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toll roads are a-opening
Yesterday, the first toll roads in the Austin area opened to traffic. Loop 1 now extends north to the new State Highway 45 which currently stretches between RM 620 and the new State 130. 130 is open from US 79 in Round Rock down to US 290. I was already scheduled to be in Round…
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to mike who commented about fr. drinan, sj
My last post dealt with the Jesuit Georgetown University naming an endowed chair after a priest who has been a supporter of abortion. Mike left me a comment saying that I’ve been biased by anti-Drinan sources. I attempted to e-mail him on the address he left in the comment, but my e-mail was returned as…
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georgetown university is not catholic
Jesuit university endows human rights chair in name of pro-abortion priest I do not believe that every Catholic university needs to follow the Ave Maria approach (that is, removing anything opposed or not fully inline with Catholic thought from anywhere near campus), but there is a duty to a Catholic university to be Catholic. At…
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gaping hole is best for security
The bill authorizing the “celebrated” 700-mile fence along the 2,000-mile Mexico border has been signed into Federal law. I’m glad that we feel a fence is a best way to take care of this problem and I’m glad that we feel like blocking 35% of the border is the right way to build a fence.…
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what would you think?
A short while ago, I found this e-mail in my inbox: From: Richard Ribb Mailed-By: lists.cc.utexas.edu To: la-students-s1@lists.cc.utexas.edu Date: Oct 3, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: graduation information Dear Liberal Arts Seniors: Congratulations on approaching the completion of your coursework at UT Austin. If you are planning to graduate this December, you must apply to…
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pictures of the DC trip online
I’ve posted pictures of the trip on my gallery page [since removed]. I haven’t had the chance to go through all of them, so once the captions ended, I just uploaded everything. The good, the bad and the ugly. So, please ignore the bad photographs. I’ll go through when I have some spare time [insert…