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Why the Mythbusters won’t do RFID — Adam Savage on Youtube

READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States — Alan Maimon, Las Vegas Review-Journal

Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son — Mensah M. Dean, Philadelphia Daily News

Clunkers in Practice — Wall Street Journal

“…Burton Abrams and George Parsons of the University of Delaware added up the total benefits from reduced gas consumption, environmental improvements and the benefit to car buyers and companies, minus the overall cost of cash for clunkers, and found a net cost of roughly $2,000 per vehicle. Rather than stimulating the economy, the program made [...]

Presidential Control Freaks Ruin Democracies — Alexandre Marinis, Bloomberg.com

Feral Houses — jdg, Sweet Juniper!

Obama is Hiding His Budget Update from Congress and the American People — Kim Priestap, Wizbang

In West Wing: Grueling Schedules, Bleary Eyes — Michael D. Shear, Washington Post

Adrenaline-junkie behavior is rampant in the current occupant of the White House and his staff: “…Behind the scenes, it was even worse. The night before Obama announced the administration’s housing plan on Feb. 18 in Arizona, Sperling e-mailed the final documents at 3 a.m. and asked for comments. Five people responded immediately. Martin Moore-Ede, a former Harvard [...]

Honduras Defends Its Democracy — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ

“Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.”

The Case for Commissioning (Not Ordaining) Deaconesses — Tim Keller, byFaith Magazine

Zombie Animals and the Parasites that Control Them — Discover Magazine

The night we waved goodbye to America… our last best hope on Earth — Peter Hitchens, UK Daily Mail

This article is quite melancholy, but hard to argue with.

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Anger Is Crowds Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally — Michael D. Shear and Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post

Can’t say that I blame them.

‘Basic Instinct’ author writes book about faith — Toledo Blade

A ‘Frankenrobot’ with a biological brain — AFP on Breitbart

No, this story isn’t about a supporter of the senate campaign of a certain “comedian” from Minnesota…

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol — Chris Ayres, London Times Online

Elements categorized in Genesis 1

…and they’re all there, right from the beginning.

Meditation in a Toolshed — C.S. Lewis

“I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place. Everything else was [...]

Exposure to the Elements.

[Well, after a few attempts at mucking around in the MYSQL database followed by a frantic restoration from backup each time, I have resigned myself to the fact that all the new categories I am about to introduce will not be perfectly ordered and numbered, mostly because the latest version of WordPress will brook no [...]