Dick Durbin. Oh my god, that's Dorgan. Oh my God, that's Tom Daschle. Oh my god, and, you know, everybody knows Hillary, obviously, she was First Lady of the United States. But how many recognize Barbara Mikulski and know that she makes a mean crab cake.

You know, so it was fantastic. I was too nervous to eat. I guess they liked me. And so then they organized a lunch at Mary Landrieu's house. And I was invited to this lunch. And again, it was, you know, democrat senators with an interest in media and getting our message out. And they thought that – they had had 30 people that they had spoken two, and it came down to two that they really liked and thought could do it. And it was me and this guy at Schultz.

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Immigrants – at least the legal kind – are a great blessing to this country. They revitalize our nation from generation to generation, and enrich our nation in so many ways. The list of immigrants who have contributed so much to the United States is long and illustrious – it includes individuals like Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie, and Irving Berlin, just to name a few.

Over the course of more than two centuries, the countries of origin of immigrants have varied. Today it is individuals from Latin America who make up a large percentage of those becoming Americans.

Nearly half of the record-setting 1 million new U.S. citizens sworn in last year were Latino immigrants — a 95 percent increase among that ethnic group from the previous year, according to an analysis by an Hispanic advocacy organization.

Department of Homeland Security data shows the number of immigrants naturalized in the U.S. grew from about 660,000 in 2007 to more than 1 million in 2008 — an increase of roughly 58 percent. The Houston metropolitan area saw more than 28,000 naturalizations last year, an increase of roughly 54 percent from 2007.

Nationally, Latino naturalizations jumped 95 percent from about 237,000 in 2007 to 461,000 in 2008, according to the analysis released Tuesday by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. NALEO used data from the DHSÂ’ Office of Immigration Statistics, counting immigrants who hailed from predominantly Spanish-speaking countries as Latinos.

So let me reemphasize – I think this is great, and that it benefits our country in so many ways.

Now some of you may ask how I reconcile this view with my opposition to illegal immigration. Easy – it all boils down to welcoming those who follow the rules, not the race or ethnicity of the newcomers. After all, I work with many students who are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants from Latin America. So let me again offer a loud “hurrah” that we are bring into our nation so many wonderful new citizens who walk the same trail as so many of our ancestors.

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If you have a business, marketing is a very important thing for you to do. After all, you have got to get your name and image out there for the world to see. Large companies do this -- indeed, it is one of the ways tha they got to be large companies. After all, think about all the corporate logos you see branded on to people's clothing -- companies like Coke, John Deere, and so many others actually get people to pay them to advertise their brand! Now you may not be able to do so with your company, but you can certainly get some freebies made to promote yourself -- company shirts, caps and stickers -- and help your company grow. And one place you need to check out is fullcolorglossy.com, where they have gotten T-Shirt Printing down to an art.

Of course, Full Color Glossy Printing will print on almost anything you want -- t-shirts, hats, cards, etc. -- they can also print your business collateral and brochures, brochures, letterheads, business cards and so more. Again, it is all a part of your business strategy for marketing your company. So consider their Tshirt Printing and other services as a way of promoting your business in these difficult economic times.

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It all comes down, I suppose, to a matter of perspective. If, as did our Founders, one presumes that private property belongs to the individual, then one recognizes that government must have a compelling reason for interference with the fundamental right to the that property. On the other hand, if one presumes that the right to oneÂ’s property is subordinate to some pre-existing claim to that property by government, then any resistance to its confiscation by government is somehow immoral or unpatriotic. That was the argument by Joe Biden during this past fallÂ’s presidential campaign, and it is the argument today by the New York Times in todayÂ’s editorial about the estate tax.

Last week, as the unemployment rate hit a 25-year high and nearly one in 10 Americans was receiving food stamps, 10 Democrats in the Senate joined all 41 Republican senators to cut estate taxes for the wealthiest families. The provision would funnel an additional $91 billion over 10 years to the heirs of megafortunes, money that would otherwise have been paid in federal taxes or donated to charity.

With economic pain and suffering on the rise, how do the senators justify a big tax cut for multimillionaires? By asserting that an estate tax cut is just what struggling Americans need.

The response of the NYT editorialists to every argument made by proponents of cutting (and frankly, I believe the proper policy should be eliminating) the estate tax is those arguments are “swill”. But the real argument to be made on this one is that the estate tax should be cut or eliminated because the estates of the dead – no matter how rich they are – should not be looted by government bureaucrats. It is, dare I say it, the private property of the deceased and his/her heirs.

Look at the argument – the legislation “would funnel an additional $91 billion over 10 years to the heirs of megafortunes, money that would otherwise have been paid in federal taxes or donated to charity.” I call “Bullshit!” It would not funnel a penny of tax dollars to anyone – indeed, it would put an end to the government acting like the crew looting the possessions of the dead Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. But the editorial, couched in the rankest terms of class warfare, argues that allowing the families of the dead to keep their family property is somehow a raiding of the national coffers and a picking of the pockets of the poor. Again, I cry “Bullshit!”

