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2010-07-29T05:30:06-04:00

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Court overturns Arizona’s immigration law

Last updated on: July 29, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Most of it, at least: A U.S. judge has blocked the most controversial provisions of a new immigration law in the southwestern state of Arizona, one day before the measure was to go into effect. The federal judge Wednesday blocked the part of the law that required police to check the immigration status of any person they stop for a violation and suspect is in the country illegally. Judge Susan Bolton also put on hold a provision requiring immigrants to... Read more

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Arizona immigration law

2010-07-29T05:00:29-04:00

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Temporary marriage

Last updated on: July 29, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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We have blogged earlier about the phenomenon of “temporary marriage” in Shi’ite Islam, which sanctions sexual immorality by allowing a man to “marry” a woman and then “divorce” her after a one-night stand. Now a mosque in Iran is, in effect, setting up a prostitution ring, including in its offerings children as young as twelve. Here is the official announcement: In order to elevate the spiritual atmosphere, create proper psychological conditions and tranquility of mind, the Province of the Quds’eh-Razavi... Read more

Islam

Temporary Marriage

2010-07-28T13:34:51-04:00

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Watching television

Last updated on: July 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm By Gene Veith

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I am not what you would call an early adopter. Our one-and-half year old granddaughter was poking the buttons on our television set and somehow she broke the thing! The screen would light up, showing no picture, and then fade to black. Since that set dated from about the time when her mother was her age, we decided to buy a new one. I find that you can’t just get one with a cathode-ray tube anymore, so we ended up... Read more

2010-07-28T08:38:16-04:00

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The jobs conundrum

Last updated on: July 28, 2010 at 8:38 am By Gene Veith

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Profits are way up, but employment is way down. Harold Meyerson is worried about what he sees as a new business model: In the mildly halcyon days before the 2008 crash, the one economic outlier was wages. Profit, revenue and GDP all increased; only ordinary Americans’ incomes lagged behind. Today, wages are still down, employment remains low and sales revenue isn’t up much, either. But profits are the outlier. They’re positively soaring. Among the 175 companies in the Standard &... Read more

Economics

unemployment

2010-07-28T08:19:45-04:00

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When the state-run health care system makes cuts

Last updated on: July 28, 2010 at 8:19 am By Gene Veith

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Great Britain has a state-run health care system, having taken over virtually all medical care at little or no cost to the individual. That’s what many people in this country would also like to see eventually. But now the incredibly expensive British system has to save costs. Here are some of the ways the British government will save money: * Restrictions on some of the most basic and common operations, including hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery and orthodontic procedures.... Read more

Medicine

British medical system

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socialized medicine

2010-07-27T06:00:33-04:00

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Communing a dog

Last updated on: July 27, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Consider not only this unspeakable sacrilege but the reason given for commiting it: St. Peter’s Anglican Church has long been known as an open and inclusive place. So open, it seems, they won’t turn anyone away. Not even a dog. That’s how a blessed canine ended up receiving communion from interim priest Rev. Marguerite Rea during a morning service the last Sunday in June. According to those in attendance at the historical church at 188 Carlton St. in downtown Toronto,... Read more

Church

Holy Communion

2010-07-27T05:30:48-04:00

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Predicting the future by projecting the present

Last updated on: July 27, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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That post about the Post Office contained an intriguing concept. It accuses the USPS of acting like Kodak, which hung onto its chemical film business even after the digital camera was invented. The syndrome is “looking at the future as a variant of the present.” This is how most predictions of the future are made. Take a current fact or trend and project it into the future and extrapolate it into infinity. I think of the “Tomorrowland” features on the old... Read more

Economics

technology

predictions

2010-07-27T05:04:10-04:00

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End mail delivery?

Last updated on: July 27, 2010 at 5:04 am By Gene Veith

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The U.S. Postal Service is having financial problems again and is proposing higher postage feeds and cutting out Saturday deliveries. What, though, do you get in your mail these days? In an age of e-mails and electronic banking, do we even need snail mail anymore? Yes, we need delivery of packages for what we order online–something done profitably by Fed-Ex and UPS–so why not make that the business of the USPS, with those who still send paper correspondence paying for... Read more

Economics

technology

U. S. Post Office

2010-07-26T08:12:44-04:00

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How Amazon.com funds this blog

Last updated on: July 26, 2010 at 8:12 am By Gene Veith

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Speaking of buying that Bo Giertz novel through this blog reminded me to thank all of you who are using Cranach as your Amazon portal. Going to that site from here, using the Amazon search box in the sidebar, gives this blog a commission on whatever you buy. The commission starts at 4% (though I’m getting 6% because of how much I’ve sold). That’s not much, but you all really buy a lot of books. And since Amazon.com now sells... Read more

Blog

Amazon.com

2010-07-26T08:12:06-04:00

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No more secrets

Last updated on: July 26, 2010 at 8:12 am By Gene Veith

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Last week the Washington Post outed thousands of top-secret security agencies, to the point of publishing an on-line map so that they can be located. Now an online group WikiLeaks has released thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistani officials are condemning the publication of leaked documents that are said to be secret U.S. military files about the Afghanistan war. The website WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of documents online Sunday, and said it has... Read more

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