October 20, 2009

President Obama and his family still have not picked a church in Washington, D.C.–I’m still holding out hope for our St. Athanasius–but he has been attending services when he is at the presidential retreat Camp David, and the Navy chaplain assigned there sounds like quite

October 19, 2009

Pastor Douthwaite had another killer sermon yesterday. See what he does with the “camel through the eye of the needle” text (Mark 10:23-31). An excerpt (with a reference to a woman who had just been baptized earlier in the service): God did something much more

October 19, 2009

Patrick Welsh, a teacher in our nation capital’s struggling school system came up with a trenchant insight from his own students: “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually

October 19, 2009

We now have official numbers for the federal deficit for the last fiscal year: a record $1.4 trillion. According to the Washington Post, this comes to 10% of the entire economy. This is four times the already large deficit last year. In fact, it’s more

October 19, 2009

If you try to pull off a scam, do not trust your six year old to back you up. He is likely to let slip the truth. See Colorado sheriff says parents concocted tale of boy’s flight in balloon, charges expected.

October 16, 2009

More anti-conservative, Bible-hating conservatism: Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, is sponsoring a Book burning for Halloween. And what they are burning, like the devil’s own children, are Bibles. Here is a copy of the announcement: Come to our Halloween book burning. We

October 16, 2009

Carl Cannon on Rush Limbaugh not being allowed to own a part of the St. Louis Rams: Conservatives suggested this week, not unreasonably, that if one of their own is ever to be awarded a peace prize, an organization other than the Nobel committee is

October 16, 2009

You know that new particle collider that was supposed to isolate the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” which supposedly gives particles their mass? And how some people worried that the experiment might create a black hole that would destroy the earth? Well, the collider

October 15, 2009

T. S. Eliot said it best: I grow old … I grow old …          I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. I will celebrate this day by not provoking any arguments on this blog and by spreading good cheer with the recommendation

October 15, 2009

I have just finished a book that I am going to count among my favorites of all time. It is that good. You have GOT to read it. It’s entitled Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of


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