The cash and properties in those estates have been taxed – indeed, they have probably been taxed more than once. The estate tax is simply the government taking one more bite at the apple on the grounds that “they have too much money”. Such a policy is, dare I say it, a fundamental attack on the very principles upon which our nation was founded. And even though I am one who has no prospects of becoming rich, nor of inheriting from some mega-rich relative (trust me, I’ve searched my family tree looking for a rich uncle or three), I do recognize the fundamental injustice of special taxes on people based upon their economic status (what of “equal protection of the law”, liberals?). Reducing or eliminating this ghoulish confiscation of assets is a therefore not only a good policy, it is the most moral policy.

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As many of you know, I am opposed to gay marriage. I believe it unnecessarily re-configures a long-standing social unit of our society in a way that is unnecessary and inappropriate. I’ve long supported amending the constitutions of the several states and of our federal republic to limit marriage to one man and one woman, and have supported any effort that would overturn unprincipled court decisions that take the power to define the institution from the people. It isn’t that I have a problem with homosexuals of either gender (ask my best friend, who is quite openly gay, as well as my closest lesbian friend) – rather it is that I am a traditionalist when it comes to the definition of the institution of marriage.

But the action of the Vermont legislature today in becoming the first state to legitimately choose to redefine marriage through the democratic process, is different.

Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature’s vote.

The Legislature voted Tuesday to override Gov. Jim DouglasÂ’ veto of a bill allowing gays and lesbians to marry. The vote was 23-5 to override in the state Senate and 100-49 to override in the House. Under Vermont law, two-thirds of each chamber had to vote for override.

I disagree with the decision of the Vermont legislature. I question whether or not the people of the state actually support this move, and would like to know more about what polling data shows. I would support an effort by the people of the state to undo the decision. But my hat is off to those who achieved success the right way in Vermont today. It is my hope that supporters of gay marriage in other states will emulate their example of using the democratic process rather than the judicial process to accomplish their goal. That stands in contrast to the method used in Iowa, and the refusal of pro-gay marriage legislators to allow the people of Iowa to decide the matter by amending the state constitution, which is a repudiation of the democratic process.

H/T Gay Patriot

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If you are thinking about planning some sort of special event, you must send out invitations to those you want to attend. And to be really honest about it, what would be nicer than printed invitations ? Whether you are planning a formal occasion like a wedding, or something less formal like a birthday party, beautifully printed invitations are sure to impress the recipients. You can even print up thank you notes to send out to those who have been kind enough to give you gifts. No matter what, VistaPrint is able to help you find the right materials based on your style and preferences.

Now I'll be honest -- there is an event coming up in my near future – the celebration of the return to our home following Hurricane Ike. After all, it has been some seven months since we evacuated, only to return to find our home severely damaged and in need of serious reconstruction work to make it livable again. So my invitation will most certainly include a graphic of a house – perhaps even a photo of our newly restored home – on the front. In addition, it will include such things as the date and time for our celebration. And I would certainly want to see if it could be done up on purple paper of some sort, since my darling wife is a lover of that color. Of course, I might not have charge of the design, so it might be different – you never know if my wife will have different ideas from me.

So anyway, VistaPrint is a great place for you to get invitations printed to your specifications. For that matter, if you need are in need of virtually any kind of printing services, you really need to check out VistaPrint first because they can usually offer you a deal that beats the competition.

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A few weeks ago, I was privileged to attend the funeral and burial of a fine and decent man whose life experience included serving as a crewman on a landing craft during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. I remember him speaking of his experiences that day, and of the men who he watched die that day seeking to liberate Europe. And while he was a Yellow Dog Democrat, I know that the words of President Reagan on the 40th anniversary of D-Day were quite moving to him.

That is how a real president -- a real patriot -- honors American fighting men who gave their lives for freedom.

And then there is Barack Obama.

White House officials travelled to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried. Among them is Theodore Roosevelt Jr the eldest son of the 26th US President.

French officials and senior American military officers walked with White House staff through the cemetery discussing how the two presidents might follow the same route. But even before their trip, the White House had decided that Mr Obama would not travel there this week.

"It wasn't going to happen," said an American official in Washington. "We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France was not on our agenda.

Got that – they went through the motions of discussing a visit to a cemetery full of our honored dead, but never seriously considered doing so. Utterly shameful.

H/T Debbie Schlussel

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Yep, Religion of Peace and all that stuff.

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Noor Husain, the father of a Muslim woman who eloped with a Christian man, led a mob of his neighbors and friends in an attack on his village's only church in Pakistan's Punjab province. After desecrating the church, the men forced their way into Christian homes, dragged out the women, and paraded them forcefully on the streets.

The assault, which occurred several months ago, so terrified the Christian community that 21 families fled, leaving only four Christian families who are still in the village.

