A reader writes:
I’m no Mitt Romney fan at all, but, as an active Mormon who is reasonably well-versed in Church Doctrine, Romney isn’t back-pedaling here. Mormons believe that Jesus upon his return will both return to the Mount of Olives and come to the New Jerusalem in America. We don’t see these two positions as contradictory. Here is a good summation posted on a Mormon blog this morning.
This really is Yglesias-bait, but it’s pretty stunning to me that the NCAA won’t allow reporters to live-blog games.
It’s the category that can get lost in the faith-non-faith debate that is now raging. John Wilkins tries to revive it by re-posting Bertrand Russell’s classic, "What is an Agnostic?" Money quote:
I think also that all who called themselves Christians in an earlier time, and a great majority of those who do so at the present day, would consider that belief in God and immortality is essential to a Christian. On these grounds, I should not call myself a Christian, and I should say that an agnostic cannot be a Christian. But, if the word "Christianity" comes to be generally used to mean merely a kind of morality, then it will certainly be possible for an agnostic to be a Christian.
Larry Moran insists he can be both an atheist and an agnostic. Moran’s ammunition? More Russell.
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Yes, the military was seriously considering a project for a bomb that could turn enemy soldiers gay, and thereby presumably make them a less lethal foe. This was in 1994. And we wonder why the top brass couldn’t cope with openly gay servicemembers?
A reprieve for a teen sent to jail for ten years for consensual oral sex with another teen:
"If this court or any court cannot recognize the injustice of what has occurred here, then our court system has lost sight of the goal our judicial system has always strived to accomplish … justice being served in a fair and equal manner," the judge wrote.
Amen. The now-twenty-one year old has already served three years for getting a hummer.
The Republican establishment blogs – i.e. Pajamas Media – are really are rattled by Ron Paul. But their attempt to rig the online polls to keep him down, if not out, have backfired:
It was all a very weird, very uneccessary lesson in how trying to control an online community eventually brings on extinction, or at least dwindling popularity.
Mitt Romney, for one.
A Pole wakes from a coma to find the world that Reagan, Thatcher, Wojtila and Solidarity created. John Fund remembers the Gipper’s role here – and the miracle of 1989.
Caddrick and Chaddsity Smith look on by a small swimming pool in the B.W. Cooper housing projects June 10, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is lacking in recreational areas. Before Hurricane Katrina, B.W. Cooper held about 1,000 families and was the city’s largest housing project, but it is now more than 80 percent empty. By Mario Tama/Getty.
