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Get Religion has an interesting post [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=1375] about a WaPo article that features former Senator John Danforth, a Republican who would like to destroy the Religious Right. It's an interesting little piece and shows WaPo in all its leftist glory. Excerpt from article

Ouch, long night and longer morning. My children's parochial school held its annual Mardi Gras Auction Party last night: lots of neat auction items, food, cash bar (inexpensive lubricants to catalyze bidding), DJ, door prizes. I was in charge of setting up the bar (requiring me to pick

> A change in the sexual behavior of young people in Zimbabwe probably caused a sharp decline in HIV virus infections in the south African country, according to a study published in the United States. > A reduction in casual sex among experienced men and women, and the delay of

> At the annual convention of the Christian Booksellers Association, retailers continued to fret over competition from Wal-Mart and big bookstore chains. > Association membership peaked at around 3,000 stores in the early 1990s but now totals less than 2,300. CBA said 337 retailers closed last year. Link

From Britain [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006050466,00.html]: > Two lesbian soldiers have become the first Army gays to get wed, The Sun can reveal. > Privates Sonya Gould, 19, and Vanessa Haydock, 18, tied the knot under new civil laws. > Vanessa, based at Hullavington,

The link in the previous post, incidentally, is to a column entitled, "Threaten One, Intimidate a Million." The inference is obvious: The West's "multi-cultural" acceptance of Islam is threatening everyone's civil rights. My reader in the last post wanted to be kept

Slippers with headlights [http://www.comforthouse.com/comfort/slippers.html]. I scoffed at first, but I could use a pair. With seven kids, I trip over stuff all the time in the dark. Heck, last year, I punctured my heel on a wooden peg. Hurt pretty and had to get

The erudite and always-reliable James Schall writes about the new encyclical [http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/schall_encyclical_jan06.asp]. Excerpt: > One cannot help but be amused that Benedict cites the Emperor Julian the Apostate, the infamous persecutor of Christians, with some approval. Julian, it seems, had a rather

At least they're not being forced to drink from the slippers: > Men caught boozing by their wives in an Indian village now face being slapped across the face by their wives' slippers. > A committee of women at Japalli, in Andhra Pradesh, introduced the punishment in