John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 10, 2012, 11:59 am
In today’s column, atheist Charles Krauthammer writes as cogently on the intersection of faith and politics as any M.Div scholar: Catholic soup kitchens do not demand religious IDs from either the hungry they feed or the custodians they employ. Catholic charities and hospitals — even Catholic s...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 10, 2012, 11:00 am
Us!!! Wow, just wow. I think officially this award is for “blogger” – not blog – of the year, and I’m not trying to be humble in saying that this honor really does belong to John. I went from being a part-time, but fairly consistent blogger in 2009 and 2010 to virtually disappearing last y...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 10, 2012, 9:09 am
Amazing night last night at Blog Bash. Morgen and I were awarded Blogger of the Year honors and a second award for our work covering OWS. I have a couple of nice glass trophies to bring home Sunday. This morning I’m looking to get to some photo availabilities: Ann Coulter at 10:50 am Rick Santo...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 9, 2012, 5:13 pm
He was wounded in the shooting:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 9, 2012, 1:47 pm
Allahpundit nails it. Not only has the left retreated from anti-war activity in the age of Obama, they’ve actually signed on to the same programs they despised under Bush: The poll shows that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and 67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 8, 2012, 1:27 pm
I’m going to be traveling to Washington today for CPAC 2012, so blogging will suffer. I hope to have some good reports and photos from the conference starting tomorrow. OWS has promised to crash the party so it’s likely to be a dramatic few days.  
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 8, 2012, 12:52 pm
Turns out explaining the President’s massive hypocrisy isn’t always easy. Three minutes into this clip Carney gets pretty snippy under tough questioning from Norah O’Donnell: Click here to view the embedded video. O’Donnell: He’s finally relented and said Right, the Republican have so mu...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 8, 2012, 12:34 pm
I don’t post this as a report on the debate at the UN, I post it to point out how thin Russia’s excuses for backing Assad really are. The party line is that Russia wanted a more neutral stance between the government and the protesters, which is sort of like demanding a neutral stance between Naz...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 8, 2012, 11:28 am
I love the Daily Mail. I really do. It frequently does a more honest job covering US politics than domestic papers which all too frequently have an axe to grind. But once in a while their lack of familiarity with the American scene is evident, as in this snippet from today’s edition: Republican m...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 8, 2012, 10:57 am
Here’s a portion of the letter she posted on her Facebook page: Dear Friend, As you may be aware, a group known as Occupy Nashville has essentially taken up residence on War Memorial Plaza across the street from the Capitol. While describing themselves as protesters, they are actually something ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 3, 2012, 1:05 pm
Accuracy in Media spent some time at the McPherson Square camp. Today they posted this video showing some of the highlights from those visits:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 3, 2012, 12:57 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. Here’s hoping that life sentence is a short one.
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 3, 2012, 12:40 pm
The Ayatollah is talking tough and seems to be offering support to anyone who will attack Israel:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 3, 2012, 12:31 pm
That was quick: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Planned Parenthood supposedly receives this money for offering breast health exams, but in fact they offer no mammograms anywhere in the country. What they offer are physical exams and referrals. In other words, the same sort of thing tha...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 3, 2012, 11:58 am
Click here to view the embedded video. Eric Cantor’s message: We can do better. Click here to view the embedded video.
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 3, 2012, 2:31 am
Local Santa Barbara news outlet Noozhawk has the story: The Santa Barbara Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying those involved with a recent rash of vandalism in the Mesa area, including a Wells Fargo ATM that has been damaged on several occasions. The most recent event o...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 2, 2012, 5:12 pm
Mark Berndt was a 3rd grade teacher in LA who has been charged with 23 counts of lewd acts. The investigation began when a photo processing center saw a disturbing image and turned it over to police. In January 2011 investigators showed the photos to school superintendents who moved to immediately f...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 2, 2012, 4:21 pm
Why did Graham put this out now? Why not a week ago when it might have helped Gingrich? Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 2, 2012, 3:40 pm
This apparently started as a protest of police who reportedly did little to stop the soccer riot which claimed 73 lives yesterday. It looks like things got out of hand:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Feb 2, 2012, 2:31 pm
Here are opening statements from Issa and Holder: Click here to view the embedded video. Here’s one of the more contentious bits: Click here to view the embedded video. Amazing how Holder’s subordinates knew nothing about an ongoing operation (for over a year) which consumed manpower and res...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 24, 2012, 12:04 am
I hadn’t realized he’s got a book coming out. That explains the interview and the fact that most of these talking points sound like the ones he gave here. In any case, this is a bit odd: As anger rises, riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable. “Yes, yes, yes,” he says, almost...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 6:15 pm
Approved today. So does Iran fire off a missile tomorrow or kidnap someone? Maybe both? It’s too bad we spent 2-3 years pretending Iran wasn’t working on a bomb. Thanks a lot Mohammed ElBaradei!
