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Some Japanese World War II soldiers were recently found on the island Mindanao sixty years after Japan surrendered. There is apparently no connection to Vietnam Veteran John McCain who didn't know that the Democrats lost the 2004 elections.

Jeff Quinton catalogs some attempts by media types to start their own blogs. To date, traditional media is far removed from the "common people" and hesitant to dirty their hands with blogging "irresponsibility." Thus, early attempts reveal the latent horror within them as they wade into the blogsphere. Jeff Quinton led me to a sample in Brad Warthen's Blog which he links in his post.Welcome to my Weblog, which begins with a series of disclaimers: First, I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m making this up as I go along. I could read other blogs and imitate them, but I...

Some Japanese World War II soldiers were recently found on the island Mindanao sixty years after Japan surrendered. There is apparently no connection to John McCain who didn't know that the Democrats lost the 2004 elections.

I've poured over the polls and thought through the trends. Like anyone else, I don't know exactly what's going to happen today. But I believe the results are becoming clear. Bush's linear trends are moving up in 37 states in polling from June until now. I all those 37 states, his trend has remained up or steady since 2 months ago. Kerry is trending up in only 17 states by my calculation. And most of those correlate with the Bush uptrend in the same state.: Bush: 300, 50.3% Kerry: 235, 49.0% Nader: 0.8% States Bush: AL, AK, AZ AR, CO,...

Former President Bill Clinton sat down with Diane Sawyer of ABC News for a personal interview recently. They discussed many topics abou this personal life and his future ambitions. In true Clinton form, the former President did not fully dispel rumors of his interest in the UN Secretary General position. "There have been rumors that Clinton would like to be secretary general of the United Nations, or head of the World Bank. Asked about these, the former president said, 'Once you've been president, if you want another job, those are about the only two that you know that might be...

You likely have never heard of Ed McAteer, but you know him by his works. Although he never held a formal church position, McAteer was the father of the religious conservative movement in American politics. It was Ed McAteer, a Southern Baptist layman, who persuaded the Rev. Jerry Falwell to get involved in politics. It was McAteer who introduced Ronald Reagan to Christian activists in 1980 at a conference sponsored by his organization, the Religious Roundtable.

Some of the email and comments I have had to my posting about the debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment has prompted me to define my position, from a libertarian perspective, on defending the current definition of marriage even to the point of a Constitutional Amendment if necessary. Here is my position. I consider myself a Christian libertarian. I believe that ultimately marriage is an institution ordained and sanctified by God Himself, and not by government institutions. But my governmental ideology on the subject is such that I believe that governments are instituted among men to provide arbitration against what...

I consider myself a Christian libertarian. I believe that ultimately marriage is an institution ordained and sanctified by God Himself, and not by government institutions. But my governmental ideology on the subject is such that I believe that governments are instituted among men to provide arbitration against what I call "excessive liberty" defined as the collision of two individuals rights in willful disobedience to the Golden Rule and the Law of Nature. When individual rights meet in a violent manner, government must play a role in adjudicating the dispute. This was the dilemma of Moses for which his father-in-law Jethro...

Historically the public at large has always know they were free to believe whatever they liked and that public law in the United States was special and successful precisely because we based our social understanding on Christianity. That oldest and best, triedest and true form of conduct for a mass of people created the most prosperous society in history. Was this vision of public understanding exclusionary? No, people from all over the world came to our shores happily as guests and neighbors. Did it protect the minority? Better than any system in any country in history ever. Yet in far...

Proving once again that John Kerry never saw a flip-flop he couldn't resist, the Massachusetts Senator asserted on CNN's Crossfire in 1997 that the United States reserved the right to unilaterally attack Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the national interest. In the Washington Times today, Kerry is reported as saying then when he appeared with Cong. Peter King, "We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians. We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national...