Category: Blog

NAACP: Living Off Its Past

I recommend an essay by Ward Connerly on the NAACP on National Review Online Monday. A brief excerpt: Historically, the NAACP has represented black people who were confronted with the worst kind of racial oppression imaginable: prohibited from eating at ...
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Mamamontezz’s Open Letter to the Troops

Mamamontezz's Mental Rumpus Room blog has posted the following call to action after reading Joe Roche's post about the impact of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 on our troops: A Call to Action: It is up to each of us to ...
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Stem Cell Research: Legal, But You Wouldn’t Know It

The Notes & Musings blog has a post about stem cell research that provides an excellent quick summary of one side of the debate in less than 250 words. If you don't understand where Bush is coming from on this ...
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Mooreumetaries

A note from Ed Haislmaier: In his e-mail post "Fahrenheit 9/11 and Its Impact on Military Morale, by a Soldier," Joe Roche asks rhetorically: I wonder how damaging and shocking a Moore project would have been in the 1940s making ...
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Ron Reagan’s Cognitive Dissonance

Ronald Prescott Reagan has this to say in the current Esquire magazine about the sentiment within the crowds that honored former President Reagan during recent memorial events: "Misty-eyed with nostalgia, people set aside old political gripes for a few days ...
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Michael Moore and Military Morale: Soldier’s Essay Strikes a Chord

The last few days I have been doing a lot more blog reading than blog writing, particularly those blogs (69 by informal count) who have reprinted or commented upon Joe Roche's e-mail blog post about the impact of Michael Moore's ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 and Its Impact on Military Morale, by a Soldier

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Army Spc. Joe Roche has perhaps the harshest words yet for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, describing its impact on the morale of our troops deployed overseas as "devastating." In typical Joe fashion, he did something about the matter. He made ...
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Favorite Blogs… How About Favorite Posts?

Some bloggers like to list their favorite blogs. That can be interesting, certainly, but the list I'd like to see is a list of all-time favorite posts (written by others). It would be quite enjoyable to read the posts on ...
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Markets Protecting the Environment

The Commons Blog (Markets Protecting the Environment) has a beautiful new design (if you think I am exaggerating, check it out). I admit to a little bias, because I post there, but The Commons is the brainchild of blogger Iain ...
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Carbon Dioxide Nonsense

The silly lawsuit by eight state attorneys general to force plants in other states to limit carbon dioxide emissions brings to mind this paper by physicist Gerald Marsh: "Nonsense By Any Other Name: Calling Carbon Dioxide A Pollutant Doesn't Make ...
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