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Concurring Opinions - (USA)
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/06/meet_your_secon_2.html
Weekly Wisdom Roundup #40 (Links You Don’t Want To Miss) - (USA)
If you enjoy reading these weekly roundups I recommend signing up for the free weekly wisdom newsletter via our homepage (click here) . -Miguel Barbosa Founder Of Simoleon Sense Feature: Satyajit Das’s On Financial Remake - Remakes are rarely as good as the original but can sometimes add something, if only a nostalgic and sentimental longing for the ‘real thing’. Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market (2009; Harper Business) and Pablo Triana’s Lecturing Birds on Flying (2009
http://www.simoleonsense.com/weekly-wisdom-roundup-40-links-you-don%E2%80%99t-want-to-miss/
Rachel Corrie in Palestine…and in San Francisco - (USA)
By Joel Beinin August 2009 The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the oldest such festival in the United States, was founded in rebellion against received wisdom. Since 1980, the festival has promoted independent Jewish films that contest the conventional Hollywood depiction of Jewish life, particularly its lachrymose over-concentration on Jewish victimhood, and regularly presented “al
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/08/rachel-corrie-in-palestineand-in-san.html
Techdirt: Do Half Of Americans Really Want The Gov't To Regulate The Internet? - (USA)
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080624/0224071489.shtml
Spam: How It Could Cost You More Than A Sale. - (USA)
by Brian V Shortt Spam. The very word is almost a four letter expletive these days something that must never be uttered in polite society. One place where it should most absolutely never be voiced is in the world of internet business. One great anecdote is from Microsoft’s own Bill Gates: “Like almost everybody who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick.” If the pioneer of the individual computer isn’t immune to spam t
http://www.tips-and-guides.com/2009/08/11/spam-how-it-could-cost-you-more-than-a-sale/
Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88 - (USA)
Not unexpected, but sad news out of Hyannis this morning .
Eunice Kennedy Shriver , who planted the seeds for the Special Olympics when she launched Camp Shriver on the lawn of her Maryland home, and then with force of will and the clout of her family name spread her vision of lifting the developmentally disabled "into the sunlight of useful living," died this morning.
Mrs. Shriver was 88. She had suffered a series of strokes in recent years and died at 2 a.m. at Cape Cod Hosp
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/12449/special-olympics-founder-eunice-kennedy-shriver-dies-at-88
phillyphan80 -- Why is Society always to blame... - (USA)
Why is Society always to blame when the parents have failed miserably to maintain control and discipline of thier kids? Pretty soon it will I work all day and don't have time to watch my kids, that is the schools job. Please, this law suit is baseless adn should have been dismissed and no furhter appeals should be allowed. But then again this is Massachusetts, so taxpayers get ready for the increase in taxes to pay for some sort of facility to help these poor, misunderstood yutes. I am going
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/springfield_truant_teens_lawsu.html#4669583
Just the facts -- Dragnet stamp with Sgt. Joe Friday on sale - (USA)
A stamp commemorating the 1950s TV show "Dragnet," which dramatized the Los Angeles Police Department, will be issued Tuesday during a ceremony at the LAPD Academy in Elysian Park. The stamp is one of 20 that commemorates early TV shows and the only stamp to pay tribute to law enforcement, according to the U.S. Postal Service. The stamps go on sale at noon. Opal Webb, surviving spouse of "Dragnet" creator Jack Webb, who played Sgt. Joe Friday, will be at the ceremony, along with Harry Morgan,
http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/2009/08/just-the-facts----dragnet-stam.html
Legal Theory Blog: Heller in the Blogosphere - (USA)
"All the theory that fits."
