Category Archives: Humanity

Obey The Orszaganization

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Gaius

Patriotic Americans know when to die – The Anchoress Throw mama under the health plan – Three beers later Contest! Supply a fitting slogan: ObamaCare! __________________________! As in ObamaCare! We Decide, seniors die! Guess what lefties? You’ll get old, too. … Continue reading →

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Mastah Preddi

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Gaius

When 27-year-old Army lieutenant Fred Hargesheimer's P-38 Lightning was shot down on June 5, 1943 over New Britain he had no idea whether he would live or die. Below him was a forbidding jungle, reputedly filled with headhunters. Instead he … Continue reading →

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The Lines That Never End

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Gaius

A very interesting article in the Washington Post by Mark Winne, the former director of Connecticut's Hartford Food System and a 25-year veteran of food bank programs. In it he explains how he came to recognize something awful about food handout … Continue reading →

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Fancy New Name, Same Old Problem

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Gaius

I'm not picking on T-Steel, who posts over at The Moderate Voice. I just happen to have taken exception to a couple of his posts in the past few days when I saw them pop up on Memeorandum. Today he … Continue reading →

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What A Genocidal Government Looks Like

Posted on January 6, 2007 by Gaius

To many in the West these days, America is the villain. They scold at every turn, pretty much no matter what we do as a nation. They decry our foreign policies. They moan about our efforts at globalization. They screech … Continue reading →

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Modest Hero

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Gaius

This guy deserves a medal. It was every subway rider’s nightmare, times two. Who has ridden along New York’s 656 miles of subway lines and not wondered: “What if I fell to the tracks as a train came in? What … Continue reading →

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The Hardest Service

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Gaius

A beautifully written article in today's Washington Post by Neely Tucker reminds us of the last, hardest, public service that is rendered by a former First Lady. That of burying her husband in the full glare of publicity. Betty Ford … Continue reading →

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Never Again

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Gaius

I make it a point to try to mention things like this when they happen. We need more of this. American Muslims gathered for a ceremony to commemorate Jews murdered in Nazi death camps at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, … Continue reading →

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Sixteen Miles Of Tears

Posted on November 18, 2006 by Gaius

Imagine a trail of paper that documents terror and death. Imagine the voices of people caught up in those events. Their voices long silent now, but the paper remains. A voiceless echo of the pain and suffering. The screams and … Continue reading →

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The Actions Of Barbarians

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Gaius

Two years ago, the Iranian clerical courts had a 16-year old girl executed. Her crime? She was raped by a 51 year old former Revolutionary Guard member. The BBC actually published this story, which surprises me. They did go to … Continue reading →

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UN “Reforms”

Posted on June 30, 2006 by Gaius

The UN made a huge show of reforming it's Human Rights Council. It's first order of business was to re-institute the habit of the old council to bash Israel first at every meeting.  The new UN Human Rights Council voted … Continue reading →

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Star For A Day

Posted on June 18, 2006 by Gaius

A six year old girl from Boise Idaho became a superhero named Star for a day: When she donned her blue and metallic superhero costume, Star took on the super-powers of X-ray vision, superhuman strength, speed and blowing power — and … Continue reading →

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This Is Just A Nice Story

Posted on May 31, 2006 by Gaius

Frank and Anita Milford of England have just celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary. The pair met as teenagers at a dance in Plymouth, southern England, in 1926 and married two years later. Asked for the secret of their enduring union, … Continue reading →

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Perfection At The Cost Of Humanity?

Posted on May 29, 2006 by Gaius

The Daily Mail has a disturbing – no, that's wrong – appalling story that a fairly large number of late term abortions have been performed because the fetus had what are considered very minor, fully treatable birth defects. The ethical … Continue reading →

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About Angels

Posted on April 22, 2006 by Gaius

The Seattle Post Intelligencer ran an essay by a soldier who recently returned from Iraq. It's one of the most moving pieces I have read. On this particular day one of the locals had his little girl with him. She was … Continue reading →

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