CR Blog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
A timely release from Steidl brings together John Duncan ’s photographs of bonfires built by Protestant communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland to be lit the evening before the annual July 12 celebrations. Each is depicted as an unlit, imposing structure piled together from wooden pallets and tyres. While post-ceasefire political progress has been lauded in the past decade, these images reveal the...
Al Nye The Lawyer Guy (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
In a decision that was not all that unexpected, the Maine Supreme Court has disbarred former attorney John Duncan for life for having stolen nearly $300,000 from clients and his own law firm. The Portland Press Herald reports that he is the first Maine lawyer to ever be disbarred for life. I’ve written previously about Duncan’s conduct here. The opinion...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Geneva - The world's five main atomic powers issued a joint statement Friday - the first in five years - warning Iran's nuclear programme is a proliferation risk of ongoing serious concern. British Ambassador John Duncan, speaking on behalf of the f...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Two big stories that got mostly cut out of the coverage last night: The victory of Rep. Walter Jones in North Carolina and the narrow victory of Rep. Dan Burton in Indiana, both Republicans. Jones, who joins John Duncan and Ron Paul as one of the only anti-war, anti-surge Republicans in Congress, dispatched pro-war former Army officher Joe McLaughlin by 19 points, carrying 14 of 17 counties. Harbor...
Bad Astronomy Blog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
I pointed out recently about the anti-intellectual gasbag that is Tennessee Republican John Duncan, saying that using experts to help make policy decision is "elitist", like that's a bad thing. But now Hillary Clinton has jumped on this make-us-all-dumber bandwagon. Sean basically nails it. Mrs. Clinton's campaign has been going increasingly off-the-rails lately, between her lying, her [...]
Up For Poker Blog (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
"It seems rather elitist to me for people who maybe have degrees in this field to feel that, because they've studied it, somehow they know better than the parents what is best for [their children]." Rep. John Duncan (R) Tennessee Not to totally steal someone else's blogging style ( Sorry Iggy )but sometimes politics, silly quotes, and poker go together like peanut butter, chocolate and, um, ketchup....
About Sexuality (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
According to a Reuters report, after Republican Tennessee Rep. John Duncan reviewed testimony from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, the U.S. Institute of Medicine, the...
Pharyngula (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
…Republican Representative John Duncan of Tennessee. Confronted with a vast amount of evidence provided by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, the US Institute of Medicine , the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Psychological Association that abstinence-only education does not work, does not reduce the incidence of either...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
FA Cup semi-finalist John Duncan on whether Bristol Rovers can repeat his success
The Real Estate Zebra (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
No sooner had I been alerted to the fact that I was mentioned in the REALTOR Magazine feature article, “Welcome to Real Estate 2.0,” than I received an email from an agent who had seen the article. The email came from John Duncan, a Keller Williams agent in Houston, TX (Clear Lake, to be [...]
Changing Places (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
A celebration of the goddess Brigid….. The Wheel of the Celtic Year: Imbolc THE EXALTED ONE …woman of wisdom…a goddess whom poets adored…— Cormac's Glossary It is tempting to view this tender goddess of the early Spring only as she is pictured in Scottish artist John Duncan's famous picture, The Coming of Bride: a wide-eyed, golden-haired girl, encircled by [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
Forty years ago Sir Owen Woodhouse outlined the most revolutionary and innovative system for accident compensation in the world. The outcome was New Zealand's universal no-fault accident compensation scheme, known widely as ACC,...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2007
BANK of Scotland has promoted John Duncan from within the company to head up its integrated finance division in Scotland.
I'm Simon Dickson. (Free subscription) | 10/14/2007
With the Foreign Office’s recent embracing of the blog, I’m reminded that a couple of Ambassadors in the field have been blogging for Britain for a long, long time. Alan Goulty, our man in Tunis has been writing a ‘blog’ for close to two years; and John Duncan, head of the UK’s Permanent Representation to [...]
Blue Collar Republican (Free subscription) | 09/23/2007
TN Congressmen David Davis, Lincoln Davis, Zach Wamp, and John Duncan have signed on as co-sposors of H.Con.Res. 40 - Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and [...]
