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While searching for the context of a surprising and fragmented presidential quote I came across this database. It had the full quote in the full context. It appears to be extensive in documenting all kinds of written and spoken presidential remarks. "The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database: • The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington - Taft (1789-1913) • The Public Papers of the Presidents: Hoover to Bush (1929-1993) • The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Clinton - Obama (1993-2009) • Our archives also contain...

Jim Manzi on the argument from the left that Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment is being taken out of context: I’m not so sure it looks better in context. ~~~ ...Sotomayor makes the indisputable point that decisions made by judges are at least partially impacted by their biological characteristics and life experiences. Human judgment clearly plays a role in such decisions; hence the need for human judges, as opposed to “law interpreting algorithms” in the first place. A key point, of course, is that in the passage under consideration, she goes beyond this and asserts not just that her decisions would...

Jim Geraghty of NationalReview.com's Campaign Spot listened to the new Jeremiah Wright audio posted immediately below (with transcripts being added as Duane can get to them). His reaction:is reacting in the same way as Fred Barnes, Morton Kondracke and many of my callers did yesterday when I played both of the sermons over the air. Now will MSM allow the public to hear the "context" Pastor Wright has complained he has been denied? It isn't like the cable channels are stuffed with can't miss material. One of them should play the audio.

In his interview with Bill Moyers, Pastor Jeremiah Wright blasted the media for failing to provide context to his much-condemned remarks. On today's show I played great portions of his sermons from April 13, 2004 and from September 16, 2001. I will post the audio here later (audio is posted). Pastor Wright has a legitimate complaint that only sound bytes have been played, but until today I had no other material to work with. The pastor could help us all if he would release recordings of all of his sermons, and Moyers ought to have asked for just that. If...

ONDON: Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East more than doubling, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by gangs or terrorists. This is the world in 30 years, as envisaged by a British Ministry of Defence team tasked with sketching the likely "future strategic context" for the country's armed forces. It includes an "analysis of the key risks and shocks". Rear Admiral Chris Parry, head of the ministry's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre,...

  On 10/26/06 I posted my paper showing that the Notorious 4 Isms were endeavoring to destroy our Constitutional Republic. Publicity of that well documented paper could destroy the Democratic Party. Not to any great surprise, politicians and the media have not picked up on it.  Hence, this paper entitled "Scared?". My first paper, "Guilt of the 4 Isms" can be accessed below. But first, please read the present paper.  Scared ? Scared ? Afraid? Of what are they afraid? Is this my Halloween surprise for “aught 6”? One would think that the Founding Documents penned by our well educated...

Brouhaha ContextBy John Hammer Despite what Americans have been led to believe by the mainstream media, the protests about the Danish cartoons are about as spontaneous as the canned laughter on an old network sitcom. Imagine for a moment that you are so outraged by the riots in Pakistan that you and 10,000 of your closest friends and family decide to protest. So you go to your flag locker and pull out your Pakistani flag to burn. What? You don’t have a flag locker with flags of every nation in the world? Wow, if one is to believe the tripe...

The Nature of Fallen Humanity This chapter explores whether the Wesleyan concept of prevenient grace can be supported from the Scriptures. Before examining this question, I want to emphasize that there is a significant area of common ground between Wesleyans and Calvinists. The disagreements that we have in some areas can cause us to overlook the extent to which we agree on major doctrines. In one arena of theology, namely, anthropology, the harmony between Wesleyans and Calvinists is of the utmost importance and our harmony in this area should be celebrated. Both camps acknowledge that fallen human beings are born...

"Jews as Nazis" and "U.S. Flag in the Toilet" Art Displays Fuel Hatred against Jews and Americans     California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, in his official capacity, is sponsoring and hosting a leftist lawyers art exhibit that contains a collection of art displays with themes that are blatantly anti-American, anti-military, antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-Republican, anti-President Bush, and anti-conservative. The art exhibit is on display from July 15 through July 31, 2005, in the first floor cafeteria at the California Department of Justice building on I Street, at the state capitol. This art exhibit is also jointly sponsored by the...

Blast you, O'Reilly...you talk the talk, but don't walk the walk when you finally score one of your "targets".......you had a great little elitist smilefest with Bob Kerrey, but failed to hammer him. Your critics are right - you're starstruck, and just as much a member of the 'Establishment' you pretend to deride. Hell, you apparently just couldn't remember how to pronounce the name "Gorelick", eh, so you just cruised through your lovefest? Time to cash in the chips, Bill. ErnBatavia (inserting FReepname here)- La Quinta, California

It seems we serve a multi-purpose Jesus. Anyone can take the texts of Scripture and form it into any mold they choose. Jesus flipped over tables in the temple. Maybe Jesus had anger management issues? If it sounds ridiculous, that's because it is.

QUESTION: Why is the doxology of the Lord's prayer ("For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and glory forever. Amen.") found in Matthew, missing in Luke's account of the same in his Gospel?

One of the biggest problems with the rhetoric of today’s liberals is their use of context-dropping whenever it suits their ideological needs. Context-dropping is the over-simplification of ideas to create floating abstractions that ignore relevant distinctions that exist in reality. For example, take the notion of “extremism.” Liberals criticize conservatives' "extremist" views, hinting that their extremism follows from latent racism, overt religious fundamentalism, and quite often, support of capitalism. “Tolerance and moderation must replace extremism,” they say, but is this really a meaningful statement? Within some contexts, such as our daily intake of vitamins, moderation is indeed the best policy,...