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Eric Scheske

Porn Generation Interview

David Horowitz's Front Page has an interview with Ben Shapiro, author of Porn Generation. It's pretty lengthy, but worth a click. Link [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18529]. Excerpt: > Watching enough of this stuff does change kids' views and affect their

The E Meter

Everything and more that you ever wanted to know about Scientology's e-meter: > [T]he 'e-meter,' or 'Electro-psychometer,' a “pastoral counseling device” used by the Church of Scientology [is used] to detect, among other things, the emotional state and thoughts of

Strangling Russia

Russia needs lots of small businesses to open shop. Unfortunately, small businesses are opened by people without much money who can't afford to pay a lot of legal fees to figure out bureaucratic nightmares. But that's the situation in Russia. A maze of regulation is strangling

Brews You Can Use

We've been meaning to get back to New York: > [A bill in New York] would create a tourism mechanism similar to the New York State Wine Trail, a state program promoting tourism and marketing at state wineries."We have over 50 breweries in New York state

Close Relationship Ain't Good Enough

Suzanne Fields has written a great op-ed that covers the basic issue in the marriage debates: Good of the Offspring v. Close Relationship. Link [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/sf20050623.shtml]. Excerpt: > In "close relationship" law there's a moral equivalence between marriage and

Monkey Art

Paintings by Congo the chimpanzee sold at auction for more than $25,000 on Monday. Link [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHIMPANZEE_ART?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-06-20-16-47-57] . Excerpt: > The three abstract, tempera paintings were auctioned

Ships Passing in the Night

Get Religion has a good short piece that gives an example of the gay marriage opponents talking past each other. It discusses an 8,000-word pro-gay article in The New York Times Magazine by Russell Shorto. Link [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=868]. Excerpt: > Shorto writes, for

Internet Porn Recedes?

> Amended Section 2257 recordkeeping regulations [went] into effect at midnight [Wednesday] tonight. The federal law requires website owners to keep records documenting, among other things, that "every performer portrayed in a visual depiction of actual sexually explicit conduct" is over the age of 18. . . > Section 2257

More on .XXX

This is interesting. We haven't taken a position on the .XXX domain, but we were inclined to approve of it since the First Amendment Absolutists tend to disapprove of it (they fear that sites will be forced to register as .XXX, even though the sites themselves don'

Young Marx

Interesting piece at Tech Central Station, A Tale of Two Prophet: Karl Marx and Brigham Young. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/062405C.html]. Excerpt: > Brigham Young believed that man was put on earth to do hard physical work with his hands, and he believed this was the only sure