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Eric’s Fist Full of Lemon Bars

Posted by Eric (December 24, 2009 at 1:50 pm)

Today I’m making lemon bars, and they shall be very lemony indeed.

Lemon bars recipe researchI am what you might call a recipe “aggregator”—when I decide to try a new recipe, I look at a half dozen or more recipes online at favorite sites like All Recipes and the Food Network, and then mix them together on the general principle of putting in the largest amount of each ingredient given across all the recipes—especially the ingredients that are butter.

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Has Doug Kmiec Truly Lost His Mind?

Posted by Eric (May 28, 2009 at 4:15 pm)

Doug KmiecListening to some of the meandering nonsense coming from Doug Kmiec during his recent debate with Hadley Arkes at Villanova University (Part 1) (Part 2), I began to wonder if he’d lost his mind.

For example, he asked us to believe that what Barack Obama meant when he said he wouldn’t want his daughters “punished with a baby” if they made a mistake was that he wouldn’t want to see them deprived of all the joy that comes from learning that you’re going to become a parent when the time is right. “Punished with a baby” seems like a strange way to put it, but that’s what Obama told Kmiec, and Kmiec bought it.

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Most Dangerous Vice President Ever?

Posted by Eric (October 2, 2008 at 9:44 pm)

Joe BidenJoe Biden just declared, in his Vice Presidential debate with Sarah Palin, that Dick Cheney “has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history.”

Slow Joe has apparently forgotten about Aaron Burr, Vice President under Thomas Jefferson in his first term, 1801-1805.

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Democrats Responsible for the Economic Crisis?

Posted by Eric (September 26, 2008 at 5:28 pm)

You’ve got to see this video (via Druge):

YouTuber “TheMouthPeace” links the current economic crisis to the Community Redevelopment Act passed under Carter and expanded in 1995 by Clinton, which required banks to increase their sub-prime lending. [Continue reading this entry »]

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Why liberal Catholics should vote for McCain

Posted by Eric (September 25, 2008 at 11:16 am)

Pope John Paul IILately some Catholic commentators have been arguing that Catholics either can or should vote for Barack Obama, arguing that he espouses more positions that adhere to Catholic teaching than does John McCain.

That’s debatable to say the least, as is whether Obama can actually deliver on the particular campaign promises attractive to some, mostly liberal, Catholics. But aside from those arguments, there is entirely different calculus by which liberal Catholics would do best to vote for John McCain in 2008.

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