blogs.wsj.com - 9/3/2009
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gonzales Anyone out there, by chance, looking for things to do in Philadelphia this weekend? The Phillies are out of town, but you could go see Alice in Chains at the Theater of Living Arts on Saturday, check out the Star Trek exhibit at the Franklin Museum, or get all gaga over Dada at the ...
washingtontimes.com - 9/3/2009
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Ben Conery ( Contact ) EXCLUSIVE: Former Attorney
General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous...
assertion that it was "legitimate to question and examine" charges of CIA abuses of suspected terrorists did not mean he endorsed such an ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Gonzales backtracks on support of probe
gonzalescantata.com - 9/3/2009
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gonzalescantata.com —
BACKGROUND ON GONZALES... In February 2005, President George
W. Bush appointed White House Counsel and former Secretary...
of the State of Texas Alberto Gonzales the 80th Attorney General of the United States. By the end of 2007, Gonzales had resigned ...
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The Gonzales Cantata - a choir work based on transcripts ...
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 9/4/2009
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Well, consider it a tip for anyone out
there who may want to keel over this weekend....
I sure as hell won't be consuming one of these. Unless I can get down to the Texas State Fair.Forget fried Oreos. There's a new artery-clogging, cholesterol-raising treat on the way: deep-fried butter.The ...
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Holiday Culinary Tip: Deep-Fried Butter
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Reason Morning Links: Pfizer Pays Record Fine, Curt Schilling May Run for Senate, Feds Need More Workers?
Hit & Run —
• Backers of climate change bill outspending opponents by 50 percent. • Study says federal government in desperate need of . . . a hiring spree? • Retired MLB pitcher Curt Schilling may run for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. • Pfizer to pay $2.3 billion in fines for off-label drug marketing. • Alberto Gonzalez, the opera.
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ThinkFast: September 3, 2009
Think Progress —
... , “a 40-minute choral work based on the hearings that punctuated the U.S. attorney-dismissal scandal back in 2007.” The show’s creator, Melissa Dunphy, says it’s about “a man who made some mistakes and is facing the music.” ...
Gonzo Opera
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... are set to music and sung by a gender-inverted cast. It sounds sort of like Henry Purcell filtered through late John Adams, if that's your sort of thing. Honestly, I think more fertile material would've been the earlier NSA wiretap hearings, where Alberto Gonzales' persistent and repetitive evasions already sounded a bit like some kind of looping Philip Glass chorus. Still, I'm almost shocked something like this hasn't been done before: as composer Melissa Dunphy points out in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, congressional hearings provide a unique mix of ...
There's an Opera for Everyone? -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner on National Review Online —
WSJ:
Anyone out there, by chance, looking for things to do in Philadelphia this weekend? The Phillies are out of town, but you could go see Alice in Chains at the Theater of Living Arts on Saturday, check out the Star Trek exhibit at the Franklin Museum, or get all gaga over Dada at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Duchamp exhibit.
But if law and politics is your bag (and we know that you know that it is), you might be intrigued enough to take a flyer on The Gonzales Cantata, a concert opera ...
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harrisonprice.com 9/7/2009 — Racial hatred in Star Trek seemed silly onscreen.
Even as Van Jones, the discredited “green czar” who used to work for Obama but quit amid a firestorm of “Conservative anger” over what the man said and wrote, the Wall Street Journal pens a nice piece about race in the ...
Free Podcast o' the Day
directorblue.blogspot.com 9/7/2009 — Other Items of Interest • Mark Levin reads Chapter One of Liberty and Tyranny (MP3) • Mark Levin reads the Conservative Manifesto (MP3) • Star Trek: The Stimulus Doomsday Machine • An open letter to Colin Powell • Illustrated Results of Barack Obama's Community Organizing • True Life Fannie Mae ...
Lost in Space —
Shot in the Dark
Is NASA necessary?
…before you answer that, remember, Star Trek isn’t real, and clearly the government already knows where Uranus is.
Is there a cure for cancer or world hunger in space? Should we risk bumping into someone out there, and pissing them off? Do we need to spend Billions ...
The Gonzales Cantata —
Crooks and Liars
Disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has had his evasive testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committe made into a 40 minute concert opera for the Philadephia Fringe Festival, the entire libretto taken from the hearing transcripts. Also, check out the clever website design ...
Open Thread —
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: next Mars mission should be somebody's one-way trip !
Lawrence M. Krause, the author of The Physics of Star Trek, has an interesting proposal to reduce the cost of an expedition to Mars. Krause proposes that Mars expeditions from the ...
Der MeisterGonzo —
Talking Points Memo
In all the rush of news on health care reform and bitten fingers today, I'd missed the news that an original Opera has been composed based on the transcripts of the Alberto Gonzales hearings from the US Attorney Scandal.
The "Gonzales Cantata" will be performed for the first time this ...
Why not send people to Mars and just leave them there? —
Althouse
Lawrence M. Krauss, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University and author of "The Physics of 'Star Trek'" makes this suggestion in an op-ed in today's NYT: Much of the cost of a voyage to Mars will be spent on coming home again. If the fuel for the return is carried on the ...
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