Archive for November, 2007



American Spectator wrote Friday James Dobson was going to endorse Republican candidate Mike Huckabee.
Paul Weyrich, founder of the Free Congress Foundation and co-founder of the Moral Majority, says he just saw an email from James Dobson in which Dobson “denies ferociously that he has decided to endorse Huckabee. He said it was made up. He has [...]

I wish every legislator and every bureaucrat in Canada had time to watch this presentation by Larry Lessig. It’s one of the clearest presentations of revision of copyright law I’ve ever seen.
He uses John Phillip Sousa, BMI and airplanes to explain open source. Sound boring?
Far from it.
The Bush/Blair remix is more than worth your time.
You’ll come [...]

A lot of people in the US were either upset at Stephen Colbert’s ‘presidental run’ or all for it to the point there are still sites online urging people to sign up and get him to run.
Canada has a tradition of spoof parties - and The Rhinos are back. They are called the Neorhinos and [...]

Michael Ignatieff has a blog. He posts regularly. No comment section though, given it is © 2007. Authorized by the Official Agent for Michael Ignatieff and part of his riding site, I don’t see why he can’t have a comment section and one of his people moderate it.
I know he is professorial, but it’s doable to be [...]

A lawyer claiming to represent the developer of video games based on Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’ “Left Behind” novels refused to accept a certified letter from the Baptist Center for Ethics answering allegations that EthicsDaily.com carried statements about the game that were “false and misleading.”
EthicsDaily.com was one of several Web and blog sites in [...]

This is an interesting twist to the SBC powers that be to the practise of blogging, of calls for transparency, the right to dissent and toward a man who while conservative, has fought for less neoconservative strongholds in the SBC and for his denominations missions and missionaries.
He has been through hell the past few years, and [...]

Active duty Canadian military are receiving specially designed bibles with camouflage covers.
 

The bibles are designed and given by The Canadian Bible Society  and offer the Old and New Testament for the first time. There are Protestant and Catholic versions, available in English and French. 
125 thousand dollars for the print runs of 5 thousand for each of the four editions was raised [...]



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