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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Mashed-Up Bag of Meat?!

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Keith Olbermann of MSNBC is an avatar of much that's wrong with our political discourse today. His tirades against anyone with whom he d...

Do the Right Thing

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Ralph Peters at the New York Post has been a reliable commentator throughout the last decade on teh wars in the middle east so when he offe...

Decline Is Not Inevitable

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Charles Krauthammer has composed an excellent snapshot of America in 2009. He argues that despite the doom and gloom prognostications of th...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Re: Dissed

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Caleb writes to opine that: Although President Obama did not win the Nobel Prize for economics, when he makes good on his campaign claim ...

Great Divorce

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I just learned that one of my favorite C.S. Lewis books has been made into a movie to be released next month. The book is The Great Divorce...

Hamlet in the White House

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Charles Krauthammer at the Washington Post asks the key questions concerning President Obama's leisurely response to General McChrystal...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Dissed

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The Nobel committee responsible for awarding the prize in economics has dissed President Obama and awarded the prize to two economists inst...

Moral Subjectivism (Pt. II)

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Friday I wrote about an exchange at Uncommon Descent between Barry Arrington, a lawyer, and a commenter who calls himself camanintx. In re...

In Search of the Conservative Intellectual

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Steven Hayward at the Washington Post wonders about the intellectual vigor of today's conservatism. Along the way he makes some observa...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Gary Cooper vs. Michael Jackson

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People who study such things claim that over the last three or four decades women's preference in men has evolved. Whereas a couple of g...

Afrocity

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It's difficult for a liberal to convert to conservatism. The difficulty doesn't lie so much in the ideological transformation, rathe...
Friday, October 9, 2009

More on the Nobel Fatuousness

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If any more evidence that the Nobel Peace Prize committee is motivated by purely political considerations this piece from the WSJ provides ...

Embarrassing the President

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As you have probably heard by now President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ........ well, I don't exactly know what fo...

Moral Subjectivism (Pt. I)

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It's one of the most perplexing and disturbing aspects of our age that so many people have adopted a relativistic or subjectivistic view...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Promise Them Anything

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President Obama is rapidly proving himself to be a serial promise-breaker. What he says often seems to be at variance with what his administ...

Sensus Divinitatis

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Bradlaugh at Secular Right discusses an article that reports some very inconclusive evidence that somehow belief in God is linked to the...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Indecision

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According to the New York Times President and Mrs. Obama actually have this painting hanging in the White House: The painting is all ab...

Uh Oh

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ABC News reports that the U.S, is spending a lot of money on a weapons delivery system that would be useful only in places like Iran and No...

Two More Quotes

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The other day we featured some quotes from several famous and accomplished historical figures. Here are two more sent me by a reader from t...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

World Famous

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This will probably be of no interest to anyone but me, but my brother Bill informs me that, in the course of scanning through the arcana of ...