"Petrified Christians locked their homes and fled to their relatives, living in other villages and cities, to save their lives," said Ashraf Masih, a Christian resident who has remained in the village.

Several Christians were injured, including two women whose teeth were broken.

I don’t think there is really much to add to this story, do you? After all, what we have here is a pogrom against a religious minority because a Muslim woman dared to exercise her free will by marrying a Christian. Such things are all too common in the Islamic world – but not in civilized nations.

H/T Gateway Pundit

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Are you considering cable? Well, if you live in the area served by Charter Communications, now might just be the time for you to act on those thoughts. They are offering boatloads of bargains and specials, including one that even includes all their many services. From time to time they have run contests in the past giving away such great prizes as an Xbox 360 or a Hybrid Car. Well guess what -- now they are giving you the chance to win a 22” flat screen HDTV each and every day in the entire month of April.

Charter Communications operates in 29 states. This Fortune 500 company wants to be the best and largest cable company in the world -- or at least the United States. And as an up-to-date tech company, they also offer such services as high speed Internet and telephone service. Their various service bundlest give you the very best price for their services, and beat out their competition. Oh, and about that TV a day thing -- Charter is also offering the chance to win a grand prize package that includes a 52” LCD flat screen HDTV, a Home Theater System, and one year of free Charter Digital Cable® service with HD programming. What a deal -- you just need to be a new or upgrading customer. So if you are in the Charter service area, now is definitely your time to act.

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The Left claims that the Right does – simply because we oppose gun control and support the Second Amendment.

On the other hand, the Left supports an actual cop killer – who lost another bid to get a retrial after some 28 years after he murdered a police officer in cold blood.

Death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal lost his bid for a new trial in the killing of a city police officer after the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not take up the case.

Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther and one-time radio reporter, had claimed prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering white Philadelphia police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.

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The 25-year-old patrolman had pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother on a darkened downtown street. Prosecutors say Abu-Jamal saw the traffic stop and shot Faulkner, who managed to shoot back. A wounded Abu-Jamal, his own gun lying nearby, was still at the scene when police arrived. Authorities considered the evidence against him overwhelming.

Who on the Left supports this cop-killer? YouÂ’ll find plenty of prominent liberals (and no significant conservatives) here. So remember which side really supports cop-killing.

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Are you looking for a career -- either your first or a new one -- that will continue to grow in the middle of our struggling economy? Well, consider this -- the IT sector is the fastest growing industry in the country today. But to become a part of it, you need training and the proper certifications, like A+ certification. Once you have A+ Certification, your opportunities for employment and advancement in the IT field increase dramatically. That's why it is a great certification for anyone looking to enter the world of information technology.

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Shortly before his execution, the condemned confessed to an additional killing that had been unsolved for nearly two decades.

Luis Cervantes Salazar was executed last month for the stabbing murder of a woman in October 1997. But shortly before his death, he was encouraged by his spiritual counselor to speak with Texas Rangers about other crimes he committed.

He confessed to the 1992 stabbing of a convenience store clerk in San Antonio, just an hour and a half before he was executed.

San Antonio police say his confession solved the murder of Melissa Morales. Salazar had not previously been considered a suspect.

My only problem with this is that we werenÂ’t told about this when the execution happened. After all, there was no reason to withhold the information from the public.

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As a teacher, I hear a lot from my students what sort of recreational activities they enjoy. Those are a wide and varied lot, but I do have one segment that is interested in role-playing games -- those involving cards, computers, or the internet. Well, recently I've heard a couple of them talking about a new game they came across called HeroBits, which they found at HeroBits.com.

I was intrigued, and so I visited the website. I was initially struck by the homage to the old trading card games that were in vogue when I first began teaching and which still have a following. Indeed, the site has even launched its own trading card games with which players will be able to amuse themselves offline every bit as much as they do online.

Of interest to me is the other aspect of the site, which profiles the trading card artists who design these cards. Now that is great -- the ability to become a part of the fandom of these talented artists. There are also forums where you can have discussions with other HeroBits players. Why don't you drop by the website now and see what they have to offer you in the way of entertainment and fun

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The facts of this case clearly support criminal charges. Whether they support a conviction will be for the jury to decide.

As Robert Tolan and his cousin approached the front door, officers, who erroneously had been advised Tolan was driving a stolen car, arrived and ordered the pair to the ground. Tolan family members said that as they attempted to tell officers about the mistake, police pushed the young manÂ’s mother against a wall.

Tolan attempted to rise to protest and was wounded as Cotton fired his weapon multiple times. Lawyers for Tolan, who is black, have argued that the shooting resulted from racial profiling by white law officers.

The problem is that there was never really any reason to suspect that Tolan was engaged in any criminal activity. He was just a black guy driving in a nice area in a nice car – must be a criminal. And having witnessed the unprovoked assault on his mother by a rogue cop, Tolan had the audacity to try to stand up – and was grievously wounded as the cop unloaded his gun into him. While I’ll be the first to admit that I have a pro-police bias (my brother is a cop), I can’t see any justification for the conduct of Sgt. Jeffery Cotton. If there is any, let him present it at trial.

