Second Links — 8.4.10

Allowed to show some English movies, the Poles made up their own posters , substituting art for the girls and guns favored by the English studios.

Deciding to do something “mischievous in its conception,” two Hollywood biggies have compiled a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America .

According to recent studies, prayer reduces drinking and reality shows increase crime. Also, middle schools may be a bad idea.

And according to a Church historian, in early America “a people who loathed market principles birth[ed] a modern market economy.” In other words, the Puritans became capitalists .

While according to two scholars at the American Enterprise Institute, science “has taken on an authoritarian tone , and has let itself be co-opted by pressure groups who want the government to force people to change their behavior.”

And, finally, William Saunders of Americans United for Life responds to the claim by the executive director of Catholics United that the new health plan doesn’t cover abortions, by showing that it does.