Obama drops 'Creator' from Declaration quote

I realize that WorldNetDaily tends to wax hysterical over anything it can, and writes everything at SCREAM!!!!! level. And if it was just this one time, well, even Jove nods, and anyone can make a mistake. But Obama has a deeply entrenched habit of doing this sort of thing over and over and over, and ( Read more... )

Cults: fleeing into the peace and safety of a new dark age

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/02/democratic-lawmaker-dont-worry-constitution-health-care-overhaul/?test=latestnews

Who needs that damned Constitution when you're "helping" people? ( Read more... )

“Dixie,” lyrics by Daniel D. Emmet, 1859. In 1859, Daniel Emmet, a member of the popular troupe of “Bryant’s Minstrels,” was asked to provide a new song for a change of repertoire. Emmet arrived at the first rehearsal with “Dixie.”   Although written by a native of Ohio, “Dixie” was picked up in New Orleans a year after its appearance, and from ( Read more... )