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Saturday, October 8, 2005

Denying the Obvious

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I had occasion the other night to spend the evening with a very bright group of people (my presence in the group was something of an anomaly...

The Religion Test

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E.J. Dionne writing at Tech Central Station , detects a whiff of hypocrisy among those conservatives who thought it outrageous that senate l...

Smelly Little Orthodoxies

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Academic freedom at the University of Idaho is in serious peril . The totalitarian thought police have ascended all the way to the office of...
Friday, October 7, 2005

Real Reform

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A former teacher named Aaron Belz lays out his vision for improving schools in the U.S. Having taught in a pretty good public high school m...

Hide the Salami?!

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Howard Dean is always good for laughs at his own expense. The other night on Chris Matthews' Hardball Dean, in talking about whether th...
Thursday, October 6, 2005

From The "R Man", Richard Russell

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Here's Richard Russell's latest take on the state of things. Must reading in my opinion. What I believe is happening is that inve...

Winning Without Fighting

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Bush once again has the Democrats discombobulated. They are almost forced to support his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court de...

Chaos and Anarchy

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The LA Times tells us that media reports of chaos and anarchy in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina were highly exaggerated and largely ...

Consciousness and Materialism

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Philosopher David Chalmers notes that there has been a shift among philosophers of mind in the last decade from a strict materialistic redu...
Wednesday, October 5, 2005

It's the RINOs' Fault

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No Left Turns' Julie Ponzi makes the point that if conservatives are unhappy with Bush's pick for the Supreme Court they shouldn...

Uh, Oh. Not a <i>Christian</i>!

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From the New York Times comes this shocking revelation about Harriet Miers: "I think the one thing that comes across is she genuinel...

Assisted Suicide

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The first case the Supreme Court is hearing this session is whether Oregon's assisted suicide law should be allowed to stand. The Bush ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Testing ID

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There's an interesting article in the New York Times on the great clash between the magisteria of religion and science at the first Te...

The American Soldier

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Yesterday we posted an account of the toughness and courage of American soldiers and Marines. Today we direct you to this story which illus...

The Peculiar Story of Judith Miller

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The Judith Miller story is more than a little odd (See here for a complete account of the affair). Miller, you will recall went to prison r...
Monday, October 3, 2005

Tough Breed

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Here's a brief story about the kind of men who are fighting against Islamic extremists in Iraq so that our families are safer from them...

Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

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Conservatives are split on George Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers for a seat on the Supreme Court. The American Center for Law and Ju...
Sunday, October 2, 2005

The Next Pick

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ConfirmThem.com thinks the next SCOTUS nominee will be either Michael Luttig or Karen Williams . Here's an article on Williams. We...

Operation Iron Fist

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The Fourth Rail describes in a series of posts what's going on along the Syrian border with Operation Iron Fist. Go here then scroll do...

Is There <i>Anything</i> They Won't Say?

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A friend writes to express dismay with the testimony at the Dover ID trial in Harrisburg, PA: Has reading the paper about the ID trial dr...