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Last week Eric Holder gave testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, addressing his decision to take the 911 terrorists out of the military justice system and bring them to New York City to participate in a civilian trial. His remarks about those who criticized his decision were of ...
Law
9/11
Eric Holder
A few thoughts/questions on mass.1. When it did become acceptable to break out into applause during the service? I don't remember it ever happening in the 70's or 80's. 90's perhaps? I find it grating, to say the least. During Sunday's service there was not one, not two, but three outbursts of ...
Other
It wasn't like I tried to do it. I was just sitting in my seat trying to keep tabs on the two kids next to me on the flight to Miami. So when the flight attendant caught my shoe as she tried to make her way past, took a header, and uttered a "GD" as she sprawled out in the aisle, it wasn't the ...
World
Chad
I'm not big into superstition and certainly not numerology, but I still find the following rather interesting to consider. If I was asked to choose a lucky number, I would have to go with three. The other contender would be two and therefore combinations of them--23, 32--would also be lucky for ...
World
Chad
The Northern Alliance Radio Network is back LIVE for another exciting and provocative broadcast day.It all starts at 11AM central with me and John Hinderaker. We'll likely talk about the Eric Holder testimony this week, Sarah Palin's book and other literary masterpieces by politicians, and about ...
Other
This week's edition of Beer of the Week brought to you as always by the festive folk at Glen Lake Wine & Spirits. They've got everything you need for holiday cheer whether you've been naughty or nice. Many of our current Christmas traditions and customs have come to us from our British cousins. ...
Other
There's no reason that I should like Fox's television series Glee. It's a musical comedy set in a high school. While I enjoy plays and movies, I generally can't stand musical versions of either. Way back in junior high I remember going on a class field trip to see a musical movie version of ...
World
I see some merit to Chad's comments from the other day about the perils of providing unconditional support to Sarah Palin based on reasons other than her individual merit.Then I saw that MinnPost approvingly commented and linked to the sentiment.This is good.If the Democrats, feminists, media ...
World
Chad
Sarah Palin
Irish lodge protest after cheat shuts them out: Ireland appealed to France and soccer authorities Thursday to replay their World Cup playoff in Paris after an obvious handball by Henry produced the winning goal.Ireland's government and opposition leaders united in demands for Wednesday?s 1-1 ...
World
Ireland
France
Henry Waxman
Chad
Fraters resident energy guy (what, you don't have a guy?) Tim from Colorado e-mails on the approach of a new dark age:So this is how it will all begin.Xcel Energy is launching a state wide program on December 11th "to promote energy efficiency and the purchase of compact fluorescent bulbs.""The ...
World
NFL fans everywhere are eagerly anticipating this Sunday's showdown between the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns. Not since the epic Browns-Bills shootout in Week Five, when Cleveland clawed out a 6-3 win, has a game attracted this kind of excitement. Many intriguing questions are already ...
Congress
Sherrod Brown
The most recent edition of National Review features Charles Krauthammer on its cover and has a good piece on the indispensible intellectual/pundit by Jay Nordlinger called Critic-in-Chief (sub req): So, Charles Krauthammer has not exactly been a wallflower or nonentity. But since January 20, ...
White House
Barack Obama
Caught a good bit of Rush's interview with Sarah Palin today over the lunch hour. I thought her performance was decent if a little uneven. She displayed the same down-home folksy Palin charm that we saw on the campaign trail last year. And there's no denying that there's a certain appeal to ...
White House
Sarah Palin
This following story caught my eye for a number of reasons. Man Gets Life In Punching Death Of Fetus: A Hopkins man accused of having a friend punch his pregnant girlfriend to kill the fetus has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.Twenty-five-year-old Dameon Gatson was ...
World
In Friday's WSJ, Eric Felten writes on the marginalzation of Thanksgiving: Given half a chance, retailers would probably try to get their plastic garlands hung just after Labor Day. (Ho-ho-ho, it's back to school!) But we've been spared that particular encroachment, thanks to a holiday that has ...
World
After yesterday's victory over the Lions, Vikings head coach Brad Childress made what has to be the worst excuse for a player's performance and the worst pitch for a new stadium for the team that we've heard to date: We asked Brad Childress if Adrian Peterson could have done anything to prevent ...
Congress
Brad Miller
French intellectual Guy Sorman speaking with Russian economic advisor Arkady Dvorkovitch on global warming (from Sorman's book Economics Does Not Lie: The growth potential of China and India has convinced them that oil prices can only further rise, to Russia's great benefit. When I raise the ...
World
Russia
China
India
United States
Chad
For some months now, there has been a severe blog post recession. Among Minnesota conservative blogs especially, there has been a significant decrease in the number of posts. In an effort to put an end to this recession, at least at Fraters Libertas, Chad the Elder put together a Blog Post ...
White House
Stimulus Plan
Chad
Word is finally leaking out to the wider world about a certain Saturday radio program being hosted by bloggers. And reviews so far are less than raving:Oh, great. Just what we needed: Four hours of radio consisting of bloggers no one knows about yapping about blogs no one cares about.Turning ...
Other
Matthew Continetti has an interesting piece in today's WSJ that asks Can Sarah Palin Make a Comeback?: Could Ms. Palin follow Reagan's example? Maybe. She'd need to return to her 2006 playbook.In Alaska, Ms. Palin didn't run as a culture warrior. She focused on issues with overwhelming public ...
