Monthly Archives: July 2007

Dear Mexico

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

This was posted as a comment on Larry Elder’s article, ‘Illegal Immigrant to America’ which you can read here: http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder072607.php3 Dear Mexico, After many years of having you dump your potential troublemakers and revolutionaries on the US, so that your … Continue reading →

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How my son got his name

Posted on July 25, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

Well I promised I’d tell the story of how my son got his name, and here it is. I wrote this shortly after the event and published it in Liberty magazine. Since then I’ve noticed something about the reactions to … Continue reading →

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Fritz the Cat, his own personal 60s

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

Last night I watched Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat for the first time in… a long time. Fritz was Bakshi’s first feature film, and the most commercially successful. The fate of Bakshi’s subsequent works seems to have been to flop … Continue reading →

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Finally saw Apocalypto

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

We finally watched Apocalypto last night. It was unfortunately a marred library DVD so we periodically had to fiddle with the controls and change players when the scene froze, and missed some seconds of the action, of course right at … Continue reading →

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A man out of time – or ahead of it

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.” – G.K. Chesterton After perusing this post, go here: http://www.chesterton.org/acs/quotes.htm It’s a page of G.K. Chesterton quotes, with source identified for each. I … Continue reading →

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How I got married in Poland

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

A version of this was originally published in Liberty magazine, around the time of the events described.********************************************************************************** We wanted to get married. We’d been heading in that direction but we hadn’t been in any hurry. It was Monika that first … Continue reading →

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The order of succession

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

With all the focus on Iran and the possibility of an “Islamic bomb” these days, the fact that there already is one seems to have slipped between the cracks of our collective conscious. Pakistan is a nuclear power. At present … Continue reading →

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7/7/7 Happy 100th Bob

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

Today, Saturday 7/7/7 is the hundredth anniversary of SF author Robert Anson Heinlein’s birth. It’s actually difficult to write anything about Heinlein that wouldn’t lengthen into a book by way of digressions, qualifications and defenses against some of the more … Continue reading →

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Happy Fourth of July

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”Leviticus 25:10 The last letter from Thomas Jefferson’s pen. To Roger C. Weightman June 24, 1826 RESPECTED SIR The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the … Continue reading →

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Lessons from history

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

“It’s not so much that History repeats herself, it’s that sometimes she screams “Won’t you ever listen to what I’m trying to tell you?” and lets fly with a club.” -John W. Campbell Over at Ilana Mercer’s blog http://www.ilanamercer.com/ there … Continue reading →

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