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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Fair and Balanced

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In some quarters of the media balanced reporting means that if you discuss some awful behavior perpetrated by one side you must also condemn...

Who'll Save Medicare?

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For those interested in pursuing the details of the Romney/Ryan plan for Medicare I recommend Yuval Levin's analysis in National Review...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Culture Makes a Difference

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My friend Byron passes along an article from The Clapham Institute's blog Peer Review which is worth sharing. I can find no links to t...

Is Mr. Obama Losing the Youth Vote?

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Lots can change between now and November but this seems significant: For the first time since he began running for president, Republican Mi...

What If He Was a Conservative?

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Imagine that Floyd Corkins, the man who walked into the offices of the pro-life, pro-traditional marriage Family Research Council and shot a...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Blind Faith

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When biologists talk about the cell being a microscopic factory filled with tiny molecular machines they mean that quite literally as this b...

Voter ID

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The Pennsylvania voter ID law was upheld yesterday, pending appeals, of course. I can't help but wonder why those on the left have oppo...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

What Is Racism?

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Steve Browne at Taki Magazine shares some thoughts on racism. Specifically, he wonders exactly what it is: It has to be evident to all thin...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Giving Sight to the Blind

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Most of us know someone who's losing his or her sight because of macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, or some other degenerative ...

Ryan's Plan

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The liberal talk shows are in something of a frenzy trying to find some way to convince viewers that if Mitt Romney isn't a satanic incu...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Living Forever

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George Dvorsky has an interesting piece at io9 in which he discusses whether living forever would be all that desirable. He writes: Some fu...

The Ryan Pick

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Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick, Rep. Paul Ryan, has garnered almost universal plaudits from the right and almost universal boos fr...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Killing the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs

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French president Hollande has apparently chosen to follow the thinking of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and raise the top tax rate in his c...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Ten Things

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Gavin McInnes is a libertarian who believes that there are some things liberals get right. He's correct about this, of course, although ...

Welfare State

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This chart, courtesy of The Blaze , will probably ruin your day. It provides a stark illustration of the explosion in dependency on the fede...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Even Some Libs Are Outraged

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How dishonest are the Obama super pacs' campaign ads? They're so bad that even the folks at CNN and MSNBC are disgusted by them. It...

Christian Terrorism

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An academic by the name of Mark Juergensmeyer foists this bit of flapdoodle upon readers at the blog Religion Dispatches : The killing spree...

Class and No Class

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American Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones finished fourth the other night. Jones is a 29 year-old Christian who has publicly acknowledged that she...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Speed Gene

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Former Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson created a bit of a kerfuffle a few weeks ago when he opined that "a ‘superior athletic gene’ i...

Curiosity's Motivation

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You may have been wondering as you watched the amazing story of how NASA scientists landed the exploratory vehicle Curiosity on the surface...