Epinions Recent Reviews for lilburne

You've got to hand it to the Doctor

Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:45:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - What is it about the number four? There are four Evangelists. The important Council of Chalcedon was...

Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews: A truly inspiring true tale

Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:14:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - I don’t know any Bulgarians, but I do know that the Bulgarian nation has gotten a raw deal in Wester...

The first Christian emperor

Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:09:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - Back when I was a Protestant, I knew all about Constantine the Great. He was the Roman Emperor who c...

An expose of lying federal propaganda

Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:00:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - John Attarian will probably get savaged for writing this attack on the Social Security system in the...

Yes, Phyllis Schlafly is still around

Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:54:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - If there is any person in the world whose sudden, violent death would be more pleasing to feminists...

We the Deists

Thu, 3 Jul 2003 15:27:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - In Philadelphia, two hundred and twenty-seven years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress,...

Too much information-is it killing us?

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:13:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - The good folks at Ludlow Press (www.LudlowPress.com) have sent me a review copy of a very interestin...

How innocuous is Islam?

Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:36:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - The multiculturalists, especially after the atrocity of September 11, 2001, have been inundating Ame...

Gnostic as they wanna be

Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:42:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - The author of this book, who is a Protestant, believes that modern Protestantism contains certain tendencies towards Gnosticism. What is Gnosticism? Strictly speaking, it is a body of ideas, often predating Christianity, that were held by certain people...

When conservatism was young

Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:28:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - This is William F. Buckley’s latest novel. Buckley seems to be going through a period of reflecting on the past, especially those parts of the past in which he was involved. Perhaps he is having intimations of mortality. What a loss to the country if...

Money plus sex plus kinky bishop equals big trouble

Sun, 18 May 2003 21:36:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - The author, John Van Der Zee, has written several non-fiction books and several novels. But no novel can match the bizarre events recounted in this all-too-true book. Not that there isn’t any fiction in *Agony in the Garden,* but the fiction takes...

Let's insult Bill Clinton some more!

Wed, 7 May 2003 18:12:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - A sample of Joe Sobran’s style, from an article of September 10, 1998 which is reprinted in this book:

“During his contrition swing through Orlando, Bill Clinton told an audience of Democrats that he’d shaken hands with a schoolboy...

This is the story of a woman named Braden

Fri, 2 May 2003 16:42:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - This is a biography of Anne Braden, a longtime left-wing political activist in the South. The author of the book is a professor named Catherine Fosl. Fosl’s last name is an amalgam of her maiden name and that of her husband. “Fosl” is not an...

Another triumph for the Three Stooges

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:32:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - Forget everything you thought you knew about the Three Stooges. This is a heartwarming, moving film about love, friendship, and coming of age. Through heartsearching conversations, the characters in this film come to learn about the world, each other,...

Comprehensive but slanted

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:25:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - Kosovo is a small geographical area which has in recent years been getting a lot of international attention out of proportion to its size. Technically a part of Serbia, Kosovo has, since this book was published, been occupied by NATO troops, who drove...

Be vewy, vewy quiet . . . we're hunting wiberal judges!

Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:57:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - “Courts and the Culture Wars” is named after the title of a symposium held in 2001 at Saint Vincent College, a Roman Catholic institution in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The symposium participants were, for the most part, opposed to the liberal...

You'll like J. P. Hardy's Johnson

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:53:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - I’m pleasantly surprised to find that this gem of a book, which I recently got at a used bookstore, can be purchased over the Internet. The book came out in 1968, so supplies are limited. Order your copy today. Operators are standing by.

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Religions of the world (the abridged version)

Sun, 9 Mar 2003 10:28:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - So a priest and a rabbi get together to do a cable TV program called “The God Squad.” That’s not the set-up to a joke, it’s perfectly true. Monsignor Thomas Hartman is a Catholic priest and Rabbi Marc Gellman used to be president of the...

Can more censorship lead to more free speech? This law professor thinks so

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:33:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - Owen M. Fiss is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His profile at Yale Law School’s Web page shows that he teaches several courses there. (see http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/faculty/omf2/profile.htm). This guy is teaching the...

Bad to the bone

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:15:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - The title of this book is *Bring On the Bad Guys.* Epinions erroneously claims that the title is *Bring Back the Bad Guys.* It’s “bring on,” not “bring back.” The connotations are somewhat different.

*Bring On the Bad...

The Woman Who Cut Off Kenneth Starr's Subpoenas

Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:09:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - Susan McDougal is a central figure in the Whitewater scandal of the Clinton administration. From reading this memoir about her experiences, I developed an admiration for her. This is a woman who seems more or less OK, except for a tendency to attach...

Hard-core, no-holds-barred Roman Catholicism

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:23:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - At a time when the Roman Catholicism is being undermined from within by worldly influences and assaulted from outside by secular forces, it is good to see a book come out to vigorously defend Roman Catholicism. Since the secular media, not to mention...

The end of the Byzantine era

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:12:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - [NOTE: The Catholic-baiting passages in this review no longer reflect my opinions.] The rock group They Might Be Giants once devoted an entire song to the fact that Istanbul, a city on the Bosporous Straits in Turkey, used to be called Constantinople...

What a Christian novel ought to be

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:14:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - There have been times and places in history when, instead of people tearing open Christmas packages, they tore open Christians. There were numerous Christian martyrs during the twentieth century, thanks in large part to the atheistic Communists. A large...

Politicians and racketeers...oops, I repeated myself

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:35:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author lilburne - Melissa Fay Greene, the author, used to work for a legal services agency in Georgia, where she met her husband. This same legal services agency plays a role in the story in this book. Greene lives in Atlanta.

The story, which is supposedly...