As many of you know, I’m a fan of country music. I’ve even written a now out of print book about it. But lately, I’ve stopped listening to it. What’s on the radio is too painful for me to handle. Maybe I am missing some
As many of you know, I’m a fan of country music. I’ve even written a now out of print book about it. But lately, I’ve stopped listening to it. What’s on the radio is too painful for me to handle. Maybe I am missing some
Speaking of road food, as we did the other day, the very best regional cuisine in my opinion is BBQ. It exists in an exuberant variety of styles and sauces and meats that are distinct to each region of the South. Rich Shipe sent me
A strange ruling from the Supreme Court: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a public university can refuse to officially recognize a Christian student group that bars membership to those who violate its beliefs. In a 5-4 decision split along ideological lines, the high
Now we know how Third World countries feel. We should be grateful, though isn’t it kind of humiliating, a sign of our decline in the world? US accepts international assistance for Gulf spill – Yahoo! Finance.
FBI arrests 10 accused of working as Russian spies. Instead of targeting the government, though, they targeted private institutions, such as think tanks, as a way to get an inside look at American policy. I wonder if there is a mole in the Heritage Foundation
Some human rights and religious freedom activists have noted that President Obama and the State Department are referring to the “freedom of worship” rather than the “freedom of religion.” They worry that this is toning down our country’s traditional stand for human rights. “Freedom of
The Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment gives individuals–not militias–the personal right to keep and bear arms, a right that state and local governments may not abridge: The Second Amendment provides Americans a fundamental right to bear arms that cannot be violated by state
Well, we just got back from another grueling road trip, whereupon I have to get ready for an even more grueling trip abroad next week. (You will note that despite the grueling nature of said road trip, I managed to keep up my blogging pretty
Christopher Benson draws attention to a statement by literary critic Terry Eagleton, a Marxist who has recently started attacking the “new atheists,” who has written a book on the reality of evil: Evil is a form of transcendence, even if from the point of view
Mary Ellen Kelly reports on some remarks of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nee Pope Benedict XVI, on the 1985 World Cup: “The fascination with soccer,” he wrote, “lies essentially in that it forces man to discipline himself, such that, through training, he acquires dominion over himself.
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