Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'history'

The History of Suburban Housing

For at least the last thirty years, I've been hearing "affordable housing" advocates yammer about the high cost of housing, and how working families can no longer afford "decent" housing, which they apparently consider to be the three or...

The History of Suburban Housing

For at least the last thirty years, I've been hearing "affordable housing" advocates yammer about the high cost of housing, and how working families can no longer afford "decent" housing, which they apparently consider to be the three or...

Just Because You Don't Believe In an Anthropomorphic Deity Doesn't Mean You're Not Religious

Atheists challenge the religious right "I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented," declares Dr. Dawkins, the famed Oxford professor who wrote "The Selfish Gene." These offerings are...

Links and Minifeatures 10 23 Monday (late)

Carnival of Investing Carnival of the Capitalists Carnival of Personal Finance ********** Some welcome news here: Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground' On the other hand: Egyptians who enslaved girl, 10, get U.S. prison Only three years for two years...

Republican or Democrat in 2006: Lazy Larcenous Slugs or Partisan, Obstructionist Civilization Hating Suicide Artists Who Are Also Lazy Larcenous Slugs?

At this point in time, it's looking like Democratic control of the House after the midterms is the likely outcome. Not assured, but likely. Now, it's not like this is a Good Thing; it's not. But let's put it into...

Links and Minifeatures 10 13 Friday the 13th!

Iraq the Model on the Lancet study regarding Iraqi deaths. Dean's World agrees. In the same category, this looks like it's probably political: Coroner says U.S. forces unlawfully killed British TV journalist in Iraq Let's see, two british medical journals...

Links and Minifeatures 10 03 Tuesday

No politics, just my heart goes out to these people: Milk man kills girls at Pa. Amish school. ********** neo-neocon sums up my thoughts on Bob Woodward and State of Denial. Wizbang on asking for Rumsfeld's resignation. Q and O...

Links and Minifeatures 10 02 Monday

Carnival of Personal Finance Recommended: Aridni (some stuff more important than money) Carnival of Real Estate Carnival of the Capitalists Recommended: Econbrowser (debunking another oil conspiracy myth), San Diego Home Blog (doing business with Redfin. Makes me glad I don't...

9/11: Five Years On

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I got a call from my wife that there were reports a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I turned the TV on immediately, and I'm not certain to this day whether...

Links and Minifeatures 08 29 Tuesday (late)

Carnival of Liberty with a Jeopardy theme ********** They must be very close to nuclear weapons: Iran president rejects nuke suspension Reuters had the same story, plus Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to TV debate, and Iran says no one can stop...

My Thoughts on The Situation in Israel and Lebanon and Gaza (July 30th)

First, a warning. There is some foul language below. I found myself unable to discover or remember less colorful words that conveyed adequately the information that needed to be conveyed. Next, a sampling of some of the most current news...

Reflections Approaching Independence Day

Patriotism. The word has come to have all kinds of connotations, many of them negative. Ask ten different people what they think of when they hear patriotism, and you'll get ten different answers. Ask a hundred people, and you'll likely...

Failures of Imagination?

I recently discovered the film Secondhand Lions. Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, and Haley Joel Osmont. Beautiful tightly plotted movie, highly recommended, and if it hadn't been up against Return Of The King it might have won Best Picture. Robert Duvall...

The Illegal Immigration Debate

Michelle Malkin notes the "peaceful" protest that left the head of the Chicago Minutemen hospital-bound for protesting loans to illegal aliens. I could have told them that banks offering loans to illegal immigrants are nothing unusual, but that doesn't...

Critics and the War on Terror

Argghhh! has a wonderful article, including a link to a power point presentation, that indicates the military "gets it" as to what it will require to win the war on terror. Pay particular attention to slide 15. It indicates who...

Bread and Circuses and Entrenched Interests

In World War II, the war effort took a much larger share of GDP and of the federal budget than the war on terror does today. Furthermore, we has 12 million men in uniform out of a population of 160...

The Basis of War

(This was originally going to be part II of Is the United States Worth Defending? but that got too long to continue.) What are my political priorities? Quite simply, I want to make the world as a whole and the...

Is the United States Worth Defending?

The question of where anyone's priorities are begs the question of "Where do your loyalties lie?" I am loyal first to the long term good of humanity. I want as many people as possible to live the best lives possible....

Recent US Political and Military History and the War on Terror

War on Terror: I think Scrappleface sums it up completely: Bush Pushes Funding of 'Fear Gene' Research by Scott Ott (2005-11-18) -- Reacting quickly to new a study, published in the journal Cell, that shows timid mice can be made...

Links and Minifeatures 09 29 Thursday

I know others have reported this, but John Roberts has been confirmed and they're planning his oath ceremonies. The vote was 78-22. Now on to whoever our President chooses for Justice O'Connor's seat. ********** Michael Yon has a new article...