Eric Scheske

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Danish Pastries

We can snicker too much, afterÂ ridiculously trying to renameÂ fries "freedom fries":Â > Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."Bakeries across the capital were

Where Were the Rocks and Fires?

Back in July 2001 (pre 9/11), South Park portrayed Muhammad in its cartoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends]. Why no hubbub back then? South Park was surely much more widely broadcast that those Danish cartoons. What's going on? Were Muslims in the Middle East

Grease

Find the worst example, then make a lawsuit out of it, hoping to establish precedent. That's the ACLU's way. Find the worst example, then make a feature story out of it, hoping to establish the ridiculousness of the other side. That's the New York

New CNBC

> News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said he plans to launch a rival to business news channel CNBC by the end of 2006, according to an article in the February 13 issue of Newsweek magazine [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060205/bs_nm/media_newscorp_murdoch_dc]. The Left&

Democrats Courting Catholics

"Please join the party of licentious sexual activity and efforts to protect it [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/01/31/democrats_courting_catholics/] ."

Must Admit Taliban

From London Times: > A university Christian Union has been suspended and had its bank account frozen after refusing to open its membership to people of all religions [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2008732,00.html].

Cuomo Not a Homo

I guess I was still recovering from my outing at the drinking club Tuesday night. I missed this hilarious NYC dispute: > Former Mayor Ed Koch slammed Andrew Cuomo last night, contending the attorney general hopeful misled Manhattan gay activists by denying that his father's 1977 mayoral campaign

Commentary on Canadian Election

The brilliant David Warren [http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?artID=562]. Excerpt: > [T]he Conservatives did not win a single seat in Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver -- our three largest cities. Let me enlarge on remarks I have made in many previous columns, applying the famous Red State/

Hating Religion

A secularist takes apart the secularists's assault on Christianity [http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAF37.htm]. The article is somewhat condescending to Christian thinking and a little lengthy for my tastes, but it has a lot of good stuff. Excerpts: > First there was the controversy provoked by

Big v. Little

When government acts, it looks at the big picture. Usually, government looks at sophisticated studies that consider harm and benefit and things like that. Sometimes, it looks at polls and what people want as a whole. No matter what, the government always tries to consider the big picture. It'