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Last night I was paging-down through Instapundit, as one does, and saw this post, and thought, “someone should be keeping track of all these posts of his.”

Instapundit:

A READER ASKED FOR A LIST of my “They told me if George W. Bush were re-elected” posts. Here it is. Enjoy!

Update:

Now some motivated team member has [...]

Categories: Politics

Strib - Katherine Kersten: Normandale’s ‘meditation room’ is home to a single faith

Last week, I visited a Muslim place of worship. A schedule for Islam’s five daily prayers was posted at the entrance, near a sign requesting that shoes be removed. Inside, a barrier divided men’s and women’s prayer space, an arrow informed [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I had an article about this guy open a couple weeks ago, but Safari crashed and I forgot to go looking for it again. Was to do with his ascendency in various political circles. I was going to do a post on it with the title making some sort of crack about Aids Awareness making [...]

Categories: Politics

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Times Online - Paris Weblog - Sarkozy’s new love story, by Charles Bremner

They don’t call him Speedy Sarko for nothing. It’s exactly two months since President Sarkozy very reluctantly confirmed that Cécilia, his wife, had left and divorced him. Today, he has presented France with a new girlfriend, Carla Bruni, who turns 39 [...]

Categories: Politics

Now, though it is perfectly legitimate to laugh our asses off at how unbelievably stupid these women are, they who are paid vast sums of money to be on television every day talking about what they know, and feeling very smart for being paid to know all of it, just pause and reflect for a [...]

Categories: History

Well, no, not really. But I Am Legend is a really good movie. Never mind what the idiot reviewers thought. There’s even a subtle faith element running very thinly through it. In a way that isn’t annoying at all. But yeah, it’s really good, and I don’t usually go in for sci-fi. Or zombie flicks. [...]

Categories: Entertainment

BBC - Savoy to close for restoration

The Savoy, one of London’s best-known hotels, is set to close for a £100m refit that will take 16 months.

Fine, whatever, I never got near the thing.

Some 3,000 pieces of hotel history, including beds, chandeliers and an oak dance floor, are to be sold off [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The Local (Sweden) - Army castrates heraldic lion

You’ve got “women in the nation’s rapid reaction force”, “emasculation”, “castration”, “lion”, “Once upon a time coats of arms containing lions without genitalia were given to those who betrayed the Crown”, “We were forced to cut the lion’s willy off with the aid of a computer”… Really [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Daily Mail - Eight-limbed toddler finally stands on her own two feet after marathon operation

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Letters show how Diana turned to Duke of Edinburgh as marriage counsellor The Princess found a ready supply of help, not criticism, from her father-in-law as her marriage broke down in the summer of 1992

The Duke’s public pronouncements on marriage have been scarce. Four years earlier, he had observed: “When a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

MSNBC - Huckaboom and Hillabust The surprising falls and unexpected gains ahead of Iowa’s caucuses (I think he’s just running for president because his name lends itself so easily to the vagaries of political campaigning)

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is teetering on the brink, no matter what the meaningless national horserace numbers say. The notion [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - Shabby victory for the top-downers Thunderer: History will have a word for what the British Government did in Lisbon today: perfidy, by Rosemary Righter

“History will remember this day as a day when new paths of hope were opened to the European ideal.” Thus spoke José Sócrates, the Prime Minister of Portugal, [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - Huckaboom to Huckabust? The surprise front-runner for the Republican nomination may find a few banana skins lie in wait, by Gerard Baker

The former Governor of Arkansas — there’s a presidential pedigree of recent vintage for you — has been an outsider for most of the race for the Republican nomination. But [...]

Categories: Politics

First, we consult this, from June 8th, this year:

TMZ - JT and Cam: Fakin’ It

Former duo Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz looked totally enchanted with each other today … when cameras were on them! The exes appeared for the “Shrek the Third” premiere on a balcony [...]

Categories: Politics

NYT - Amazon Ordered to End Free Delivery on Books in France

Amazon.com may not offer free delivery on books in France, the high court in Versailles has ruled. The action, brought in January 2004 by the French Booksellers’ Union (Syndicat de la librairie française), accused Amazon of offering illegal discounts [...]

Categories: Business & Media