http://www.donaldsensing.com Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:26:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My co-bloggers and I have founded a new blog called Sense of Events. This site will stay here, but new content at this URL will be very infrequent, if at all. I actually started double-posting entries there at the end of October, but for the past few days I have ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1629 Is there such a thing? Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock says yes, and it’s literally killing black men. time savedtime saved http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1628 Arthur Herman, writing recently on OpinionJournal, says that Winston Churchill understood that the Jews are the bedrock of Western tradition. A student of history, Churchill came to feel that Judaism was the bedrock of traditional Western moral and political principles–and Churchill was of a generation that preferred to talk about principles ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1627 Palestinian Media Watch reports, Just a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the Annapolis peace conference pledged to negotiate a peace treaty by the end of 2008, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority continues to paint a picture for its people of a world without Israel. An information clip produced by the Palestinian ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1626 ABC News reports, When we sit, the researchers [at the University of Missouri] found, the enzymes that are responsible for burning fat just shut down. The researchers injected fat containing a radioactive tracer into laboratory animals and human volunteers. The radioactive tracer revealed that when the animals were sitting down, the fat ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1624 Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history at Evergreen State College, asks why anyone needs the state’s permission to marry. It’s not an unreasonable question. For most of Western history, they didn’t, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents’ agreement to the match, not the approval of church ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1622 But when the “bride” and groom are both wanted terrorists, what do you call that? I guess an unsuccessful evasion technique: BAGHDAD (CNN) — Soldiers manning a checkpoint near Baghdad stopped a wedding convoy to find that the purported bride and groom were wanted terror suspects, an Iraqi Defense Ministry official ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1621 Although the total number of terrorist roadside bombs, IEDs, in the Baghdad area is decreasing, the number of the most lethal kind of bombs is increasing. There’s been no letup in attacks and weapons-smuggling by Iranian-backed Shiite militants in some parts of Iraq’s capital, the area’s top U.S. commander said Monday. The ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1620 A UK Telegraph columnist reports, … the latest US satellite figures [show] temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1619 The Daily Tech asks, “Will the UN’s scenario for AIDS repeat for global warming reports?” A new report from the United Nations acknowledges the agency has routinely overstated both the size and growth rate of the AIDS epidemic. … Critics have long maintained the U.N. overstated cases to gain political ... http://www.donaldsensing.com/?p=1617