Incorporate, advises commenter Benjamin, at Carpe Diem, where the talk is the Americans With Disabilities Act, now 20 years old, as foolish, expensive, and dictatorial, thanks, says Benjamin, to judges and lawyers with “no concept [of] costs, or the costs they are imposing on society”: [Y]ou can almost always avoid any personal liability by forming a [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Eighty and out, says Big O.
Get outta here, Charlie! President Barack Obama has kept mum on the fate of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) for days — but he tells CBS News that it’s time for the embattled 80-year-old former Ways and Means Chairman to end his career “with dignity.” Why, besides “troubling” allegations? [H]e’s somebody who’s at the end of [...]
Kenneth Howell back at work
Alliance Defense Fund, one. Hate speech, nothing. An adjunct religion instructor barred from teaching by the University of Illinois after defending the Roman Catholic stance on homosexuality has been invited back to teach this fall. Adjunct associate professor Kenneth Howell was reinstated on Thursday — a day after the deadline when his lawyers said they [...]
The king of trite
We pick on Obama for his statist policies, but do we pick on him for his regular use of bromides and nostrums? We should. Just today on The View, where a gaggle of admirers were joined by their usual conservative Hasselbeck, he came up with these that flash across his TelePrompter mind: So why did [...]
Interesting question
Caller to Rush Limbaugh, noting that Obama had said Afr-Ams are mongrels, asked if now it’s safe to say, “The son of a bitch has to go” and would it not make a good campaign slogan. Tags: Obama+mongrels
What to do with priest abusers
“Blessed are the invisible for they remind us not of the potential for cruelty in all of us,” says Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea in NC Reporter. She presents an argument against “amputating” clerical abusers. Out of sight, we lack them as there-but-for-the-grace-of-God examples. We also cut loose predators into the general population: Recidivism is a problem [...]
Barack, we hardly knew you . . .
Two Dem pollsters in WSJ: During the election campaign, Barack Obama sought to appeal to the best instincts of the electorate, to a post-partisan sentiment that he said would reinvigorate our democracy. He ran on a platform of reconciliation—of getting beyond “old labels” of right and left, red and blue states, and forging compromises based [...]
Wodehouse!
Just posted at Not for Attribution: Latin Mass Mag also goes small-c catholic: If you haven’t read P.G. Wodehouse, you have no business saying you have lived . . . . Tags: Latin+Mass+Magazine, P.G.+Wodehouse
They know what sells
Gang of leakers going for broke: WikiLeaks, frustrated at the lack of splash of recent leaks on its whistle-blowing website, has rolled the dice to try to raise its profile by teaming up with news organizations in its latest dump of classified documents. And they know the expose of Chinese torture of Tibetans, N. Korean, [...]
Come out, get out, says vicariate
Local RC authorities in Rome distance selves from recently outed same-sex acting-out priests: Rome, July 23 – Catholic Church authorities in Rome on Friday urged gay priests to come out after an Italian newsweekly ran an expose’ claiming many of the clerics in the capital led a “double life”. “No one is forcing them to [...]
