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but my time would be more productively spent sorting grains of sand. According to John Hinderaker over at Powerline.com, The New York Times' account of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week "badly misled its readers." After reading the excerpts, I'd have to agree with Hinderaker. The FISA court judges make it pretty clear […]

Nobody like Nazis, especially Illinois Nazis. So, you may ask, what's worse than Nazis? Christians. Last weekend a bunch of Christian youth rallied in San Francisco against popular culture. More than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth landed Friday in San Francisco for a two-day rally at AT&T Park against "the virtue terrorism" of popular culture, and […]

Here are a few things I encourage you to check out as you do your Web-surfing today: John Hinderaker over at Powerline notes there are dueling versions of the testimony given by FISA Court judges with regard to the NSA surveillance program. I'll be curious to find out which one is accurate, because the stories […]

To say I've been disturbed by the recent protests against congressional efforts to tighten security on our southern border and make illegal immigration a felony instead of a misdemeanor would be an understatement. I've seen a plethora of photos from these protests and I'm shocked by the display of "patriotism." I use the scare quotes […]

The Washington Post's media writer, Howard Kurtz, had a Web-only column posted yesterday in which he touched on the disastrous hiring of serial plagiarist Ben Domenech and conservatives in the news business in general. Kurtz's article was prompted by this piece by David Mastio over at RealClearPolitics.com which lays out the apparent step-by-step method for […]

I'm not a big fan on the "wall" that's supposedly in place between church and state in this country because it's most commonly used to try to silence religious people. On a similar note, when Republicans talk about their faith (or even when they're not) the anti-religious left goes ape with sinister conspiracy theories and […]

Blogress The Anchoress notes that the self-image police have apparently struck the hymnal publishing industry. Miss Kelly is distressed to find that some hymnals (including - sigh - the one in my church) features a change in the words to Amazing Grace. “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me…” Has […]

I really don't know what to say about the headline in this story from the Washington Post. Embryonic Stem Cell Success In Mouse Experiment, Cells From Testes Are Transformed By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 25, 2006; A11 Scientists in Germany said yesterday that they had retrieved easily obtained cells from the […]

Early last week the Washington Post unveiled a conservative blog, "Red America," on its site authored by 24-year-old Ben Domenech. Domenech's previous experience consisted of writing for National Review magazine and he was one of the co-founders of the popular blog-community Redstate.org. By Friday, Domenech had resigned after it was discovered that he had committed […]

That humongous monstrosity of an airliner that Airbus is selling had a "safety drill" today. The goal was to evacuate 873 passengers and 20 crew from the plane in just 80 seconds. They were apparently successful -- everyone got out -- but there's that pesky problem of 33 injuries (in what would be a best-case […]