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Did you hear about how a sharia court punished a nine-year-old girl for being raped by her stepfather? That could never happen in a civilized religion. Or could it?
Archive for March, 2009
March 6th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
Brute force succeeds when it is used.
The power to hurt is most successful when held in reserve.
March 6th, 2009
Why do so many people take so many opportunities to talk about how they are being silenced?
March 5th, 2009
Category: Corruption in Washington
The second Bush Administration was a thousand points of loot.
March 5th, 2009
Category: Politics and Leadership
In looking for the origins of the phrase “caught red handed” (depressingly boring–it was, as I suspected, the low-tech equivalent of powder burns), I came across the origins of the “Red Hand” symbol of Ulster. According to the most unlikely story and therefore the best one,* there was a boat race to settle who would [...]
March 4th, 2009
Category: Russia
Could it have been to help Medvedev in his power struggle with Putin? If so, I approve.
March 3rd, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Proclaims him “a great leader for conservatives.” All hail Limbaugh, the Great Leader!
March 2nd, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
We even do political re-education better than the people who invented it. It took Stalin months to re-educate Kamenev, and it took Mao years to re-educate Deng Xiaoping; Rush Limbaugh re-educated Michael Steel in less than 24 hours, without ever putting a hand on him.