Rockstar KP's Web Valut

1. Good work, Feinstein: Senator blabs that U.S. drones are based in … Pakistan

2. D’oh! Caterpillar CEO Contradicts President on Whether Stimulus Will Allow Him to Re-Hire Laid Off Workers

3. When a ‘Tax Cut’ Isn’t a Tax Cut

4. Lincoln’s Wish: Perpetual Peace and Friendship Between the U.S. and Britain

5. # 5: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years [Michael Poliakoff]

   

   300 (2007): During the Bush years, Hollywood neglected the heroism of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan—but it did release this action film about martial honor, unflinching courage, and the oft-ignored truth that freedom isn’t free. Beneath a layer of egregious non-history—including goblin-like creatures that belong in a fantasy epic—is a stylized story about the ancient battle of Thermopylae and the Spartan defense of the West’s fledgling institutions. It contrasts a small band of Spartans, motivated by their convictions and a commitment to the law, with a Persian horde that is driven forward by whips. In the words recorded by the real-life Herodotus: “Law is their master, which they fear more than your men[, Xerxes,] fear you.”

   — Michael Poliakoff, a classicist, is vice president for academic affairs at the University of Colorado.
   

6. “Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no.”
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8. Love is in the Details
   Rev. Kev. points to an interesting blog at First Things. “In a age where romantic love equals sex and sentimentality, and on the eve of the eve of Valentine’s Day, I found the article’s depiction of marital love to be quite moving, in spite of (or is it because of?) the earthiness of the subject matter.”
9. A Review of The Shack
   This one is short and just plain funny.

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