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A recent poll shows that a large proportion of high school students want government control of the press:

Apparently the First Amendment ought to be made required reading in U.S. high schools. A new survey of 112,003 students released today finds that one in three say the press ought to be more restricted — and 36% think newspapers should get “government approval” before stories are published.

This is troubling, but not quite surprising. This is an age when so many kids take a government bus to a government school, where they receive their federally-subsidized breakfast, lunch, condoms, and faulty “education.”

With so much of their lives run by the government, is it any wonder they immediately look to government to rule the marketplace of ideas, too?

Matt Bramanti | January 31, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Posted to National, Politics, Stupidity

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The Mattsapundit Cryptology Deparment, hidden in a bunker deep beneath the Astrodome, has been working day and night for months. Million-dollar supercomputers and Caltech math whizzes have been cracking algorithms, and we’ve finally done it.

We’ve deciphered Kim Jong Il’s instant message conversations, including banter with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Saddam Hussein, and more!

Here’s a peek, back when Kim thought Sen. Kerry won the presidency:

License2KimJongill:	Congratulations!
License2KimJongill:	I knew you would win!
License2KimJongill:	535 electoral votes, wow
JFKpart2:	Yes, it was quite a victory
License2KimJongill:	So how many electoral votes did Bush get?
JFKpart2:	About…three
License2KimJongill:	Wow
License2KimJongill:	That’s only three more than I got, and I didn’t even run
License2KimJongill:	That means I, Kim Jong Il, almost tied President Bush in the American election! My subjects will be most pleased.

[Hat-tip: Mary]

Matt Bramanti | January 31, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Posted to International, Humor, Politics

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Howard Dean’s shellacking in the primaries really screwed him up:

“I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization,” the failed presidential hopeful told the crowd at the Roosevelt Hotel, where he and six other candidates spoke at the final DNC forum before the Feb. 12 vote for chairman.

Shoot, at least he’s honest. Wait, no he’s not:

We can talk about our faith, but we cannot change our faith,” he said, echoing themes he sounded in his presidential bid. “We need to be people of conviction.”

This conviction comes from a man who changed religions because his church wouldn’t let the city build a bike path on their property.

Matt Bramanti | January 31, 2005 at 1:56 pm
Posted to National, Politics, Moonbats

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Quick, somebody get this woman some socialized medical care:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton collapsed Monday during a speech on Social Security, a radio station reported.Colleen DiPirro, president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, told WBEN-AM radio that Clinton told the crowd she was feeling weak and had had a stomach virus. Clinton started to speak then collapsed, DiPirro told the radio station.

Clinton, 57, was treated by an emergency crew at the scene and declined to be taken to a hospital, the radio station said.

It could not immediately be confirmed if the collapse was due to a bolt from a righteous God.

Matt Bramanti | January 31, 2005 at 1:56 pm
Posted to National, Politics

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As we reported over a week ago, the CBS executives asked to resign are still in the employ of that news organization, and they’re considering suing CBS.

And the response from the Black Eye Network?

A spokesman said, “CBS refuses to comment on speculation.”

LST reader Bill Foss put it best:

I guess CBS only refuses to comment on speculation unless they can run it as a news story slamming the president during an election campaign.

Heh.

Matt Bramanti | January 31, 2005 at 4:07 am
Posted to Media, National, Politics

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During the Cold War, millions of American Catholics prayed for the conversion of Russia. Now, Christians are turning their attention to another Godless, communist nation:

Word has spread like wildfire of the Christian underground that helps fugitives to reach South Korea. People who lived in silent fear now dare to speak about escape. The regime has almost given up trying to stop them going, although it can savagely punish those caught and sent back.“Everybody knows there is a way out,” said a woman, who for obvious reasons cannot be identified but who spoke in front of several witnesses.

The regime is fighting to save itself from subversion. Its agents kidnapped Kim Dong-shik, a South Korean missionary, from the turbulent Chinese border town of Yanji in 2000. Last week the South Koreans demanded a new investigation: the clergyman has never been seen again.The secret police cannot staunch the word of the gospel. Two of our party turned out to be Christian businessmen who had come from China carrying wads of cash. Korean-language Bibles have been smuggled in by the hundreds.

Recently, we’ve seen an attempt on Kim Jong Il’s life, power struggles within the North Korean regime, and more publicity about the dictator’s personal excesses even as his people starve to death.

One day, the residents of that impoverished “workers’ paradise” will be free to worship. Let us pray that day comes soon.

Matt Bramanti | January 31, 2005 at 3:39 am
Posted to International, Religion

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