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Blacks are coming over to the Republican Party in greater numbers. They tend to support vouchers and faith-based initiatives, and they oppose gay marriage. The WSJ has an article about one particularly-flamboyant dreadlocked man, Ted Hayes, that we'd love to meet. Link [http://www.opinionjournal.com/cc/?id=

There's a fairly entertaining and different kind of essay at Lew Rockwell today about the politics of Rube Goldberg. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker52.html]. Here's an excerpt, setting forth Goldberg's distrust of what Russell Kirk referred to as "defecated rationality&

We heard those words about, oh, thirty times a day while growing up, often after being in the house for only thirty seconds. Turns out it was probably good instruction. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/garden/28kids.html?]. Excerpt: > Doctors, teachers, therapists and even coaches

Sex is too often associated with drinking. It's part of the "wild and get drunk" stereotype that leads to all sorts of laborious restrictions on drinking that affect us responsible drunks. One of the worst examples of sex and drinking: the spiking of girl's

The final Star Wars movie is poised to burst on the nation. It might be time to consider, again, the religion of Star Wars. We like Terry Mattingly's concise overview. Link [http://tmatt.gospelcom.net/column/1997/01/29/]. Excerpt: > The faith in "Star Wars"

> A television, stereo, and VCR were stolen over the weekend from a house in the small town of Kremlin. > Undersheriff Jerry Niles said the woman who lives at the house called deputies Monday night to say that someone broke into her house again while she was away, returned

"Direct TV announced it's coming out with satellite as an option for the Cadillac Escalade. The Escalades have incredible stereos in them, refrigerators and now satellite TV. Do you realize they're just one bathroom away from being a mobile home?"

Do you have any books about decorating refrigerator boxes? > On Wednesday, Houston's city council passed a series of library regulations that some say are an attempt to discourage homeless people from visiting the public buildings. > Library officials said people have been using their facilities as temporary

A 15-year-old boy killed his mother, stabbing her 111 times. An argument had erupted over a play gun, porn, and a girlfriend. The family lives in Rochester Hills, an upscale suburb of Detroit. The mother was divorced from the boy's father. Here's a further description of

No uncertainty about the existence of extraterrestrials, insulting relativity toward the Bible, a nauseating smugness that can't fathom that it might be wrong about the big issues even though it relies on no authority but its own musings: > "I have to certainly believe what my heart