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Larison on Sotomayor IFRL-TLC-Scenery-steve-halama-388088-unsplash

Larison on Sotomayor

Mark of New Jersey May 27, 2009
Daniel Larison has put together some excellent thoughts on the current leading objections to Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination...
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Baby all I need is a shot in the arm

Will May 27, 2009
Jay Bennett passed away yesterday. He’ll be missed. Wilco hit a rough patch after he left the...
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weird fact I just realized

Freddie May 27, 2009
The Magic, Nuggets and Cavaliers are all led by stars whose last names are usually first names....
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goodbye, cruel league

Freddie May 26, 2009
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Comment of the Day

Chris Dierkes May 26, 2009
“If you were defining “God” as “Jaybird”, allow me to back up and say that I absolutely...
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a judicious quote

Erik Kain May 26, 2009
“I’ve only seen the headlines, but I expect all the clowns put on their clown suits this...
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when wars ended

Erik Kain May 26, 2009
I was watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with my wife this weekend (it always takes...
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Mark Levin, Asshole IFRL-NaPP-Retro-36625257244_34a7dab5bf_b

Mark Levin, Asshole

Will May 26, 2009
Levin forcefully rebuts validates his critics.
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Yesterday

Erik Kain May 26, 2009
I was cold turkey on blogging all weekend for a much needed respite from the internet, and...
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atheist mythos (not “the myth of atheism”)

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
Mark’s sharp post the other day on PZ Myers (building off a similarly sharp post by Br....
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Please join me

Freddie May 25, 2009
in congratulating Ms. Dara Lind and Mr. Will Wilson on their graduating college. Now go get ’em.
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Monday Evening Humor

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
For Br. Will:
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Thank You Jesus, Subway, and NBC

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
Chuck got a Third Season.  Even if it doesn’t start until after the Winter Olympics here in...
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The Difficult Cloudy Middle of Abortion

Guest Authors May 25, 2009
By Dan Summers — I enjoyed Chris’s recent post about Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame.  With...
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AQFTD

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
At a minimum, Obama seemed alive to the moral and legal ambiguities implied by the issue. Not...
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the ballad of RSM

Freddie May 24, 2009
Worried that conservatives will really make a roaring comeback? Read Robert Stacy McCain, and be assuaged. Joe,...
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Sunday Poem Series

Freddie May 24, 2009
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated and modified by Edward Fitzgerald) 1 Awake! for Morning in the...
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Crazy Church Story of the Day

Chris Dierkes May 23, 2009
So I’m working at my church today and there’s a wedding.  It’s all going more or less...
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Quote o’ the Day

Chris Dierkes May 23, 2009
Even deciding where the two Qaeda suspects in Pakistani custody will be kept over the long term...
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Torture vs. Steroids

Will May 23, 2009
A cogent point from the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Mark Madsen: When the congressional hearing of Jose Canseco vs....
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