No, but all media members support gun control.

Read Shapiro: The Left bullies the NRA

http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2012/12/26/the-left-bullies-the-nra-n1473875/page/full/

Problem is that most people support right to bear hunting guns, handguns and other such like, but very few support assault rifles in anyones hand.

I read the Hapgood translation on my iPad a few years ago and enjoyed it very much, other than the aforementioned sewer description. The Waterloo scenes had little to do with the plot but were very interesting. I do not know how historically accurate they were not being a military historian but very very interesting.

The priest, Val Jean and redemption and the fact of judgmentalism in the world was impressive. The American ideal that anyone can rise from anywhere to any height just didn't exist in France of the day. I could begin to talk of what redemtion truly means, but suffice to say that it is not what you believe, but what you do.

I agree, it was my favorite line of the debate. While we all can commend individuals who rise above their circumstances, why should we encourage the choice of such circumstances. I am a Pediatrician and I see family after family who confirms what we all know, Mom and Dad together results in much better outcomes on average, regardless of individual outliers. Marriage is still an important institution and divorce should be safe and legal but RARE.

I must say that the most important point is that we spend so much time arguing about polls that there is no time to analyze what positions  would mean for the country. The difference in the vision of the two sides are very far apart, but those differences are seldom explored, One side calls the other a name, the media gets a response and than we turn to the poll to see who got the better of the exchange. This is professional punditry?, What a joke.

Shane was more of a novella, but it translated to a classic western.

I second LOTR, the most amazing feat of book adaptation yet, but it did make many changes, some of which I hated (Faramir was ruined) and it took three extended films to do completely. Ther amazing thing is how well the three films could each  stand alone as their own story in regular and extended editions.

It is also important to note how difficult it is to hold one man responsible for everything his government does. It is their ideas, philospophy and associations which inform everything a president does, not the specifics of each issue. Ronald Reagan was a great man and the effect he had on our government is best seen in these small issues, he did not let the little government men stop him from saying what he knew to be true.

As usual I really enjoy the flagship podcast and am now reading James Pethokoukis, great stuff, I have a lot of catching up to do.

On a lighter note did I perceive a bit of Apple bashing?

Clearly the argument is not what the constitution says, or what those who wrote it said about what they wrote, but what the elites of today have to say about what should be there. We keep fighting these battles about what is there while our opponents argue with voters about what they want, need, should have etc.

Until we start to have these discussions in high schools around the country we will never change anything.

It has always seemed crazy that people screamed about this, I think it was because the opportunity presented itself rather than they really cared one way or the other. Get Bush, Oh, he tortured people, he is a bad man.

When it comes to interrogation, even good cop bad cop can be torture.

Maybe John Yoo can interview Denzel?

 It is important that we continually remind people this is like the issue with gun ownership; it is constitutional religous freedom, not only a Catholic issue

 For those who attend church of many different types this kind of scene is common. Jesus called his house a house of prayer. Laying on of hands is a common doctrine for all Christians.

Clearly the fight is the fact that those who believe are strange to those who do not, and vice versa.

This truly is the biggest issue; dancing with the devil will never lead to a good outcome.

 Korea had a vibrant Christian coomunity prior to the current regime. The great leader purged Jesus out of popular songs from the churches of the day and replaced it with his own name; they still sing them today.

The great Presbyterian missionary Jonathan Goforth worked with those people and wrote about his experiences.

So, after Iraq etc. should regime change be the policy?

 So how do we craft this so that the majority of Americans can see and be appalled by the tyranny? Can Mitt Romney even begin to touch this? For many it doesn't matter because it doesn't affect them directly, but as they say, "you are next".

 Listening to James and Rob on dogs I thought of this

http://www.wendyfrancisco.com/

Great podcast, I started with number one; I do miss Mark Steyn now and then, but it just gets better and better.

Is the newt bashing starting to unravel as the coordinated smear that it is? 

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2012/01/video-of-newt-bashing-reagan-is-bogus.html