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This is certainly interesting. Vatican to announce St. Paul's tomb found. No matter what your politics, we all ought to be happy that we have new media and mediums in which we can attempt to level the playing field with large players who would have us think they know what we need, and know how to put one right by us. Examples: Fair is fair. Lots of folks got all steamed when the Knights of Columbus and other Christian groups got some help from across the border. I say, so what? No one gets too concerned when labour or environmentalists share resources across the border. Justice is blind- if you're lucky. It turns out that many of the legal critics of Stephen Harper's notable speech in parliament last week are members or donors of the Liberal Party. Now why would a reputable unbiased paper like the Toronto Star forget to mention things like that? In Canada, securities sales people are now required by law to state if they have any interest or holdings in stocks and whatnot that they promote. Perhaps journalists should have a similar requirement? Francis Poretto looks at how the MSM runs at G.W. Bush:
Dubya's ascendancy, his fearlessness in political discourse, his obvious mastery of political maneuver, and above all his unconcealed Christianity have driven the Left half out of its mind. Their attitude is parallel to that of Agent Smith in the first Matrix movie: this was supposed to be their time. They'd spent seventy years building toward it. For this swaggering Crawford cowboy from a blue-blooded Republican family to stride into their carefully constructed liberal-socialist tableau and upend their applecart as he has is simply not to be tolerated -- and tolerate it, they shall not...
Homeschool kids get into it and lambaste cartoonist for bias and stereotyping. Brandon at Sirius offers more erudite thoughts on Natural Law. Lydia Lorvic offers advice to Prince Charles and anyone else getting married for the second time. Finally, a non media related link. Rebecca and I went for a day trip on Sunday and she has the pictures on her blog to prove it. That's why I was awol from here most of the weekend.

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