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Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Evading the Questions

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Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons , is on the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News. The paper's editors recently had a meeting wi...

Distrusting the Times

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Why don't people trust the mainstream media to present the news objectively? Well, here's an example of the sort of thing that seem...
Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Saturn

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This photo of Saturn was taken with the sun directly behind the planet. What astonishing beauty. RLC

Ten Myths About Atheism

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I know it seems as though I write far too much about Messrs. Harris, Dawkins, et al. but they are influential people whose arguments should ...

The State of Jihad

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Bill Roggio gives us a year end round up of the status of the global war against Islamo-fascism at The Fourth Rail . There's lots of goo...
Monday, January 1, 2007

Chavez Taking Over

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Hugo Chavez is shutting down a television station in Venezuela which air material he deems a threat to his power: In an address to troop...

Trusting State

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Why do some people have the feeling that our own Department of State can't be trusted? Well, perhaps one reason is that the State Depar...

Twenty Favorites For 2006

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Herewith my list (by topic) of the twenty books I read (or reread) in 2006 which I enjoyed the most. I'd be interested in hearing from r...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Dissenting From the Vatican

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I have a great deal of respect for the Catholic church and for the ethical thinking it produces, but these statements from the Vatican on t...

Is ID Testable?

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Intelligent Design is often criticized for being untestable. There is no experiment, the argument goes, that we can imagine that might give ...

The Kalam Cosmological Argument

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Joe Carter offers a good discussion of what is called the Kalam Cosmological argument for the existence of God promoted most notably by phi...
Friday, December 29, 2006

The End

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News outlets are reporting that Saddam has been executed . I watched Alan Colmes and others argue tonight that executing him was unnecessary...

Tonight's the Night

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Evidently Saddam will sometime tonight be sent to stand before God to give an account for the horrors he inflicted on so many hundreds of t...

George Weigel's Best Five

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Catholic writer George Weigel lists for the Wall Street Journal what he considers to be the five best books for understanding Christian...

The War Against the West

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A reader points out that we must be careful when we condemn the Muslim perpetrators of atrocities not to give the impression that we are con...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Ethiopia and Somalia

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Below much of the American media's radar Ethiopia has joined non-Muslim Somali forces to defeat the Islamic Courts which had taken over ...

An Atheist's Pilgrimage (Pt. II)

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On Tuesday we alluded to the account by Gary Wolf of Wired who shares with us his quest to find kinship among the "New Atheists....

Genuine Faith

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I suppose this is a good thing, but I just can't help wondering how genuine one's faith is if you have to hire people to advise you...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)

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Gary Varvel

Heading into the Past

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Byron passes along an article by James Howard Kunstler, writing for Orion Magazine , who argues that because so much of our present culture...