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2009-06-30T05:00:45-04:00

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Was it a coup, or the rule of law?

Last updated on: June 30, 2009 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The leftist president of Honduras was overthrown in what has been called a military coup that is being condemned by Chavez, Castro, and the Obama administration. And yet, according to this account, the military was following a court order to defend the Honduran constitution and the rule of law: Hugo Chávez’s coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation’s constitution. It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried... Read more

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2009-06-29T06:00:04-04:00

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Road trip! Road trip!

Last updated on: June 29, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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We are on a week-long road trip, headed first to the Consortium of Classical and Lutheran Education conference at our church body’s last boarding school in Concordia, Missouri, and then to visit family in Oklahoma. This blog, however, will not go on hiatus, even for a week, since my new blogging software lets me post things now that will pop up later, so you’ll see new postings all week. (There might not be quite as many and they may not... Read more

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2009-06-29T05:45:21-04:00

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The House passes climate cap-and-trade bill

Last updated on: June 29, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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The House passed a bill, now to go to the Senate, to purify the climate. Its prime mechanism will be to require companies to buy pollution allowances from companies that don’t pollute as much as they are allowed to. The House narrowly passed an ambitious climate bill yesterday that would establish national limits on greenhouse gases, create a complex trading system for emission permits and provide incentives to alter how individuals and corporations use energy. The bill passed 219 to... Read more

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2009-06-29T05:03:36-04:00

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Iran uprisings mark the end of jihadism?

Last updated on: June 29, 2009 at 5:03 am By Gene Veith

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Joshua Muravchik believes that the uprisings in Iran will mark the beginning of the end of radical, jihadist Islam: Even if the Iranian regime succeeds in suppressing the protests and imposes the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by force of bullets, mass arrests and hired thugs, it will have forfeited its legitimacy, which has always rested on an element of consent as well as coercion. Most Iranians revered Ayatollah Khomeini, but when his successor, Ayatollah Khamenei, declared the election results... Read more

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2009-06-26T08:37:29-04:00

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The glory and the depravity of man

Last updated on: June 26, 2009 at 8:37 am By Gene Veith

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The two posts below come from two different articles and are based on two different scientific discoveries. If you read the original links, you will find that the time periods they describe overlap. Both deal with the proto-European cave-dwellers when they were dwelling alongside the Neanderthals. Now let’s put the two findings together. . . .What do we learn? Read more

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2009-06-26T08:27:51-04:00

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The first known musical instrument

Last updated on: June 26, 2009 at 8:27 am By Gene Veith

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Archeologists have found a hollowed-out bird bone, into which was carved five finger holes and a mouthpiece, making a flute. Scientists dated it at more than 35,000 years ago, which means it was made in the last major ice age. It was found in a cave in Germany that contained wall paintings and sculptures. This link gives the story and also something to click so you can hear what it sounds like. Read more

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Music

2009-06-26T08:20:31-04:00

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What happened to the Neanderthals

Last updated on: June 26, 2009 at 8:20 am By Gene Veith

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Some scientists think they have discovered what happened to the Neanderthals. The more advanced, more highly evolved homo sapiens ate them: One of science’s most puzzling mysteries – the disappearance of the Neanderthals – may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert. The controversial suggestion follows publication of a study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences about a Neanderthal jawbone apparently butchered by modern humans. Now the leader of the research team says he believes... Read more

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2009-06-26T08:07:02-04:00

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Death of the icons

Last updated on: June 26, 2009 at 8:07 am By Gene Veith

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Michael Jackson died. Also Farrah Fawcett. What can we say? Read more

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television

2009-06-25T05:45:06-04:00

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More Republican vice

Last updated on: June 25, 2009 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, just up and disappeared for six days. No one could find him. Foul play was suspected. Then he turned up. He said he was getting away from it all by hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Then the story changed. He said he was in Argentina. Now we know that he was in Argentina having an extramarital affair. Another Republican supporter of family values is caught not having any. Adultery compounded by hypocrisy. Add... Read more

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2009-06-25T05:30:38-04:00

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If non-sectarian, why not non-partisan?

Last updated on: June 25, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Michael Gerson raises some interesting points about how PBS is now enforcing (with some odd exceptions) ban on religious programming: On Tuesday, the Public Broadcasting System’s board of directors decided that member stations could no longer add religious programming. The board was applying a 1985 rule that all PBS shows must be “noncommercial, nonpartisan and nonsectarian.” But the decision was a compromise — allowing stations that currently run religious shows (mass for shut-ins, Mormon devotionals, etc.) to continue existing programming.... Read more

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