From AllahPundit an excellent round-up of links and info regarding the Haditha story. This piece in TIME makes particularly interesting reading.

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At First Things, Joseph Bottum has an initial reaction to Pope Benedict’s words at Auschwitz.

On a completely different note, last week Bottum linked to some hilarious faux movie trailers in this post (3/4 of a page down). Scenes from films like The Shining and Jaws reworked by talented pranksters into utterly believable trailers for rather different stories. Amazing what kids can do with their computer machines these days.

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I’m tardy getting to this, but Clive Davis wrote an excellent article for The Times (England’s) on hip-hop a couple of weeks ago. It’s here at his own site — and the reaction it got was kind of interesting too.

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Always a change of pace is Charlie Daniels, who recently paused to clarify things over at his Soapbox, and explain just what he’s about to any newbies who weren’t getting it.

I am pro-Israel, I love Old Glory, NFL, NASCAR and big mouth bass fishing and shooting guns. I like cornbread and pinto beans, fried chicken, rice and gravy, fried okra and hominy grits.

I am a southerner and proud of it and just happen to think that the United States of America is the greatest place on earth and when I leave Tennessee I want to go to Heaven.

I love animals and wide open spaces as much as anybody but can’t see the harm in drilling for oil in Alaska and our western states while I can see the harm in not drilling as the Arab fist tightens around our national cohonos a little more each day. It just doesn’t make sense to depend on people who hate you for our energy needs

I love four-wheel drive vehicles, spinning reels, thunderstorms and rivers. I absolutely adore little babies and happen to think that rednecks are some of the finest people on earth.

Plenty more where that came from, in case you’re not clear on anything.

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Feel the power: On May 20th, RWB referred to some words and writings of one Karl Zinsmeister. A few days later, President Bush named him as his new Domestic Policy advisor.

Readers of this blog should never doubt that that they are part of a small but highly influential cadre of movers and shakers.

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