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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Bush and the Chronically Homeless

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A New York Times report notes that, due largely to a Bush administration initiative, chronic homelessness in the U.S. has declined by 52,00...

Religious Renaissance

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A generation or so ago it looked as though theistic belief in general and Christian belief in particular were on the ropes. The atheists had...

Terrorism's Most Effective Weapons

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This article at Strategy Page discusses some interesting aspects to the war in Iraq from the standpoint of the military: Throughout the ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Evolution vs. Naturalism

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Alvin Plantinga, professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, has for several decades been pressing the argument that it is literally irrational ...

Whatever You Can Get Away With

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There are lots of possible explanations for Senator Obama's apparent ability to hold every side of a contentious issue. One such possibi...

Sudden Death

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Unconfirmed reports out of Pakistan say that an unmanned drone aircraft fired a missile that killed Abu Khabab in southern Waziristan in Pa...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Po-Mo Crackup

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A couple of Saturdays ago I posted on an old Chuck Colson column in which he critiqued postmodernism. I mentioned that Brian McLaren, a Mar...

Grand Finale

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The last of the Loser Letters is up at National Review Online. All's well that ends well. RLC

Iowa and New Orleans

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In the wake of the Iowa floods Dick Francis passed along a few pertinent questions: Where was the hysterical 24/7 media coverage, com...

Twilight of the War

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The Associated Press has a story on Iraq that all but declares "Mission Accomplished". This is the AP, mind you, so there's n...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Planet of the Apes

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My friend Linda gives us a heads-up on a Weekly Standard column by Wesley Smith in which he foresees very disturbing consequences of Spain...

Bush and the Dark Knight

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Novelist Andrew Klavan compares Batman to Bush in an excellent column at the Wall Street Journal . Klavan writes that: There seems to me...

Tale of Two Judgments

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While Senator Obama was sucking up all the media oxygen in Europe Senator McCain was in Denver dispensing some hard truths about his rival. ...

Summer Symposium

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Kathryn Lopez at National Review Online distributed a number of questions on books, movies and politics to some of the folks at NRO, and th...

Supporting the Troops

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The MSNBC website tells us that: "During his trip as part of the CODEL to Afghanistan and Iraq, Senator Obama visited the combat su...

The Giant Amoeba

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Throughout his tour of the Middle East Barack Obama sounded as though he were a member of the Bush administration when talking about Iraq, ...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Sound Advice

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I'm told by a friend that the letter below appeared in Letters to the Editor in the Richmond Times Dispatch , Richmond , VA on July 7, 2...

Postmodern F-Word

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Comment Magazine's Peter Menzies has a few interesting reflections on Bono, John Lennon, Josh Hamilton, and the inability of journalist...

The Pilgrimmage

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Gerard Baker at the UK Times Online has some fun with those in the media who seem to regard Senator Obama as the savior of the world in th...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Necessary and Sufficient

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One of the tropes to which the media has been treating us of late, and which Senator Obama has himself danced close to endorsing, is that th...