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Extraterrestrial Evangelism

April 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Episcopal

Monastery of the Remarkable English Martyrs: Creator and Redeemer of All the Worlds
Someone is already pondering it… much as I suspected. 

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links for 2007-04-29

April 28th, 2007 · No Comments · del.icio.us

Annals of Law: Poll Position: The New Yorker
So much tasty goodness in this old article from the New Yorker in 2004, in the evil days when Ashcroft stalked the land. There’s a reference to the Attorney General’s Honors Program, which is back in the news these days due to the big scandal at DOJ over
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Standing Against Illiberal Winds

April 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Episcopal, Good and Joyful Things

The Lead
"Illiberal winds are blowing pernicious policy and polity changes our way," the Rev. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University says. "…The Communiqué from the Tanzanian Primates’ meeting brought the intentions of those who dictated its content more fully out of the closet."
What delicious use of irony - those [...]

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Redux: Republicans and Voter Fraud

April 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Politics, Schmolitics

Operation Eagle Eye | Campaign for America's Future
I didn't have time to go digging for juicy citations, but Campaign for America's Future did.

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Iraq: If You Rebuild It, It Will Be A Big Fat Waste of Money

April 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics

Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling - New York Times
In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack [...]

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