Archive for December, 2005

I asked the Cape Town father, perched on the Provincial Administration Building on Christmas Day in the photo above, about missing his children. I wanted to know what drives a man to risk his life, limb and liberty in this type of public demonstration. “It is a wave of incredible pain that gets me,”... »

FRANCE VERSUS THE USA French democracy unable to cope with its Muslims: “This is the end of the French political system that has prevailed since de Gaulle came to power and established the Fifth Republic in 1958,” said Guilhou. “The middle classes are becoming impoverished, and they fear for the future of their children.... »

by Nicholas Stix UPI has just reported that a New York City police officer who was being beaten by a man in the subway was saved by two men who happened to be in the vicinity. There was no word yet on the sex or ethnicity of the officer-victim, or on the ethnicities of the... »

It’s 2006 and the Sky is Falling ……………………NOT ! The Media has been all-a-twitter over the following “breathtaking” news items: 1. The NSA (National Security Agency) actually keeps track of who tries to access its website, and, if its doesn’t like the looks of a “visitor”, it brazenly takes a closer look ! Egad ! ,... »

FRANCE VERSUS THE USA French democracy unable to cope with its Muslims: “This is the end of the French political system that has prevailed since de Gaulle came to power and established the Fifth Republic in 1958,” said Guilhou. “The middle classes are becoming impoverished, and they fear for the future of their children.... »

Tonite, on this secular New Years Eve, before my wife and I go to see Comedian Lisa Lampenelli, we will light our Hanukkah candles and remember that even though all Jews don’t agree on everything, we are still Jews. My wife and I argue over politics constantly, rarely ever agreeing on anything, but amongst our... »

by Jim Kouri, CPP As if taking a page out of Steven Spielberg’s screenplay for his new motion picture “Munich,” several Holocaust survivors shocked many when they admitted they formed a special death squad to hunt down Nazi war criminals after World War II. They conceded it was a group effort less concerned with bringing... »

CSAP 510 Apologetics Research and Writing Fall 2005 10-31-05 In this paper, I will consider some of the more prevalent challenges to absolute truth. First, I will examine Louis Pojman’s essay Discovering Right and Wrong. I will show that Pojman’s critique of ethical objectivism is moral relativism in disguise. I will also show how the... »

But before I wish my brothers a Happy New Year, I would like to pass along two amusung headlines on current magazines. One is from “Men’s Health” which advertises “25 Short-Ccuts to Total Happiness!” Not “How to Find Total Happiness” or “25 Ways to Find Total Happiness”but “25... »

(Although I wrote this article a couple of years ago, it is still as true today as it was back then). ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The first couple of days in the new year have taken on huge significance for me during the last 19- plus years. To understand why, you would really have to... »

Oh, would I love to see this. I’m sure Trump could give that weasel Eliot Spitzer a good run for the money. Donald Trump is considering running for governor, a leading Republican said Friday. Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on Thursday suggested that a big-name candidate could be flirting with entering the 2006 contest.... »

The Islamic Jihad suicide bomber, who recently killed a member of the Israeli Defense Forces, was originally planning on blowing up a children’s Hanukkah celebration.(via Jihad Watch) The Islamic Jihad militant group claimed responsibility Friday for a suicide bombing in the West Bank that killed one soldier and two other Palestinians. Islamic Jihad activists in the... »

The Feds are investigating how friends of a prominent fundraiser for Illinois Governor Rod Blaogojevich managed to obtain leases for restaurants at Illinois highway toll plazas. Needless to say, having a restaurant in such a locale can be quite profitable. Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas looking at how restaurants with connections to a Gov. Blagojevich... »

Celebrating Mozart’s life by wearing a musical bra seems a bit odd. One of the first Mozart Year visitors to Salzburg will be Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, who will be attending a brainstorming session entitled The Sound of Europe. Whether the accomplished pianist will be impressed by Salzburg’s avalanche of Mozart kitsch... »

I love the last sentence of this report: “Would you pay $175 for a pound of coffee beans which had passed through the backside of a furry mammal in Indonesia? . . . Kopi Luwak beans from Indonesia are rare and expensive, thanks to a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the... »

In The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, the White Witch forbids the celebration of Christmas in part because she thinks the celebration is a waste of resources. Likewise, in Politically Correct Holiday Stories by James Finn Garner, Scrooge is as much a New Age acetic as he is... »

Well, 2005 is just about history, but it brought some fun moments as far as my columns, stories, essays, and other stuff is concerned. Of course, there was the release of my book late this summer, but my main focus has always been on my weekly column, along with some newspaper op-eds and other... »

As I was watching that titanic 50-38 defensive struggle between UCLA and Northwestern yesterday, I realized that the stupid anti-male TV ads are alive and well. Of course there’s the cell-phone ad of the old white guy “sticking it to himself” but there is a new genre of black, asian and now Indian men having... »

Unusual wedding: British woman marries her beloved dolphin in Eilat ceremony »

The Black Congressional Caucus is sitting on over $400,000 of donated money! Money donated for Black victims of hurricane Katrina. To start, could you imagine the uproar if David Duke was collecting money for just white victims of Katrina? Oh my G-d! Jesse Jackson would be screaming into every single microphone he could wrap his... »