Large amounts of private donations are pouring in from United States citizens to help in the relief effort for the tsunami victims.

Gut-wrenching images on television of dead children, mourning survivors and inundated villages have triggered an extraordinary response among charitable organizations, faith-based groups, businesses and communities of U.S.-based immigrants [...]

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Ann Coulter has a rundown of the high points and low points of 2004. As usual, she pulls no punches.
The single biggest event of 2004 was the Election Day exit poll, which, like John Steinbeck’s “The Short Reign of Pippin IV,” made John Kerry the president for a few moments. But in [...]

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Sex Advice for Men.

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Another senior member of al Qaeda has been captured in Baghdad
U.S.-led forces in Iraq have captured a senior member of the al Qaeda-linked network led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a raid in Baghdad, the Iraqi government said on Thursday.
It said Fadil Hussain Ahmed al-Kurdi was captured along [...]

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The Master on Susan Sontag.
Scroll down until you see the 12/28/04 entry.
In one particularly notorious passage, she writes that “the truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white [...]

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Listening to Al Rantel’s show this evening, I heard an interview with David Horowitz. (I didn’t catch the name of the person sitting in for Al. Sorry.)
A caller asked the question, “If America had been invaded and taken over by a more advanced country, wouldn’t Americans be fighting back pretty much the same way the [...]

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2005 Predictions
I predict that in 2005 Iran will figure prominently in the news-probably first or second quarter of ‘05. It is time to confront Iran about it’s nuclear ambitions. A nuclear Iran would be the greatest threat to world stability. A nuclear Iran could sink the world into an abyss that it could not crawl [...]

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MY CHRISTMAS REVISITED
Two interesting emails from two different readers provoked by my Christmas-day postings:
“I enjoyed the account of your Christmas Day and wanted to contribute to the Scots/English debate, I am half-and-half with a with a Jewish great-grandfather. My grandparents came to London from Glasgow a hundred years ago and they were keen, lifelong Conservatives, [...]

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Thought For The Day
I wonder if all those Canadian teen-agers who thought that the United States was the greatest force for evil in the world still hold the same opinion as American aid starts pourring into the areas that have been ravaged by that awful Tsunami?
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One For The Road…
The trouble with Susan Sontag, along with many other people who like to consider themselves intellectuals, artists and benefactors of humanity today, is that they are what the French call a “poseur”.
In several of the obituaries [...]

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MY CHRISTMAS REVISITED
Two interesting emails from two different readers provoked by my Christmas-day postings:
“I enjoyed the account of your Christmas Day and wanted to contribute to the Scots/English debate, I am half-and-half with a with a Jewish great-grandfather. My grandparents came to London from Glasgow a hundred years ago and they were keen, lifelong Conservatives, [...]

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Chad, the Elder, at Fraters Libertas, imagines a conversation at the Minn. Star Tribune in which people are trying to find a way to blame the tsunami on Bush.
Could we blame it on nuclear tests? How about the infrasound waves the Navy’s been testing? Could global warming have changed the way the oceans [...]

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Duane Gish, of the Creation Research Society has a very effective tactic for debates on evolution. He will bring up a whole laundry list of “problems” with evolution. When you have a fixed-bandwidth situation, either a time limit or a word count, this technique gives you quite an advantage. You can raise [...]

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OK, it’s boosting his book. But it links through my associates’ link.
PressThink is thinking about blogs and their effect on news. Here’s what they think:
News turns from a lecture to a conversation. “Newspaper people (especially) still have the mindset of putting out the edition and then they’re done with it,” complains Glenn Reynolds. [...]

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The Gift that Keeps on Giving, Part II.
Bush wins! Again. This is really getting old; Ohio just finished its recount and surprise, surprise—Bush beat Kerry. Oh, but he shaved 318 votes off the lead… of 118,775.
The Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates asked for the recount and raised the $113,600 required under state law for [...]

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A fellow who left a nasty comment at Patterico’s blog thought he was safely anonymous. He just found out he’s not.
It’s old advice ndash; never write anything in a fanzine you wouldn’t want on the front page of the Times. Now that fanzines are on computer and can be read by anyone on [...]

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Brett Favre has finally decided to once and for all correct the spelling of his last name.

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Mahmoud Abbas, pretty much a shoo- in to become the next head of the Palestinian Authority, states that the Palestinians will not make peace with Israel as long as Israel keeps it’s West Bank security fence up. So, until Israel tears down the fence that helps protect her from Palestinian suicide bombers, the Palestinians will [...]

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The house cleaning at the Central Intellegence Agency continues. Hey, maybe after all the dead wood is removed, the CIA will actually be good for something other than leaking stuff to the press.
A senior intelligence officer at the CIA has resigned, the sixth high-ranking official to leave since the appointment of a new spy chief. [...]

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