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> Pope Benedict XVI said Friday he had opened the process for the sainthood of Pope John Paul II, overriding the usual five-year waiting period following the death of a possible candidate. > Link [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=753802].

No home should be without one:

Excellent review of two books about the population implosion: Fewer by Ben J. Wattenberg and The Empty Cradle by Phillip Longman. Link [http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2327/pub_detail.asp]. Excerpts: > Longman writes as a progressive worried that only "fundamentalists" will have children in the

Blogging could be light today. Eric is undertaking special operations in Nigeria to smuggle millions of dollars from their resource-rich land and stashing the money into U.S. savings accounts. Contrary to popular belief, such operations can't happen over "the wire." You have to do it

> A California man has sued the Lost Coast Brewery in Humboldt, claiming that a label on its Indica India Pale Ale offends him and Hindus worldwide. > The label shows elephant-headed Ganesh, god of wisdom and remover of obstacles, holding a beer in one of his four hands, and

Mark Krikorian on ethnic jokes: > In Armenia they tell Kurdish jokes, which were like our Polish jokes ”“ about dim-witted dullards. I would tell people that in America people (used to) tell Polish jokes, and they were amazed, because they saw Poles as tall, blond, sophisticated paragons of European-ness ”“ go

Smokin' Joe Tremblay [http://onnothing.blogspot.com/] sent this one along. Kinda neat: Link [http://www.thebricktestament.com/].

We like Pat Buchanan. For the most part, he plays conservatism like it was meant to be played, at least by Catholics. Not sure why, but we're intrigued to learn that he's friends with Matt Drudge: Link [http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_05_08_corner-archive.

A federal judge has knocked down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage. When is Congress going to step in and enact a defense of marriage law and make it non-reviewable by the federal courts (at least give it a shot and see what happens--U.S. Const., Article III, Section

And they're organizing a boycott against a handful of big charities: > Smoking rights groups, bar owners and Libertarian political parties are taking aim at some major charities. > They say the charities support smoking bans that threaten civil rights and small business. > The groups in nine