I've never attended a church where the pastor got up on the pulpit and started going off on a political rant. If it ever happened, I'd be one of the first people to get to my feet and walk out, never to return. The closest I've ever seen is a pastor simply encouraging people to […]
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.
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 […]
Senate rules allow senators to hitch rides on cushy private airplanes if they reimburse their benefactor at the rate for a corresponding first-class ticket. Of course, if you or I were to try to hire a private jet by using the same rationale -- and wad of cash -- we'd get the jet door slammed […]
Today's Wall Street Journal features an editorial on last week's belated funding for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. I want to pick out two paragraphs to share. First, on the Democrats: Hamilton and Madison knew what they were doing when they gave the bulk of the war powers to the President, and it's hard […]
Filmmaker Michael Moore challenged actor/maybe-soon-presidential-candidate Fred Thompson to a debate on health care policy. Survey after survey has indicated that health care is one of the top issues to the American voters. Today, more than 46 million people lack health are coverage, including 9 million children. We pay significantly more than any other country in […]
CBS News' Mike Wallace interviewed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for this Sunday's "60 Minutes" episode. The interview apparently included this question: Romney's wife, Ann, who converted to the Mormon Church before they were married, is also interviewed. When asked whether they broke the strict church rule against premarital sex, Romney says, "No, I'm sorry, […]
Reading three separate articles on the government response to the tragic tornado that hit Greensburg, Kan., last week it's hard to tell exactly where the truth is. First, The New York Times promotes the standard Democrat take on the story: that the Kansas National Guard, overtaxed by deployments to Iraq, can't handle natural disasters at […]
Correction appended. Today is the communists' favorite holiday, so it should come as no surprise that pinkos make their way out of the woodwork today. For the second year in a row, supporters of open-borders are rallying across the United States. It would seem like these rallies would be a target-rich environment for Immigration and […]
Boston Globle columnist Ellen Goodman has a new column out today taking to task "incivil" people. The news hook is the now-twice fired Don Imus, but Goodman also reels in the vicious threats and attacks on tech writer/blogress Kathy Sierra (rightly) for condemnation. Unsurprisingly, Goodman uttered nary a peep when fellow columnist Michelle Malkin started […]