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So, it looks like Iran is continuing its stellar human-rights record by planning on executing a Christian for apostasy. As early as this week, the British-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports, Iran may execute Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani for refusing to recant his Christian faith. As my colleague Paul Marshall recently wrote, evangelical Pastor Nadarkhani was sentenced […]

I made a mistake last night before I went to bed—I checked my twitter feed. What did I see, a tweet by actor Adam Baldwin (You might know him as Jayne from “Firefly”)  a rare “out” conservative in Hollywood. Had re-tweeted some comments by Sonoma State University Professor Cynthia Boaz. (Thank you Andrew Breitbart for […]

I’m not exactly one of those granola-eating, whole food type consumers. I like good-tasting food and if you had to slather the thing in Crisco, bacon and transfats to make it taste good, then that’s all right by me. It’s a free country. At least I thought it was until I came across this classic […]

Science: [James] Gillies [spokesman for CERN] told The Associated Press that the readings [suggesting neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light] have so astounded researchers that "they are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they've done and really scrutinize it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the […]

I can’t count the number of times I’ve said that the Palestinians really don’t want peace with Israel, but via Anne Bayefsky over at the Weekly Standard comes this: 1967 borders with mutually agreed swaps?

First, Netflix/Quikster. I wasn't as miffed as many others were when they decided to split streaming off from the DVD/Streaming combo and charge separately. Yes, the price went up, but not so much (for me) that I still didn't think it was worth the benefits I am receiving. Then they got stupid. It turns out […]

We're about 2/3 of the way through President Obama's first term and who's to blame for this mess? According to former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, it's George W. Bush's fault. The decline in Obama’s political fortunes, the Great Disappointment, can be attributed to four main factors: the intractable legacy bequeathed by George […]

President Obama has come out with a plan to rescue the economy from the terrible possibility of a double-dip recession and get our fiscal house back in order by raising taxes by $1.5 trillion on "the wealthy." To be fair, the president has also proposed $1 trillion in savings by winding down the wars in […]

The title of this post is a quote from Mythbusters’ Adam Savage whose reality frequently isn’t quite to his liking as machines he constructs fail spectacularly in a ball of flame. It’s also indicative of the mindset of some parts of the “reality-based” media. When last we came across Providence Journal columnist and head of […]

Yesterday, while everyone with anything better to do was watching the Monday Night Football doubleheader and not reading political blogs, the Obama administration sent out OMB Director Jack Lew to explain how Obama plans on paying for Stimulus II: Same ol’ $#!+. (via Andrew Stiles at NRO) $400 billion by limiting itemized deductions, including the […]