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It certainly is for one.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the nonvoting D.C. delegate to the House who aspires to be its voting representative, has made clear that she regards questions of constitutionality as irrelevant and that she thinks members of the House and Senate do, too. "I don't think members are in the least bit affected in their votes on the question of its constitutionality," she said just last week. "People vote their politics in the House and in the Senate."

Tell me, Eleanor, on what other points do you find the Constitution irrelevant? There is plenty of good legal argumentation against the constitutionality of the DC Representation bill, and not much in its favor. Indeed, the Attorney General had to reject the best legal advice of the top lawyers in the Justice Department in order to get an opinion from another part of the Justice Department that said, in effect, “well, we can defend it if we have to.” What other parts of the Constitution will the jettison if it suits their politics?

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As much as I hate ticket scalpers, I donÂ’t see this as an issue that Congress should be dealing with during a time of major economic upheaval.

Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday unveiled a proposal aimed at giving fans a better chance to buy hot concert tickets at face value before ticket resellers scoop them up and raise the prices.

The proposed legislation would set a two-day waiting period from when tickets go on sale through normal channels before a ticket reseller can buy the tickets to put on the secondary market, Schumer, a New York Democrat, said in a statement.

"The bottom line is we need to create a fair system where fans get first crack at good seats at a reasonable price," Schumer said.

Really, Chuckles? Fair as defined by who? Oh, yeah – by you and your constituents who couldn’t get ticket to see an over-the-hill rocker whose best work is at least two decades behind him.

But more to the point – don’t you have something more important to do during the Obama Economic Crisis?

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It all depends on how you look at it. Kim Jong Il claims it is a great success. Others call it a failure, since the satellite did not reach orbit. And it certainly highlights the fecklessness of ObamaÂ’s foreign policy. But was the launch really a failure?

North Korea's rocket may have fallen into the sea, but military experts cautioned Monday against calling it a complete failure, pointing out that it traveled twice as far as any missile the country has launched.

Although the distance was still far short of showing North Korea could reach U.S. territory, it rattled the North's neighbors and countries around the globe, with the U.S. and its allies pushing for quick punishment at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting held hours after the launch.

The launch, which demonstrated progress, is a particularly worrying development for a belligerent country that says it has nuclear weapons and once threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire."

What the NorKs demonstrated was their ability to launch missiles that threaten most of Asia – including American military forces and strategic allies. What’s more, it is precisely the sort of test we would have expected, with precisely the sort of trajectory, if they were doing work on an ICBM rather than trying to launch a satellite. Think about that – and ask yourself if you really feel all that secure with the US merely seeking a UN condemnation of the NorK regime. Did Obama just fail that test that Joe Biden warned us would come early in his administration?

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The Knights Templar have always been a fascinating subject for me. Among the reasons for that fascination has been the speculation that the Shroud of Turin – believed by many to be the burial shroud of Christ – was once in their possession, and may even have been the idol that the Knights were accused of venerating when the order was suppressed. I don’t know whether or not that story is true, but we now know that the Shroud was once in the possession of the Templars.

Medieval knights hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, the Vatican said yesterday in an announcement that appeared to solve the mystery of the relicÂ’s missing years.
The Knights Templar, an order which was suppressed and disbanded for alleged heresy, took care of the linen cloth, which bears the image of a man with a beard, long hair and the wounds of crucifixion, according to Vatican researchers.
The Shroud, which is kept in the royal chapel of Turin Cathedral, has long been revered as the shroud in which Jesus was buried, although the image only appeared clearly in 1898 when a photographer developed a negative.
Barbara Frale, a researcher in the Vatican Secret Archives, said the Shroud had disappeared in the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, and did not surface again until the middle of the fourteenth century. Writing in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Dr Frale said its fate in those years had always puzzled historians.
However her study of the trial of the Knights Templar had brought to light a document in which Arnaut Sabbatier, a young Frenchman who entered the order in 1287, testified that as part of his initiation he was taken to “a secret place to which only the brothers of the Temple had access”. There he was shown “a long linen cloth on which was impressed the figure of a man” and instructed to venerate the image by kissing its feet three times.

We now can date the Shroud back to the 1200s, significantly before the date that radiocarbon testing had placed it. And we now know that some of what the Templars were accused of was clearly unjust. So what we have here is a mystery and a history that trumps any novel – take that, Dan Brown!

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That whole death thing is such a distracting bummer – and the resurrection is a bunch of crap that distracts from the really important stuff. At least that is the argument of Erik Reece, a guest writer for the Washington Post, who goes even further in urging that Christians reject faith for a radical social agenda instead.

The fact is, American Christianity has historically been focused so obsessively on the Nicene Creed -- which says Jesus was the son of God, who was crucified for our sins and rose from the grave three days later -- that it never made much room for the actual teachings of this radical Jewish street preacher.

