Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Morning at Monticello

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As noted earlier , I had plans to attend the annual naturalization ceremony at Monticello this morning, which I did. The ceremony, part of t...

"Thoughts" for Independence Day

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From an Independence Day reflection written by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan , as she flatly abandons principled dissent and replaces it w...
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The Declaration of Independence

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What better way to begin Independence Day than with a reading of the Declaration of Independence? The text here was cribbed from the Cato ...

Idi Amin and the Raid on Entebbe

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Aside from being the 230th anniversary of American independence, the Fourth of July this year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the raid on...

The Citizenship Test

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ImNotEmeril has a link to an online citizenship test that asks some of the same questions that immigrants seeking naturalization have to a...
Monday, July 03, 2006

Mask & Bauble at the Georgetown Reunion

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The image to your left is a stained-glass window in St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, which serves the students of th...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Flag Fetishization Fails

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Shame on the United States Senate! On Tuesday, the world's greatest deliberative body came within one vote of amending the U.S. Constit...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Twin Carnivals

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Jason Kenney hosts this week's Virginia Blog Carnival , presenting it in a carnival-barker style that compels you to look behind the sid...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Karen Hospital Revisited

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To my surprise, one of the more popular posts on this blog has been my collection of photographs of Karen Hospital near Nairobi , which I to...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Yet Another Carnival of Liberty Is Up

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So many carnivals, so little time. The 50th installment of the Carnival of Liberty is now available to read at TuCents , which has quite a...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Breaking News from the Gay Games

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Somehow I got put on a press list for Gay Games VII , which are taking place this year in Chicago. I just opened up my email box and found ...
Monday, June 19, 2006

My Lunch with Dick Cheney

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Through a confluence of happy accidents, I ended up spending a couple of hours today at the National Press Club, where Vice President Dick C...
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

More on the Virginia Bloggers' Summit

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You didn't think I would limit my discussion of the second annual Summit on Blogging and Democracy in the Commonwealth with just a few c...