Which History Gets Valued?

So Sharpton, civil rights activist, is descended from a slave owned by relatives of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Big deal. How about whether Sharpton is descended from Mandinka royalty in Mali or sheep herders in Gambia? Better

K.C. Johnson, Durham-in-Wonderland reported that last December the defense in the set off this provervial bomb shell: 

After his disastrous performance at the December 15 hearing—when he admitted that he and Mike Nifong had entered into an agreement to

Over at Q&O, Dale Franks notes:

From Inside Higher Ed comes this story of a new bill in Arizona.  A state Senate Committee has approved a bill that is abhorrent to First Amendment liberties.

The bill, whose chief

“His neck was completely snapped.” 

So was decribed one Wagner Segura, late of Costa Rica.  A few lessons for life, don’t piss into the wind, don’t drink warm beer and don’t mess with a Marine.  A lesson Segura failed

Some of the cynical, such as myself, have long been suspicious of the American Civil Liberty Union’s motivation.

Locally, Monroe County(Rochester), NY provides some six million dollars in funding to the local library system.  When, the county executive, Maggie Brooks,

Fran, today expounds on something I”ve touched on repeatedly, and does a fair job at breaking it down… almost as an afterthought:

 Politics is inextricably intertwined with human motivation: the fundamental sources of our desires and impetuses to act.

 Billy,

In my own case, I took the incident in its broadest possible context, which necessarily includes the general lapse of reason (actual thinking and its application) in American affairs, which, in turn, can only result in a general rise

So, McCain thinks Roe v Wade should be overturned?

Good for him. I agree.

See also, blind pig, acorn.

 Now comes the question of how to accomplish this, and does the senator have anything of a practical nature to bring

What is it about the tenets of Islam which make violence so readily acceptable?

Yet another Moslem tries to kill in the name of his religion.  Michelle Malking is asking, “I wonder what religion they were arguing about”

Words, words, words, all I ever hear is words and recenlly far too many words about Amanda Marcotte. 

Lane Hudson, on the Puffington Post writes, “Right-Wing Attack Puts Bloggers’ Lives in Danger:”  

The ramifications of Bill Donohue and

Me, just now at Q&O as regards Amanda Marcotte:

…her response (To Donahue and the public outcry generated by her nonsense..) is more or less centerline for all leftists that find themselevs challanged. They start charging dragging out their

Billy;

I have now & then taken up the challenge of attempting to illuminate Field Marshall Rodham’s politics in a context of Christian tradition. The whole project has been, generally, a dead loser. None of it means anything to the

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) – As a Catholic, Vince Haley often went to Mass at the College of William and Mary’s historic Wren Chapel when he was an undergraduate in the 1980s. Also a Catholic, school President Gene R. Nichol often

Micheal Devlin already accused of kidnapping Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby. has now been charged with sodomy.  The names Devlin’s alleged victims was not diclosed by the police.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of kidnapping

A dilema is when you see your mother-in-law driving over a cliff in your brand new Corvette.   Here Pinch Sulzberg and the New York Times have a similar dilema.  The Times absolutely hates guns, legal or otherwise, and also opposes