The Washington National’s pitching phenom, Stephen Strasburg made his big-league debut. The results were jaw-dropping. In the 7 innings he pitched, he struck out 14! He walked 0. He gave up four hits, including a two-run homer, but he took the win, 5-2. The kid
Yesterday featured a primary election throughout the country. Many incumbents, though not all, were voted down by their own party members. The tea-party of conservative populists scored big. The tea-party equivalent on the left seeking to defeat Democratic moderates didn’t do so well: Arkansas incumbent
A disturbing column by Charles Krauthhammer on the global response to Israel’s blockade of Gaza: Oh, but weren’t the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian relief? No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel’s offer to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected
The night before my step-mother-in-law’s funeral, I dreamed that I was at the funeral and ran into an old friend of mine, Gary. We stepped outside and smoked cigars. The next day, which would be last Thursday, we were at the funeral luncheon. I stepped
Many liberals are turning on President Obama’s administration and the Democratic-held congress. From the Associated Press: Progressive activists who helped elect Barack Obama president complained on Monday that the administration and congressional Democrats have been too timid and too willing to compromise. Even though Obama’s
A common notion in studies of Christianity and the arts is “the sacramental imagination.” It goes like this: Christians with a high view of the sacraments believe that spiritual realities are mediated by means of physical things. Christian artists with those beliefs, therefore, can easily
Pass right-to-die legislation, allowing patients to choose physician-assisted-suicide, and what do you get? In Belgium, at least, doctors are killing almost as many patients who do not ask to die as those who do. See Wesley J. Smith, Almost as Many Non Voluntary Euthanasia Deaths
Dennis Mitzner tries to explain the odd alliance between the hard-core left and Islamic jihadists (evident especially in Europe), despite the latter’s attitude towards women, homosexuality, etc., etc. An excerpt: Since the left views Muslims as part of their struggle against Western hegemony, they are
A funeral can be a great help to people who are grieving. A funeral can also make matters worse. A funeral can be built around the strong Word of God, helping people face death, while serving as a catalyst whereby sorrow is resolved into hope.
George Will reviews a book that seems to go to the heart of the difference between conservatism and progressivism: Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians — James Madison, Class
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