This is why I'm against Easter. It celebrates the death of Jesus nearly to the exclusion of his life. If the Easter miracle can save us from this life, then why bother with the harder work of enacting the kingdom of God here? It is, after all, much harder.

Which brings me back to that word faith. I believe it plays such a disproportionate role in mainstream American Christianity, be it in the rock and roll mega-churches or the humbler places were I worshipped as a child, because it is a belief in what one cannot see. But that belief -- that faith in a salvational Christ -- is what will guarantee everlasting life. But when such faith is lost, as in my case, what am I left with?
I'm left with the teachings of Jesus -- words so radical, they got him killed, words so radical, they might still bring about the end of empire and the beginning of the kingdom of God.

Of course, Reece ignores a central problem with his thesis. If, indeed, the resurrection did not happen and Jesus was merely a radical preacher who got killed for his trouble, who cares what he said? Absent the Gospel message of the birth, death, and resurrection of the Word Made Flesh, there really isn’t any “there” there. Jesus then becomes but one more exponent of a radical utopianism who was scorned and rejected by the establishment of his day. – and what makes his words any more worth following than those of Buddha, Marx, or L. Ron Hubbard? Indeed, it is only the great miracle celebrated by Christians the world over that gives the obscure preacher from Nazareth an eternal significance that makes him and his words worthy of veneration two millennia after those events.

My question – why would the Washington Post pick this time of the year for this message? What other religion would the paper seek to denigrate and deny during its holiest season? Indeed, isn’t the decision a telling one about the bias of the paper and its religion editors, Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn?

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Indeed, Richard Poplawski is a member of the neo-Nazi racist group Stormfront, which is rejected by conservatives. He is also a devotee of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who is beloved of as many loons on the Left as he is loons on the Right.

His online profile suggests someone at once lonely and seething. He wrote of burning the backs of both of his hands, the first time with a cigarette, the second time for symmetry. He subscribed to conspiracy theories and, by January 2007, was posting photographs of his tattoos on white supremacist Web site Stormfront. Among his ambitions: “to accumulate enough ‘I punched that [expletive] so hard’ stories to match my old man.”

So let’s see – we have a mentally disturbed, socially isolated racist loon engaging in precisely the sort of anti-social activity that such folks have engaged in from time immemorial. Some of his beliefs track with mainstream conservatism, but more of it tracks with fringe beliefs that are rejected by mainstream conservatives. For the Left to try to claim otherwise is to attempt to perpetrate the “big lie” in order to delegitimize the beliefs of a sizeable portion of the American people AND portions of the US Constitution. Indeed, the next step will be to demand government action to silence certain “dangerous” points of view that they claim are not in the best interest of the nation to allow to be expressed. Indeed, by repeatedly claiming that “Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh” and other mainstream commentators and politicians are responsible for the crimes of Poplawski, they are engaged in rhetorical excesses that exceed anything in the words of those who they are demonizing. After all, not one of the targeted conservatives has called for acts of violence against political opponents, while the same cannot be said of many of their critics on the Left.

H/T LGF, Don Surber

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Now I’ve long conceded that most Muslims in this country are decent folks – but have been adamant that there is something in the religion of Islam that we should be wary of. It is a violent strain that comes to the fore again and again in the form of terror attacks around the world and terror plots exposed around our country. Islamic groups claim that anyone who is suspicious of what goes on in the Muslim community – especially in mosques – is motivated by bias and prejudice, because such things don’t represent the true face of Islam. But what are we to make of this?

Two young Americans who left their homes to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia held a rare “press conference” in southern Somalia on Sunday, saying they want to be killed "for the sake of God," according to a U.S. law enforcement official and a report posted on a Somali news Web site.

For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area and elsewhere in the United States who traveled to war-torn Somalia to join the terrorist group al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.

Last month, a source familiar with the FBI investigation told FOX News that "several" of the men had returned to the United States, while others “are still there [in Somalia]." Today is the first time any of these men have spoken publicly.

"We came from the U.S. with a good life and a good education, but we came to fight alongside our brothers of al-Shabaab … to be killed for the sake of God,” one man said at the press conference, as translated by Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minn.

Yep – more jihadis among us.

Where is the indoctrination of such values taking place? The most obvious place is in the mosques of America – even if only a minority of them. So while Muslim groups complain of surveillance activities taking place in mosques, I urge that such activities be stepped-up. After all, mosques are public places, where the public is freely invited. For agents to listen to sermons preached there is not a violation of any right, any more than an agent listening to a sermon at St. Miscellaneous Catholic Church or Holy Roller Worship Center violates any right. After all, these are things that are open to the public, and so there is no expectation of privacy and no need for a warrant for law enforcement to sit and listen to what is said.

And after all, we know that incitement to jihad is happening in the Islamic community. Keeping an ear open for incitement to such criminality is only prudent

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ThatÂ’s the only conclusion we can draw from these statistics provided by the Houston Chronicle regarding the effects of the Obama Stimulus Plan.

