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Jackson County Revisited

Last week saw my return to CAP for a week of WorkFest 2009. For all of you who yearn for the simpler days of hotterthannewlove, this is your encore. I stayed with my good friends Ross and Sarah in lovely Berea, KY, in the guest quarters of their chateau, a lovely spring rendezvous. Kentucky was [...]

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AmeriCorps federalizing volunteerism.

I just saw today that the Senate voted to triple the size of AmeriCorps, in a further attempt to federalize every single part of the American life. The public sector is now seeping into volunteer life. The main problem with this expansion is twofold I think. One: This is the government stepping into an area [...]

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Steyn online

Hilarious article from one of the funniest men anywhere. Liberals are often thrown by the accent and the witty banter, but when their arguments are reduced to rubble with style and charisma, they wonder how they bought everything their professors said even when they didn’t have accents.

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G. K. Chesterton on Nature

“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth [...]

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Question.

Why is it that loud farts in quiet places like libraries are that much more funny than a fart of the same magnitude in another place? Why is it that on Yahoo! hot jobs search site, a “Chief Aviation Planner” at St. Louis airport and a manager at a Sonic drive in are on the [...]

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Maybe experience does count for something after all…

This is a hilarious excerpt from the always entertaining Mark Steyn. You can find the whole article here. “British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an [...]

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