Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
As to myself, my religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ, all have a different set. The former instructs us how to live well and worthily in ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
From The Shape of Days:
Ignorance of historical context is inexcusable. The Second Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with hunting. It’s about owning guns for the purpose of killing people. It was written during a time when the idea of peaceful political change was laughable; just a few years after ...
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Alberto Gonzalez and Arlen Specter today in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,
Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can't take it away except in the case of invasion or rebellion. Doesn't that mean you have the right of habeas corpus?
Gonzales: I meant by that comment ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
I haven't posted anything in a while, been terribly busy and I apoligize. I'll try to catch up with most things in the next few days, some of you will know what I'm talking about. If you're one of the lucky few that I don't owe anything to... then good ...
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