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Egg on Our Face

Our most-recent pro-condom teacher story involved a private school teacher. Indeed, a teacher at a Catholic school. Link [http://www.cbaalbany.org/]. It's the first time that any of these stories (that we've seen) have involved a private school teacher, though the person who noticed our

Funny Confederate Poll

Rabbi Shmuley at Beliefnet wants a ban on Confederate symbols. Link [http://beliefnet.com/story/171/story_17164_1.html]. At the right sidebar, Beliefnet is running a poll on the issue. Here are the results, as of 2:00 this afternoon: > Following Germany's ban on Nazi

Kiosk Reminder

Just a reminder: The TDE Kiosk has been up for almost two weeks now. There are some interesting posts. As a new feature, the Kiosk needs publicity. These reminder notices will continue sporadically for about a month.

T-Shirts

Perhaps you've seen them on the Internet: advertisements featuring attractive young women wearing T-shirts for conservatives. We find many of them tiresome, but this one cracked us up, so we're passing it along:

Even the Frogs Are Showing Guts

> France has expelled two radical Islamist leaders in the wake of the London bombings and plans to round up and send home up to two dozen more by the end of the month, the interior ministry said yesterday. > Underlining the difference in approach between London and Paris, a

Abortion Plus One Day?

Heck, the way Germany is going, this women will be their Rosa Parks: > German police are holding a woman suspected of manslaughter after the bodies of nine new-born babies were found buried in a garden. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4737641.stm].

We're Back

Well, we're back from Alpena, Michigan. We've been re-reading our posts from the past week, and we noticed an assortment of typos and bad writing (we hope someone noticed). Our laptop's screen is small, and we couldn't print out and proof/edit

Ten Favorites

Jeffrey Tucker at Lew Rockwell wrote an entertaining column about the ten people he'd like to meet. A list that includes Ludwig von Mises, St. Cecilia, and Bette Davis is worth consulting. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker56.html]. Excerpt: > Mother Cabrini (1850”“1917). Shorter than

Weekly Features Post

Introductory Words: We apologize up front for an abbreviated Weekly Features Post. If you've been logging on regularly, you know that we've been vacationing in Alpena, Michigan, at Eric Scheske's family cottage on Lake Huron. Wi-Fi has allowed us to blog a little, but

To Heck with the Horseless Carriage . . .

. . . we need a cow-less one: > California's San Joaquin Valley for some time has had the dirtiest air in the country. Monday, officials said gases from ruminating dairy cows, not exhaust from cars, are the region's biggest single source of a chief smog-forming pollutant. > Every