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Friday, May 27, 2005

Left Lane Hogs

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From time to time the thought has occurred that I am the only person still alive who believes that the left lane of an interstate highway is...

The Embryonic Stem Cell Debate

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The controversy surrounding the use of federal funds to subsidize embryonic stem cell research is culminating in legislation which the presi...

Editorial Judgment

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It's easy to get somewhat discouraged when trying to discuss the controversy surrounding Darwinism and Intelligent Design because it...
Thursday, May 26, 2005

GOP Gets Sucker-Punched, Again.

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The new-found senate comity lasted less than 48 hours before the Democrats voted almost unanimously to prevent John Bolton from receiving ...

The Rainbow Party

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When next you're at a social gathering and someone remarks that they just don't understand why parents would homeschool their chi...

Intelligence Coup in Iraq

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Captain's Quarters links us to a remarkable story in the London Press: BEIRUT: A Syrian intelligence officer detained in Baghdad has ...

The Illusions of Adulthood

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Today's Philosophical Quotation tells us that the 19th century philosopher Auguste Comte once remarked that, "Religion is an illus...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Another Leftist Travels the Damascus Road

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An erstwhile lefty explains why he has chosen to defect in a remarkable essay in the San Francisco Chronicle. Some excerpts: I'm leav...

The New Fusionism

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Joseph Bottum has a piece in the current First Things entitled The New Fusionism in which he dissects the coalition that comprises contempo...

Desecrating the Koran

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If American troops have gratuitously beaten, tortured and murdered enemy soldiers they must be prosecuted. They have tarnished the military,...
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Ongoing OPs

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Bill Roggio writing for Winds of Change updates us on some of the ongoing military operations in Iraq. Here's part of his post: Secu...

Hmmm

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Pat Buchanan notes that if President Bush had nominated John Paul II to a federal judgeship he would have been filibustered by Senate D...

Post-Mortem

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Joe Knippenberg at No Left Turns offers some advice to the Republicans in the wake of the filibuster "compromise". If I were do...

CAFTA

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Froma Harrop of The Providence Journal makes a persuasive case for the Central American Free Trade Agreement. She argues that the jobs whi...
Monday, May 23, 2005

GOP Follies

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What are the pros and cons of the "compromise" on judicial filibusters? The only benefit from a Republican point of view that I ca...

World Population Trends Down

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Richard Neuhaus discusses the latest demographic projections in an essay in the March issue of First Things and they really are quite start...

Real Martyrs

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When it comes to sheer savagery in the name of religion Muslims do not have a total monopoly as this story illustrates: BHUBANESWAR, Indi...

ABC News on the Filibuster

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ABC News did a blurb on the radio the other night about the rules change vote expected to occur in the senate and mentioned that although li...
Sunday, May 22, 2005

Howard Dean

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Howard Dean referred to the filibuster on Meet the Press today as a protection of the rights of the minority. This is a silly claim for seve...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Machiavelli Must be Smiling

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Kausfiles quotes James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal who gives two very good reasons why Democrats might postpone a fight over the fi...