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Just on the principle of the thing, I wish I had a paintball gun. So here it is, nearly 3 a.m. and I'm watching "Firefly" on one screen and working on Adobe InDesign templates on the other when I hear a sound outside my window that sounds like water, but not the spray sprinklers. There's […]

NARAL is a bunch of blatant liars.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd takes up the plight of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq last year. If you've been napping for the past few days, let me bring you up to speed. Ms. Sheehan (whom I truly feel sorry for, both because she has […]

Several years ago I was watching a debate on C-SPAN between Alan Keyes and Alan Dershowitz over the role of religion in public life. A major point of contention was what it meant to be able to "practice" your religion. Dershowitz's preferred definition appeared to allow you to do whatever your religion required as a […]

Sunday's "Meet the Press" featured a conversation between law professor Douglas Kmiec and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat. The subject was Catholics and the Supreme Court and whether a devout Catholic can actually be allowed to serve on the Court. If you didn't see the show, then you should definitely read the […]

National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru points to this Q&A in the New York Times Magazine with Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Q: Do you think Americans are lazy? A: Without a doubt. We're the victims of our own successes and prosperity, which have caused us to change our lifestyles from being people who had to hunt for […]

The New York Times has an editorial today complaining about the jailing of their reporter, Judith Miller, for refusing to reveal her source in the nadagate investigation. In the days after Ms. Miller's arrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that three countries harassed or jailed journalists while pressuring them to reveal their sources. Which […]

RIP.

I've got the coverage of the space shuttle Discovery's return on the TV and the whole thing strikes me as odd. (Their first landing window is officially a no-go -- they'll orbit the Earth again.) The first space shuttle took flight in 1981, when I was 9-years-old. I don't think we even had our first […]

This is old news, you might have seen it before, but amid the homebuying frenzy Muslims in America are sometimes left out. Why? Because Islam forbids paying interest. Of course, that's nothing American ingenuity can't solve, so banks have come up with "Islamic mortgages." This allows Muslims to buy homes without paying interest. What it […]