• The properity gospel and remembering who is first among sinners (that would be one’s self).
• The prayer kerfuffle, one claim.
• Zooom.
• Ms Ali seeks sanctuary … from the Dutch?
• Planned Eugenics, err, Parenthood and South Dakota.
• Issue round-up on the candidates.
• NCLB.

• Richard Fernandez, who is in my opinion probably the most insightful conservative essayist blogging, takes on two left-leaning assumption on Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Light mills.
• “Islam is not a religion but a way of life” … in general the notion that one’s religion is “a way of life” seems not a bad one, no?
• Returning to the Island.
• I think the “justification” obvious, it’s that they “hate him”.
• God and politics.

• A book, in which a left wing person discovers that conservatives aren’t boogey men as she’d been led to believe.
• Slo-mo-robo-pro- … wrestling?
• On the Pope and the pill.
• Church, state and aid to schools.
• On Christians forgetting that man is born in sin.
• Global warming and snow in Sydney and summer in Alaska.
• On Feminism.
• The enlightement and Mr Myers.
• Temujin and film … a review.
• Zooooom … not.
• On being a stranger in your own land.
• Here’s a question, how can Scripture be inerrant and seeing through a glass darkly?
• In-trade and the Obama victory lap. And some satire.
• Film upcoming.
• Red in Kyiv.
• Price limits and oil.
• Mr Jindal and Christianity.

I’m in a bit of a time-bind so … today y’all get all the links again.

• A catholic looks at the logic of Sola Scriptura.
• An approach to parenting, at some point you have to let go.
• Another view of the “dying of singing in worship”.
• One blogger recommends another.
• Reporting on Mr Obama in Berlin.
• Nuclear power and safety.
• A somewhat negative Batman review.
• Satan.
• BDS in 1000 words.

I’ve got more, but I’m out of time. Maybe later in the day or tonight.

• On the continued mis-labeling of the Iraq “surge” or keying in on a particular pet peeve of mine.
• Google take on Wiki or why would they even bother is just just part of their net domination schemes?
• Losing your way or casting oneself out on the pack ice.
• Kid names as child abuse or parents and the stupid or evil question.
• A reflection on marriage or and congratulations on an announcement (of a close blog-neighbor).
• An oil rig on an island or beauty is truly important.
• A cache in Iraq or getting kicked in the butt.
• Some of Mr Obama’s remarks or keeping track of the Quaylisms.
• Two hermeutics in collision or Sola Scriptura gone bad.
• A tree in brooklyn or not.
• Orthodoxy in Korea or a news of a small flock.
• A billboard or another way to make a point.
• A Saint remembered or Jews and the Orthodox Christians.
• Unimpressed by Mr Obama’s call to service or calling a spade a spade (perhaps).

• A prayer. Another.
• A very bad pretext for firing a teacher … teaching.
• A really amazingly good primer seen for the foreigner on what it means to be American.
• Noting how the Press, especially the New York Times, has shifted just a tad in their position on the 2nd Amendment (and how it relates to the first).
• Stating many obvious things, which apparently need saying.
• On Monosiga brevicollis, a little (single cellular) bug which is a little interesting.

• Next step in the great retreat (of al-Qaeda), the Afghan Campaign.
• What is most important to Mr Obama. Winning … the election. And the Quayle test.
• On tolerance.
• Petraeus, future President (if he wants it).
• One suggestion for the (far) future of gun control.

• Mere-O looks at Dark Night, oddly enough (I think) forgetting what Chesterton wrote about insanity and rationality.
• Things seen, not seen, and the movie Ostrov (the Island).
• Pondering the modern man, who is too often just a boy.
• Moral luck, to find out what that means … go here.
• Obama and the Middle East trip, in the context of hedgehogs and swans.
• Happy.
• Kiddy shows and Islam, or at least Islamic countries and Sharia law.
• Free speech.
• Rationality and meaning in life.
• Flood-links.

• The story you don’t hear, coming soon to a bookseller near you, the plight of Christians in Iraq.
• Really good criticism of European remarks on Heller.
• Links from Siris.
• How will the mainstream press, or even blogs take this news. Ignore it?
• Of skin and ink.
• Drilling offshore.
• Media bias. Do you think? It’s hard to imagine how they might be more biased.

• Further demonstrations of those things which elected government can’t do.
• Evolution … a conversation.
• St. Basil on free will.
• Sanity tries to surface in Saudi Arabia … but fails?
• Failing miserably but still garnering full support.
• Intel and the mythical HCF instruction.There’s an old joke there. HCF apocrophally was an machine instruction hidden deep in a IBM manual for one of their early mainframes. A programmer was wondering what it did, so he wrote a short program which executed it. And the machine locked up. Hard. He couldn’t bootstrap or get anything to work. Finally he opened the case, and found the processing core smoking. HCF becamde clear. It stood for: Halt and Catch Fire. Heh.

• La Shawn on the Black vote, civil rights and the GOP.
• Cool tech, especially for the industrial controls crowd, which I’m sure is a big plurality in my readership … not (but it’s not unrelated to my day job). 🙂
• On oil prices and speculation.
• On Julian Schwinger, and his body of work.
• Hijinks between plants and animals.
• On moral order and nature.
• Immutable. Mutable. Hmm.
• A weekend suggestion.
• God and the slugger.
• A neat gadget.
• Every car should install one.
• An interesting take on the Myers kerfuffle.
• East and West.
• Africa. A map. I suppose it would be less impressive to drop Russia + Antartica in there, which also equal Africa in square footage.
• Two speeches. Two takes. Left. Right.

I’m short on time today, so y’all get the whole kaboodle cross posted from my blogs “Morning Highlights” feature. Question. Should I make that my normal practice? or not?

• Looking closer, critically, at Mr Obama’s choices for foreign policy advice. I wonder what their take is on this.
• The Tina Turner song, “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, answered in that it’s all about the love.
• Someone pumped to see an Aussie in yellow … and might I mention a fellow from the town in which I live in 3rd. Some analysis of the tactics of the last stage here. Plus, an interesting take on the French and the king-of-the-mountain.
• 10 points-to-ponder on marriage from Kim Fabricus. Family life and the joys therein.
• If I were a proponent of the anthropogenic origins of global warming … I’d be embarrassed.
• The actual withdrawal plan.

• I wonder if this ecumenical statement could be transferred to other (political or social) division as well? The phrase “distinctions stiffened into contradictions” is one to remember.
• Attempting to be charitable on the theological statements of Mr Obama.
• Odierno and Petraeus … or cream rises.
• Music and the evangelical?
• On Mr Obama’s plan to withdraw 2 brigades each month from Iraq for 16 months after taking office.
• Parental rights.

• One view of Christianity, and CS Lews “acid wit”.
• Hooky stories.
• Agora links.
• Personal Jesus (not the song).
• On Theocracy.
• Laptops in the near future. Cool.
• I can’t guess what gas prices will make such vending machines will be a common sight. Can you? And why I’m a road biker.

• Our current preference for the tarnished anti-hero … in film.
• A valiant attempt to explain Sola Scriptura.
• Contra the language/thought police.
• Calling prayer a good habit … is not right. Is breathing a good habit?
• Animation or real?