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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is Cultural Progress

February 22, 2012
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is Cultural Progress

I started getting SI because of extra United Airline miles I could use up. I find the magazine an enjoyable read because I’m a sports guy, but also because they tell great stories, and sport is ready made for compelling stories. But some people might think I get it for the swimsuit issue, which is not true. I thought it interesting in the weeks before that issue came out that there was a notice in the magazine to not get that issue if it was something you preferred not to see. I commend SI for that, but I didn’t take advantage of it and got mine last week.

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Vinyl Record Resurgence Speaks to Digital Limitations

February 5, 2012
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Vinyl Record Resurgence Speaks to Digital Limitations

Progressives and negative conservatives have something in common; they both tend to think that history’s progression or regression, depending which side of the spectrum you are on will determine which, is inexorable. They both in different ways tend to leave out one very important variable: human nature. Who would have thought that vinyl records would have given me such profound insight?

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Compassionate with Other People’s Money

February 3, 2012
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Compassionate with Other People’s Money

According to Barack Obama, his Christian faith compels him to require the “rich” to pay more taxes. Obama told us this at yesterday’s National Prayer Breakfast. He believes that, like most modern liberals in today’s America, that the rich are not “paying their fair share.” Really? If only we could take more money, by force of law, from all those rich people out there we could finally balance our multi-trillion dollar budget deficit? Jesus says? Even if he did, there are not enough of these so called “rich” to make up for the sea of red ink the United States government is drowning in.

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What Ever Happened to Al Gore?

January 29, 2012
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What Ever Happened to Al Gore?

We may have reached a watershed moment in American culture. As I made my morning trek to the LA Times website yesterday, I saw a headline that made me a bit suspicious, “U.S. seems to have largely escaped winter.” I live in the Chicago area, and as a native southern Californian I do not state it too strongly when I say I hate the weather here, and I hate winter more than the other seasons (btw, late summer/early fall is the time to visit Chicago). After three horrible winters it’s been nice to get a reprieve this winter. We actually played golf on January 11! It was mid-50s that day. Crazy.

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Shocking Entertainment Has Some Exalted Company

January 26, 2012
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Shocking Entertainment Has Some Exalted Company

Most Americans no longer have a close familiarity with the Bible and the stories of the Bible. Even many Christians only have a very cursory knowledge of it, basically what they get at Church every Sunday, or whenever they go. My knowledge of The Book is more than cursory, but it had been decades since I read it from cover to cover, and after all that time I’m sure I needed a refreshing on the narrative of God’s progressive revelation.

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John Stewart Throws Conservatives Some Crumbs

January 13, 2012
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John Stewart Throws Conservatives Some Crumbs

You may have seen the link on our Newswire, ‘Daily Show’ Brilliantly Exposes President of ‘Civility Project’ Who Smeared Tea Partiers as ‘Terrorists’. This is what Rush Limbaugh has creatively come to call a random act of journalism, and it’s brilliantly executed and hilarious. In a media dominated by lefty progressive liberals, it’s a rare thing when they call their own side out on their inconsistencies or flagrant distortions. When this happens, conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals, constitutionalists (have I left anyone out), everyone who cares about liberty and limited government, gets excited. Wow! Truth in the media; far out!

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Tebow 3:16!

January 9, 2012
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Tebow 3:16!

I know, I know, God doesn’t care who wins football games, I think. But I do know God likes drama; the Bible is full of it. And Tim Tebow is nothing if not drama. Yesterday’s amazing win over the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers just added to the young legend. And it had to be this way didn’t it? At least for one more week.

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California to the Rescue Again!

January 3, 2012
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California to the Rescue Again!

Truly, I don’t know how any of us survived prior to the nanny state protecting us from ourselves. When I was a kid, before car seats and seatbelt laws, I actually lived through vacations where my folks drove us all up and down the west coast. I am scarred by the ordeal, but with a little bit of therapy I’ve made it to adulthood as a fairly balanced individual. But thank God California has finally come to the rescue of six and seven year olds all over this fair land (we know, what starts in CA eventually makes its way to the other 49 states—or is it 56).

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‘Mission Impossible’ Is Impossible!

December 29, 2011
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‘Mission Impossible’ Is Impossible!

But if you can suspend disbelief for a couple hours it is one heck of a ride . . .

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LA’s Greatest Sports Moment is one of America’s as well

December 24, 2011
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LA’s Greatest Sports Moment is one of America’s as well

I got a little early Christmas present this morning when I made my daily visit to the LA Times website. Being born and raised in southern California and being stuck in another dysfunctional state, Illinois, it’s a way to keep up with my hometown sports teams. Over the last several weeks the Times has asked readers to vote on the city’s greatest sports moments. Number one is a moment that every sports fan alive at the time no matter who their teams are remembers.

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Robertson No Fan of SNL

December 21, 2011
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Robertson No Fan of SNL

Pat Robertson, the lightening rod televangelist and former presidential candidate, doesn’t much like Saturday Night Live mocking Tim Tebow, or Jesus Christ. He called last Saturday night’s skit part of wave of "anti-Christian bigotry that is just disgusting."

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Gold Coins and American Rebellion

December 15, 2011
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Gold Coins and American Rebellion

Is there a future in America for the more limited government that our Founding Fathers thought they were bequeathing to us? Something as trivial as a gold dollar coin can tell us something about that possibility, because you don't see a whole lot of those in circulation, despite the best efforts of politicians and government bureaucrats who think they are looking out for our good.

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