• • Most Texans’ paychecks will be a little fatter starting this month as the Making Work Pay tax credit kicks in and employers reduce their payroll tax withholdings by about $13 a week.

• • Texas’ jobless are now receiving an extra $25 a week in their benefits as mandated by Congress, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.

• • Food stamp recipients soon will get about $38 a month more to spend on necessities, according to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

And before you feel all warm and fuzzy over Barry Hussein’s plan to let you keep enough of your earnings to take a family of four to McDonald’s once a week, consider this – at the end of the year, you will likely be paying that same cash to the government. You see, you didn’t get a tax reduction – all that this represents is a delay in you having to turn the cash over to Timothy “Taxes for thee but not for me” Geithner. So expect a tax bill this time next year if you are a productive American in exchange for your $50 a month increase in take-home pay. On the other hand, the non-productive will come out with about $140 extra in benefits extorted from the productive.

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Maybe, if someone had taken the time and had the initiative to report this to the proper authorities.

Kevin Greene, a former coworker at the vacuum plant, recalled asking him if he liked the New York Yankees baseball team. “No,” Voong replied. “I don’t like that team. I don’t like America. America sucks.” Another former employee said that Voong “kept to himself but made some off-the-wall comments like he wanted to kill the president”.

Hello! When someone starts talking about shooting the president, pick the phone up and call the cops -- or better yet, call the Secret Service. Don't assume that he is just blowing off steam or expressing some sort of dissent -- report him to the authorities. That is a line you don't let anyone cross -- whether the president in question is named George Bush or Barack Obama. In this case, doing so would have prevented a serious tragedy.

In a related note, Michelle Malkin notes that the anti-gun Left is already at work trying to blame any and all conservatives for the crimes of Jiverly Voong.

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In debt? Trying to figure out how to get it all paid off? Not sure where to turn -- especially if a personal loan may not be an option for you due to the debt you have? Maybe it is time to consider a different alternative for dealing with your credit card debt.

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You folks know my views on Barack Obama -- probably a nice guy in person, but not someone who I am inclined to support politically. But I do have to agree with the decision of one drugstore chain to ban the sale of this product.

It isn't about politics. It isn't about race. It is just plain about good taste -- or lack thereof in the case of this product. What more needs be said?

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I have made it really clear on this site moreethan once that I have little sympathy for sex offenders and don't believe that they have any right to privacy. Parents and teachers really have an obligation to find out who such folks are and where thy live so as to protect the young people in our care. After all, we saw here in Houston a few years back that even the nice upstanding guy with a daily show on the radio might be the sort to expose himself to little girls -- and I'm sad to say that I've even had former students convicted of sex offenses involving younger relatives. It is incumbent upon us to keep track of such menaces, especially since they can come into your neighborhood (or be convicted and registered) at any time.

Did you know that it is possible get a Sex Offenders Report by typing in your zip code on a website? Tracksexoffenders.net is such a site that will show you all the registered sex offenders in your area and offer you pertinent information about their offenses. That information can help you to be forewarned of problems and forewarned is forearmed. Maybe we can't stop every crime, but perhaps we can stop one or two from being committed against those near and dear to us.

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Whatever will Barack Hussein Obama have to say about these evil capitalists exploiting the working class?

The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe unless labor unions agree to concessions like pay cuts and the cessation of pension contributions, according to a person briefed on the talks.

The company is looking for $20 million in savings from The Globe, which has already gone through several rounds of deep cost-cutting and staff reductions. The company does not report figures by newspaper, but executives have acknowledged that the Globe lost tens of millions of dollars last year.

The threat to close The Globe was first reported by The Globe on Friday evening on its Web site, Boston.com. The site quoted the leaders of two of the unions describing a meeting Thursday at which the company delivered the ultimatum.

Will we see special legislation to punish NYT corporate execs for their actions? Will we see efforts by the federal government out the failing liberal rag that may be shut down? And will the editorial staff of the New York Times condemn the culture of greed in their own corporate boardroom -- or are those simply reserved for WalMart and bond traders?

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With the economic difficulties that exist in the US and around the world today, it is no surprise that people are worried about getting the best deal on everything they buy. That is even, perhaps especially, true of those who do any amount of shopping online. After all, we have all spent hours visiting different websites before we make that purchase, hoping that when we finally check out at the end of the process that we have really gotten the best deal. But is there a place where we can find those prices without all the work? Would it be possible for me to know that my price on a particular Digital Camera is the best one out there before I actually make the purchase? And what about online coupons and discount codes that might save a few (or more than a few) bucks on the total? Thanks to plaza101.com, you can feel secure that you are getting a good deal, because they offer both price comparison and coupons that will help you see a lower total at check out time. You can even read reviews and share your opinion about products with other users of the site, sort of social network shopping. So if you are looking to save, drop by and see what they have to offer you.

