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for Americans who want America to be more like Europe: Amanda Knox Indicted for Slander by Italian Court - ABC News : "American student Amanda Knox was indicted for a second time by an Italian court today, this time for allegedly slandering Italian police for saying they were abusive when they interrogated her for the murder of her roommate. - Sent using Google Toolbar" Europe has a lot of great things, it has some problems too...

Open Mic at the iMonk Cafe: “Mere Christianity” Christians | internetmonk.com : "Chaplain Mike says: January 3, 2010 at 8:45 pm The following quote from Herman Bavinck, Reformed theologian, showed up on Boar’s Head Tavern recently: [W]e must remind ourselves that the Catholic righteousness by good works is vastly preferable to a protestant righteousness by good doctrine. At least righteousness by good works benefits one’s neighbor, whereas righteousness by good doctrine only produces lovelessness and pride. Furthermore, we must not blind ourselves to the tremendous faith, genuine repentence, complete surrender and the fervent love for God and neighbor evident in the lives and work of many Catholic Christians. The Christian life is so rich that it develops its full glory not just in a single form or within the walls of one church. Now there’s a truly Reformed guy who gets it. - Sent using Google Toolbar" Not sure if I agree, but if he said it, I want to think about it.

Another Threat to Economy: Boomers Cutting Back - WSJ.com : "* 2 hours ago * Richard Stave wrote: As a boomer and survivor of many poorly executed plans hatched by all forms of self-interested parties I would like to remain pragmatically optimistic. There were never enough desks, books, teachers or educational resources yet somehow I learned. There were never enough jobs to accommodate our numbers yet I learned how to accept lower compensation to make room for people from all walks of life while competing in a global marketplace. ... (I disagree with the last two paragaphs of the full article, though)

The Puffington Host | The New Republic : "06/01/2009 - 2:00pm EDT | teppy (user comment) The politics of PuffHo is secondary to the celebrity appeal: it has much more in common with the old 'Entertainment Tonight' fluff TV show than with TNR or The Nation. Arianna's not really a political activist; she's a media entrepreneur. Her political stands are just publicity vehicles for her core product, which is The Arianna Persona. [insert white space here] The reason that her latest product marketing campaign has succeeded so brilliantly is that it fuses, in almost ideal form, the two forces that drive a large part of consumer traffic in online media: celebrity gossip + ideological tribalism. Arianna understood, as Jan Wenner did with Rolling Stone and maybe JFK Jr did with his 1990s ... view full comment The politics of PuffHo is secondary to the celebrity appeal: it has much more in common with the old 'Entertainment Tonight' fluff TV show than with TNR or The...

Stephens: From WikiLeaks to the Killing Fields - WSJ.com : "The Cambodian genocide is especially worth recalling today not only for what it was, but for the public debates in the West that immediately preceded it. 'The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns,' said then-congressman, now senator, Chris Dodd, by way of making the case against the Ford administration's bid to extend military assistance to the pro-American government of Lon Nol. In the New York Times, Sydney Schanberg reported from Cambodia that 'it is difficult to imagine how [Cambodian] lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone.' Mr. Schanberg added that 'it would be tendentious to forecast [genocide] as a national policy under a Communist government once the war is over.' - Sent using Google Toolbar"