Pages

▼
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Presidential Paralysis

›
Bill writes to inform us of a development in Arizona that's truly dispiriting. An 80 mile swath of parkland along the border has been c...

Nature's Beauties

›
These ten Black-bellied whistling ducks were photographed recently by Kevin Ripka at Riverlands park in Luzerne Co. Pennsylvania. The birds ...

Miracles Natural and Divine

›
One of the biggest problems with any naturalistic explanation of life is trying to account for how it got started. The problem of the origi...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

When the World No Longer Believes

›
Jewish columnist Dennis Prager takes us on a quick tour of the post-Christian world and shows that as the influence of Christianity wanes h...

Strange Bedfellows

›
The United States has evidently failed to dissuade Iran from building nuclear weapons, a failure that was predictable once Iran perceived th...

Frauds and Fakers

›
Yesterday I wrote about the pending deportation of Mosab Yousef, author of Son of Hamas , and suggested that unless the Department of Homela...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Testy, Testy

›
Well, another Democrat congressman has made it big on YouTube. Robert Ethridge from North Carolina's 2nd District is greeted on a Washin...

Maher on the Media

›
This is twice in the last couple of months that I think Bill Maher has it right. In the video below, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC expresses skepti...

Shame

›
Timothy Morgan at Christianity Today informs us of what appears on the surface, at least, to be a shameful decision by Janet Napolitano...

Degeneracy

›
Sometimes we need to be reminded of the kind of people these are who seek to impose their will and their religion on the rest of the world. ...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Last Generation

›
Philosopher Peter Singer seems to delight in making himself controversial if not blatantly outrageous. In a recent post at Opinionator.com ...

Re: Underwater Dive

›
A former student named Andrew writes to fill us in on some interesting details related to our post featuring Guillaume Nery (See: Underwater...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Getting Hit From All Sides

›
In a fine piece of commentary, Dorothy Rabinowitz of the WSJ puts her finger on the source of growing disenchantment with our president. In...

Underwater Dive

›
The Huffpo has a video of world champion freediver Guillaume Nery diving underwater into Dean's Blue Hole. Dean's Blue Hole is t...

The More We Learn the Less We Know

›
A piece at Evolution News and Views reminds us that for every question science answers it raises a dozen more. Just as we approach what we...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Who Christians Are

›
I've a friend who recently did something I think is truly amazing. When I tell him that, though, he just shrugs his shoulders and tells ...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Obama Might Vote Republican in November

›
Fred Barnes speculates in the WSJ that Mr. Obama's best hope for political survival in 2012 is that the GOP wins back Congress in Novem...

Preservatives

›
A former colleague of mine, a high school chemistry teacher, sent me an email saying that she was grading final exams and one question was t...

Hypocrisy and Decadence

›
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson offers a much needed admonition in an essay on how we tend to treat politicians caught up in sexu...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

The Audacity of Blame

›
Allahpundit wonders how anyone who has done nothing but blame his predecessor for every difficulty he's faced since being elected can u...