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I've expressed this view a hundred times on this blog, noting that accepting the right of someone to hold a certain belief or behave in a certain manner is the essence of tolerance, not blithely holding all opinions, beliefs, and actions to be morally equal. I wish, though, that I had written this.

Freedom of thought and freedom of expression are essential in the pursuit of reason. It is reason that will lead us to truth, and the pursuit of truth has been the driving force behind progress since the Enlightenment. We cannot afford to abandon these principles now.

People are so afraid of saying the wrong thing that we have blundered into a state of what you could call valuephobia. But modern, tolerant and secular society does not have to be a valueless society. Tolerance is not the same as surrender. Although we tolerate the views and ideas of others, we do not have to accept the creed of moral equivalence. Just because a state does not have a formal affinity to a particular religion does not mean it should avoid a robust system of values. For the most part, our concept of right and wrong is in tune with our basic instincts, and our understanding of the consequences of our actions. These values are codified by religions, not invented by them. There are other, different, non- religious values which are part of our heritage - the concept of looking after those who cannot look after themselves, of hard work, perseverance and saving for a rainy day. States cannot operate without values, and the seemingly all-pervasive fear of causing offence needs to be balanced by the benefits of clear guidance on what is desirable behaviour.

Indeed, we encounter much too much of this very sort of stuff today. Too often we see expressed in our public dialogue the notion that the only thing that is absolutely morally wrong is believing and stating that something is absolutely morally wrong. In the name of not imposing religious values we have seen values that are held by the overwhelming majority or Americans stripped from our laws in the name of a "tolerance" that will tolerate anything but the views of that majority. When will we recognize that the celebration of diversity that so many insist is a part of tolerance also requires a healthy respect for the opinions, values, and beliefs of those who constitute the majority rather than merely those of the minority?

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There might be some real violence and persecution of the BahaÂ’is then.

Dozens of Muslim villagers have attacked the homes of members of the minority Baha'i religion in southern Egypt, hurling firebombs and denouncing them as "enemies of God," human rights groups said Thursday.
The attacks began Saturday after a prominent Egyptian media commentator denounced a Baha'i activist in a television appearance as an "apostate" and called for her to be killed.

The Baha'i religion was founded in the 1860s by a Persian nobleman, Baha'u'llah, whom the faithful regard as the most recent in a line of prophets that included Buddha, Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad. Muslims reject the faith because they believe Muhammad was God's final prophet, and Baha'is have been persecuted in the Middle East.

Not only that, but the good peaceful Muslim police didn’t want to interfere with all the good peaceful Muslims who were attacking religious minorities. After all, the Baha’is are heretics and apostates in the eyes of good peaceful Muslims – and such folks really do bring such violence upon themselves in the eyes of good peaceful Muslims.

Could you imagine what would have happened, though, if Islam were not a religion that respects religious freedom and urges peaceful behavior in its followers?

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I’ll be the first to say that the comment isn’t funny and isn’t appropriate – but the response is way over the top, perhaps indicating serious emotional instability on the part of Terry McAuliffe.

During a recent appearance on behalf of Bob McDonnell — the Republican candidate for governor — Huckabee wisecracked that if McDonnell's supporters bump into someone who isn't planning on voting for the Republican, they should "let the air out of their tires and do not let them out of their driveway on election day."

The joke is a Huckabee favorite: he recited it countless times at campaign stops nationwide during his failed bid to win the Republican nomination in 2007 and 2008.

Nevertheless, McAuliffe — who made more than a few surrogate appearances of his own on behalf of Bill and Hillary Clinton — is accusing of Huckabee of inciting "voter suppression."

"Let's be clear," he said in a statement. "There are no jokes to be made about denying people the right to vote in this country. It's not a laughing matter. This is a right that people fought and died for, so as public figures, we must be sure that we are setting the standard."

McAuliffe, who has made a point of highlighting his creation of a voting rights institute when he led the DNC, accused McDonnell of "standing by silently as Mike Huckabee encourages his supporters to suppress the vote."

Oh come on – like anyone really believed that was anything more than a lame attempt at humor that we’ve been hearing for a couple of years out of Huckabee. But more to the point, it isn’t Republicans who are documented as engaging precisely the tactics Huckabee joked about.

IÂ’ll side with the Huckster on this one.

“As someone who served as a Governor for 10 years, I can say if these are the type of things Terry McAuliffe worries about and make him break down and cry, then he won’t last 10 days as Governor much less four years and he doesn’t deserve the people of Virginia’s vote.”

H/T Hot Air

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I’ll be the first to say that the comment isn’t funny and isn’t appropriate – but the response is way over the top, perhaps indicating serious emotional instability on the part of Terry McAuliffe.

During a recent appearance on behalf of Bob McDonnell — the Republican candidate for governor — Huckabee wisecracked that if McDonnell's supporters bump into someone who isn't planning on voting for the Republican, they should "let the air out of their tires and do not let them out of their driveway on election day."

The joke is a Huckabee favorite: he recited it countless times at campaign stops nationwide during his failed bid to win the Republican nomination in 2007 and 2008.