http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2008/06/heller-in-the-b.html
If You Convert You Die - (USA)
By: Nonie Darwish FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, August 03, 2009 (H/T Alex) Very few people in the West know what is going on inside the Muslim world and what it portends for them. The fact is that through the dominant media, such as CNN, Americans are subjected to much of the same misinformation with regard to Islam that I grew up with inside the Muslim world. The result is that Americans are in the dark attempting to formulate their strategy of how to defend themselves against the t
http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=11164
The Mumbai Killing Zones Can Be Replicated in Other Places - (USA)
A defiant Leopold Cafe reopens after the carnage. Photo from timesonlin.com.uk In military parlance, a killing zone is the area in which the enemy is to be lured or forced to occupy so as to concentrate fire upon them, often through ambush. Substitute “civilians” for “enemy” in the foregoing definition, and you have the perfect description of the operational aspect of the terror acts recently unleashed by alleged jihadists in Mumbai, India. Of course, they did not have to “lure” their victim
http://thewarriorlawyer.com/2008/11/30/the-mumbai-killing-zones-can-be-replicated-in-other-places/
Just Pent-Up Irrationality? - (USA)
Just Pent-Up Irrationality? Jennifer Rubin - 11.30.2008 - 9:27 AM If you are looking for moral gibberish on the subject of the Mumbai massacre you would be hard pressed to come up with a more exquisite example of utter confusion than this, from former Congressman Jim Leach: The Mumbai catastrophe underscores the importance of vocabulary. The issue is not “war;” it is “barbarism.” The former implies a cause: a national or tribal or ethnic rationale that infuses a sacrificial action with some
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/44941
Issue Number 1005 | Labor of Love | Advocate.com - (USA)
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid52664.asp
Obama Administration Says: Hooray for Jihad - (USA)
By Barry Rubin* GLORIA CENTRE [..] This reflection (that Obama is taking on too much) is generated by a major speech just given by John O. Brennan, Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor. He declares the “war on terrorism” is over and redefines it as a war on al-Qa’ida and its partners. Much argumentation is adduced to justify this alteration and some of it is certainly persuasive. But there are two extraordinarily important points that go unnecessarily too far and may be extremely damaging
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=16220
Temporary Recession or the End of Growth? - (USA)
This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and author of five books on resource depletion and societal responses to the energy problem. He can be found on the web at www.richardheinberg.com and www.postcarbon.org. Everyone agrees: our economy is sick. The inescapable symptoms include declines in consumer spending and consumer confidence, together with a contraction of international trade and available credit. Add a collapse in real est
http://www.bearmarketinvestments.com/temporary-recession-or-the-end-of-growth
The Smoking Gun - (USA)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
“Murphy’s Law” by Jim Murphy - (USA)
“Murphy’s Law” by Jim Murphy The Bear on Nov 30 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Politics Greetings from the Non-Global Jingoistic Bible and Gun Clinging Society of West Texas. I would like to begin by mentioning three word that refer to a government program(s) which I have pretty well been sick of hearing for several weeks. That would be “Economic Stimulus Package”. After listening to the descriptions of these various government attempts to gain control over our economy, one must wonder just e
http://www.theabsurdreport.com/2008/murphys-law-by-jim-murphy-68/
FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code - (USA)
FindLaw for Legal Professionals is a free resource for attorneys that includes online case law, free state codes, free federal codes, free legal forms, and a directory of products and services for lawyers. This online legal Web site also includes a legal career center.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=02-241#other2
“Shunning” as a Religious Practice - (USA)
All info from Wikipedia.org : Anabaptists: Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites Some sects of Anabaptist origin shun former members. Shunning occurs today in Old Order Amish and in some Mennonite churches. Shunning can be particularly painful for the shunnee in these denominations since they are generally very close-knit, and since the shunned person may have no significant social links with anyone other than those in their denomination. The Amish call shunning Meidung , the German wo
http://franciscanmafia.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/shunning-as-a-religious-practice/
The Agitator » Blog Archive » So About That Tree of Liberty… - (USA)
http://www.theagitator.com/2008/04/13/so-about-that-tree-of-liberty/
Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy - (USA)
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/05058/462446.stm
Not Reading An Iota in America - washingtonpost.com - (USA)
Where we can read, we don't. But where reading is forbidden, people are willing to suffer just to open a book.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502897.html
No Software Patents! - (USA)
Software patents should not be legalized by the European Union through a 'directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions'. This website explains what a patent is, and why software should not be patented. Every software patent is a barrier to innovation. The EU Council and the European Parliament should disallow software patents for the sake of Europe's future.
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Thoughts on Thoughts on Spitzer - (USA)
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/125429.html
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http://japan.cnet.com/news/media/story/0,2000056023,20370849,00.htm
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at 88 - (USA)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver was one of those names and faces that dotted my childhood. The Kennedy family, through good times and bad, were and are, America’s family. The reasons that whole family intrigues us has been written about at length, but the fact remains Eunice Kennedy Shriver made a difference. Using her position and money she influenced the times in which she lived, and left a mark on the nation that will last far into the future. As the Kennedy family finds another sadness in their l
http://dekerivers.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/eunice-kennedy-shriver-founder-of-special-olympics-dies-at-88/
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