Ignoring slavery in Venezuela Venezuelan big mouth hugo chavez says he will give the race warlord Danny Glover $18-million dollars to finance a move. The topic? Slavery, of course. From The Guardian Unlimited: Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, [...]
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Did he read the bill? Florida’s junior senator Mel Martinez has announced his support for the immigration reform bill currently before the Congress. Supporters have said that once we read the bill and understand it, we will favor it . Hugh Hewitt has read the bill and finds a lot at fault. Here’s my question [...]
Internet poker, Big Brother, chess and bots Big Brother Strikes Again Now that the United States government has shut down on-line poker – in their noble effort to guard morality by preventing innocent Americans from gambling away their government-sponsored lottery winnings – I am thoroughly confused. Why, I wonder, is gambling by playing poker, which [...]
More on religious politics Yesterday, Hugh Hewitt called for comments on a couple of paragraphs from a Jonathan Rauch article in The Atlantic. Hugh couldn’t link to the entire article because it was subscriber only. I commented here. Last night, Rauch appeared on Hugh’s radio show to discuss the article. He came to the conclusion [...]
There’s a lot of talk about the recent French elections. One candidate, Jean Le Pen – a right-winger, anti-crime, anti-immigration – won 17% of the vote and will face current prime minister Jaques Chirac in a runoff. There’s lots of speculation that Le Pen’s voters don’t really support his policies but want to send a [...]