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 5:50 pm
The Washington Post has an article describing charges against John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent who allegedly leaked classified information about US interrogation techniques to reporters during 2008: Kiriakou, who was among the first to go public with details about the CIA’s use of water-boarding...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 4:19 pm
The man is a US Senator. If he’s a threat to the safety of the plane we have bigger problems: Par for the course, the TSA denies he was detained. Sure, whatever Blogger Bob. Just go back to patting down 6 year olds and telling us it’s necessary for our safety. The Daily Caller spoke to Sen. P...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 3:53 pm
Sounds like a full mental recovery is possible but physical problems are likely to persist:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 2:32 pm
The Muslim Brotherhood holds roughly half the seats and the more extreme Islamists hold another 25%:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 1:51 pm
Somebody shared this with me yesterday and I think it makes the best case for Newt that I’ve seen, certainly better than anything put together by Newt’s video team or his SuperPac: Click here to view the embedded video. I know, it’s just 47 minutes of Newt bashing the media. Yes, that’s ri...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 12:33 pm
It’s believed tornadoes whipped through parts of Alabama overnight, killing at least 2 people: Click here to view the embedded video. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency after the predawn storms struck the Birmingham area, with the towns of Center Point and Trussville j...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 12:13 pm
Foreign commercial. Clever concept. I’m thinking it loses something when you can understand Megan:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 23, 2012, 12:07 pm
West Park Presbyterian Church has been allowing Occupiers to stay in its sanctuary overnight. That was a mistake: Rev. Bob Brashear noticed before Sunday services that parts of the font at West Park Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York, had vanished. ‘It was like p*****g on the 99 per cent...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 7:55 pm
It’s stupidity like this that makes me wonder how the media gets away with framing these folks as anything but socialist revolutionaries:
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 3:36 pm
The Center for Public Integrity released a new report on Obama’s 2012 bundlers yesterday: Dozens of Obama’s elite donors — many of them wealthy business figures — have been appointed to advisory panels and commissions that can play a role in setting government policy. Others have been invit...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 2:56 pm
That’s the bottom line you get from this interview between socialist Lawrence O’Donnell and his two guests including the execrable Toure’: MSNBC is so repulsive  these days I’m not sure how it could get worse.
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 2:35 pm
I guess it’s only Republicans whose actions have racial overtones. That’s what you’d think from the coverage. But I’m probably not the only person to notice that the Obamas seem to be positioning themselves prior to November. Last week Michelle Obama announced that she was not an angry black...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 1:34 pm
So let me get this straight. David I-sleep-with-my-interns Letterman ran a list mocking Newt Gingrich’s sexual peccadilloes? Talk about tone deaf: Letterman is just an older version of Bill Maher.
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 1:14 pm
But don’t worry, they won’t shine them on abortion centers (they really promise that): The worst part is that this is bound to show up in some crappy sci-fi movie by the Wachowski brothers.
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 12:28 pm
Yesterday I predicted the interview with Newt’s ex could backfire on the media. I wrote: the calculation is that dropping this now could affect the votes of conservative, religious South Carolinians. But the timing of this old news is likely to make some people feel this is more an attempt at ma...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 20, 2012, 12:09 pm
I’m against SOPA, but I’m not sure I can defend Megaupload which seems like the kind of business designed for stealing content. It seems like the action taken here is pretty specific and targeted: No surprise that the anarchists who call themselves Anonymous would try to retaliate for this. Hope...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 19, 2012, 5:04 pm
Pretty good rant: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Jan 19, 2012, 4:23 pm
The bankruptcy itself is old news at this point but I thought the visuals in this story were interesting. Click here to view the embedded video. George Eastman was the Steve Jobs of his day. He came up with the formula for Kodak dry-emulsion film on his own time while working at a bank. Once he’...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2011, 1:44 pm
From the National Journal: Without any Democratic support, House Republicans on Thursday voted to subpoena the Obama administration over all West Wing communications related to the federally-backed, now-bankrupt solar-energy company Solyndra dating back to President Obama’s inauguration in Januar...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2011, 1:11 pm
French feminists protested at the home of Dominique Strauss-Kahn wearing skimpy maid outfits and chanting “shame.” About midway through the performance they do go topless for the cause: The description is in French but Google translator renders it this way: Demonstration of Ukrainian women’s m...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2011, 12:47 pm
The decision to call for a referendum on the new austerity program has led the EU to withhold its $8 billion payment: Click here to view the embedded video. It’s possible Papandreou will be forced out rather than risking the referendum which, if it fails, effectively means the end of the Greek b...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2011, 12:17 pm
Are you happy Mr. President? This doesn’t sound like a very good idea. We know. OWS in a nutshell. Indeed it is.
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2011, 11:26 am
Two nights ago the Occupy Tulsa camp was removed by police enforcing a rule about staying in a park after 11pm. Here’s a video report from KJRH: Click here to view the embedded video. There’s also a You Tube clip shot by the occupiers that night. This one bit caught my attention: It didn’...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 3, 2011, 3:50 am
Update: Three clips that capture the vandalism and mayhem that happened during the day and after dark. In this first clip you get a street level view of what happened at Whole Foods (aerial view below). Some protesters were trying to keep things peaceful, even picking up a chair to ward off the viol...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2011, 11:37 pm
(11/3) More pics here… I guess ATM’s are only used by the 1%… Father of the Year. “Death to Capitalism”, says the banner in the background. This is disturbing. But this is criminal. John Adds: There’s more…
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2011, 6:40 pm
Are we about to see a repeat of Denver? It’s looking that way. Update: Well, not exactly. I’ve replaced the live feed with a recording from earlier. Apparently a small group of protesters chained themselves together in a Chase Bank branch and were arrested. When the police brought them outside ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2011, 5:45 pm
Good overview of what’s happening in Oakland courtesy of KGO-TV: This AP report says thousands protested, but this UPI report says more like one thousand: The San Francisco Chronicle unofficially estimated about 1,000 people were taking part in what was labeled a general strike and noted a lack ...
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John S. posted an article on Verum Serum - Nov 2, 2011, 4:54 pm
This is ARGENT with “Hold Your Head Up” on The Midnight Special from 1973: Click here to view the embedded video. And if it’s bad Don’t let it get you down, you can take it And if it hurts Don’t let them see you cry, you can take it Hold your head up, hold your head up Hold your hea...
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