Nevertheless, McAuliffe — who made more than a few surrogate appearances of his own on behalf of Bill and Hillary Clinton — is accusing of Huckabee of inciting "voter suppression."

"Let's be clear," he said in a statement. "There are no jokes to be made about denying people the right to vote in this country. It's not a laughing matter. This is a right that people fought and died for, so as public figures, we must be sure that we are setting the standard."

McAuliffe, who has made a point of highlighting his creation of a voting rights institute when he led the DNC, accused McDonnell of "standing by silently as Mike Huckabee encourages his supporters to suppress the vote."

Oh come on – like anyone really believed that was anything more than a lame attempt at humor that we’ve been hearing for a couple of years out of Huckabee. But more to the point, it isn’t Republicans who are documented as engaging precisely the tactics Huckabee joked about.

IÂ’ll side with the Huckster on this one.

“As someone who served as a Governor for 10 years, I can say if these are the type of things Terry McAuliffe worries about and make him break down and cry, then he won’t last 10 days as Governor much less four years and he doesn’t deserve the people of Virginia’s vote.”

H/T Hot Air

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Public official uses taxpayer funds to pay illegal aliens for to clean her house. Criminal charges ensue.

A six-count federal indictment against Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy is only the "tip of the iceberg," law enforcement officials said.

FBI agents arrested the embattled elected official and her husband at their Weslaco home Thursday morning, alleging they paid two women - both of them illegal immigrants - to work as servants using taxpayer funds.

Prosecutors accuse the pair of women of providing child care and housekeeping services to Handy's family while collecting county paychecks under assumed identities over a period of five years.

But authorities close to the case said their initial probe into the 52-year-old commissioner's hiring practices has since spawned separate investigations into allegations of witness tampering, bid-rigging and kickbacks involving county contracts.

Further state and federal indictments are expected against the commissioner and other alleged accomplices, they said.

Many further details follow in a rather complete article on the situation in Hidalgo County. But oddly enough, one thing is missing from the piece. No where is Handy’s political party mentioneed, despite the fact that she is a prominent member of a major political party. And what would that party affiliation be? A little check on the matter shows that it starts “D” and ends with “emocrat”. I wonder – why the omission?

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Well, the new roof is on the house, which makes it one more sign that my wife and I are rapidly approaching the day when we will be back in our house after teh trials and travails that followed our evacuation for Hurricane Ike. You don't know how good that makes me feel to type those words, because to me the new roof is really a symbol that the end of our project is near. After all, a good roof over one's head really symbolizes that one is safe and secure in so many ways.

I was lucky -- my contractor for all the repairs does roofs as a part of his business. But what if you are not doing a complete restoration following a disaster? Where do you find a well-qualified roofer who can take care of your roofing needs? If you are lucky, you know somebody who has had a good experience with a roofer. Maybe you can respond to an ad somewhere and find someone good. But maybe you should consider looking at a directory of roofers like this one that will help you find a good Indianapolis roofer. The site will connect you with various roofers who can give you bids for the work you need done -- and also offers you advice on what questions to ask before you accept a bid.

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The bill they have passed in Colorado is shocking enough.

A proposal to grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants passed out of a Colorado state Senate committee this week after Democrats moved up a vote on the bill to coincide with a Republican opponent's absence from the state on a family emergency.

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Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter has said he will sign the bill, which would give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants who have attended a Colorado high school for at least three years. The students must also attend college within one year of graduation or earning their GED.

On the other hand, legal immigrants and US citizens who are not from Colorado will pay out of state tuition while these immigration criminals get rewarded for their ability to evade the law for a sufficient period of time.

But what is even more disgusting is the parliamentary stunt pulled to pass the bill out of committee.

Republican state Sen. Ted Harvey's father-in-law has Alzheimer's disease and his health began deteriorating so rapidly early this week that Mr. Harvey was forced to take a few days off to transport the ailing man from Florida to Colorado.

Even so, Mr. Harvey had planned to return to the state legislature in time for Friday's Appropriations Committee vote on Senate Bill 170, the in-state tuition bill. He had also planned to vote against it, which would have resulted in a 5-5 tie that would have killed the legislation.

Instead, the committee's Democratic chairman, state Sen. Abel Tapia, seized the opportunity and rescheduled the vote for Wednesday. Without Mr. Harvey, the bill passed 5-4 and now heads to the Senate floor.

Talk about your seedy political gamesmanship – make sure an opponent of the bill is unavailable to vote so that it can be passed. In this case it was clearly dishonorable to move the vote up. The US Congress has long had a practice called “pairing” to avoid such situations – when a critical piece of legislation is before the body and a situation like the one faced by Sen. Harvey arises, another member of the body who would have otherwise voted the opposite way abstains from the vote in order to avoid taking unfair advantage of the personal crisis. Would that the dishonorable Albert Tapia had done the same – or simply have had the decency to hold the vote when it was previously scheduled.

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