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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Links to Your World, Tuesday December 1

Justin Taylor explains what’s wrong with Focus on the Family’s latest project to evaluate major retailers on their level of “Christmas-friendliness.”


Terry Mattingly wonders when Hollywood will quit getting “blind sided” by the popularity of films like The Blind Side.


“The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins’s latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery he associates with religious baggage. With the slogan ‘Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself’, the youngsters with broad grins seem to be the perfect advertisement for the new atheism being promoted by Professor Dawkins and the British Humanist Association. Except that they are…from one of the country’s most devout Christian families.” From the London Times article about the children featured in new atheist ads. Their father, Brad Mason, said, “It is quite funny, because obviously they were searching for images of children that looked happy and free. They happened to choose children who are Christian.’”


Such a contrast: In “Obama's Brilliant First Year” in Newsweek, Jacob Weisberg wrote, “By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt. On the other hand, in “He Can’t Take Another Bow” in the WSJ, Peggy Noonan says that Obama’s first year has exposed him as “amateurish.”


This is hilarious:

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