Twenty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan gave one of his most famous speeches. Over at Powerline, they've got a short piece on the backstory behind the famous speech.
Twenty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan gave one of his most famous speeches. Over at Powerline, they've got a short piece on the backstory behind the famous speech.
Every time I read something worth blogging about, I keep it open in a separate Firefox tab until I get around to it. I don't always get around to it in a prompt manner, so here's some interesting reads from the past week or so, so I can close some of these tabs. Sci-Fi author […]
I'm going to call this a "bad move." Sen. Hillary Clinton has announced that one of her national campaign co-chairs is Florida Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings. What's going to be in the first paragraph of Rep. Hastings obituary? In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for […]
You may recall the story of the Washington, D.C., administrative law judge who was suing his cleaners for losing his favorite pair of suit pants. He was suing for $67 million. Well, he's apparently come to his senses. Now he has decided he'll settle for a mere $54 million.
This posted started as a kind of run-on thought to the previous post, so it's probably a good idea to scroll down and read the next post, then come up to this one. I posited in the previous post that animosity towards "Evangelical Christians" in academia was because that term is believed to be synonymous […]
It shouldn't be news to anyone that the typical college campus doesn't really reflect the outside world -- there's a reason it's described as the ivory tower. However, what is news is this survey [PDF format] on college faculty members and their feelings toward religion. MAJOR FINDINGS Most Faculty Believe in God, but Atheism Is […]
Over at National Review's "The Corner," Ramesh Ponnuru points out a recent CBS/New York Times poll that's been quoted noting that 75 percent of the public favors legal abortion. Do not confuse that with 75 percent of the public approving the status quo. The source for the Times claim, and the apparent source for Slate […]
Paris Hilton is going back to the slammer. Yawn. It was wall-to-wall Paris earlier today as I got ready for work on both Fox News and MSNBC. CNN was better, cutting into the Parismania for occasional coverage of President Bush in Europe and the aftermath of the failed Senate effort at passing comprehensive immigration reform. […]
Republican Sen. Trent Lott went on a whine today over the immigration bill being debated in the Senate. Lott apparently was exasperated by the fact that his GOP colleagues wouldn't go along to get along so John McCain could have a legislative victory to tout as he campaigned across the country -- not realizing that […]
Sen. John Edwards plays the Civics 101 game "Right or Privilege" College education: "Right" Health Care: "Right" Livable wage: "Right" Owning a handgun: "Privilege" If elected, John Edwards promises to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States ... if he can find a copy of it. For the record: Is John Edwards' most […]