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Commentary News Religion Culture
China Watch
Tort Abuse Nota Bene Hard to Find Stuff
Thomas Sowell's Home Page, includes essays and columns
Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Speech at Harvard. Piercing analysis of where the country was, and is, going.
Ben Stein (an actor / economist / speech writer) is one of those rare sorts who can say a lot with a few words--he should give Tom Clancy writing lessons. His columns often appear in the American Spectator .
Theodore Dalrymple is a physician in the UK who has interesting cultural insights. His writings can sometimes be found in the City Journal, which makes for interesting readinf in its own right. NEW
Peggy Noonan writes for the Wall Street Journal and although some of her columns are unremarkable, when she has a good column it is very, very good. Can be linked to from the Drudge Report (see below).
Christopher Hitchens rates an honorable mention. I disagree with much of what he believes, but he is honest and often has an interesting view. One of the few liberals who can actually discuss something without involving name calling, lapses of logic, deception, and out right lies. His columns are available on the Drudge Report also.
National Review. See the news spun the other direction.
The American Spectator. More of the same, and usually more interesting.
Fox News. A news service that doesn't’t hold the premise that America is always wrong.
Human Events. News magazine of social conservatism.
Reason (more libertarian than conservative, but sometimes interesting)
World Magazine NEW
Faith Freedom, an appeal to those who consider themselves Islamic
Culture,
or what is left of it
The New Criterion. There really is a serious publication out there devoted to higher culture?
The Harvard Classics - The "5 Foot Shelf" of classics - Read them on-line here
TV Turn Off - Lenin was wrong about the opium of the masses.
Bill Gertz - Often has Columns on China
If a foreign power did to this country what some trial lawyers do congress would declare war--unless, of course, the foreign power gave them lots of donations too.
Trial Lawyers Inc. See how they are just in it for the little guy.
Why isn’t there a memorial for the millions who died from communism?
Documents relating to the founding of America
Ever scream at a computer? This site may help.
Find out if your car has a recall or a technical service bulletin
The Secret Life of Machines. Nothing to do with anything at this site, just interesting.
Sources for Hard to Find Stuff
There is no connection or endorsement, financial or otherwise, whatsoever between the Lawndale Times and these companies.
Lehmans. Has “general store” type merchandise, much of it made in the USA
Lee-Valley. Woodworking Hand Tools and Hardware
If Lee-Valley doesn't have it Garrett-Wade does
Lawn Mower Parts, complete with exploded diagrams NEW
Lindsay's. Reprints of old technical books - build your own smelting furnace, etc.
Numrich. Find a firing pin for a 1898 Upper Lower Solvenia Mauser and other odd gun parts
Need store display components, fire place mantles, corbels? Outwater Plastics