Now Ukraine wants to be part of U.S. missile defense system. Adding insult to injury, the nation is offering the West a satellite monitoring base that was built on Ukrainian soil by the Soviets.
Now Ukraine wants to be part of U.S. missile defense system. Adding insult to injury, the nation is offering the West a satellite monitoring base that was built on Ukrainian soil by the Soviets.
Keith Pavlischek at the First Things blog notes that the affinities between Islam and Fascism have been noted a long time ago. Borrowing from some other writers, he offers a quotation from a prominent theological anti-fascist: Karl Barth, the great Swiss theologian who was the
An update to the post below about Poland accepting the US anti-missile defense installation in the face of Russian opposition. Now Russia is threatening to nuke Poland and its allies, which would be us. From the AP story Russia: Poland risks attack because of US
Scholar and writer Mary Grabar documents just how bad it has gotten in literary studies, with its jargon-ridden, meaning-denying, politically-correct scholarship that tears down authors instead of helping us understand them. Dr. Grabar zeroes in on how our establishment universities are giving the heroic Alexander
In an interview with the Weekly Standard, McCain Won’t Rule Out Pro-choice Running Mate: IN A WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW aboard his campaign plane this morning, John McCain said that he is open to choosing a pro-choice running mate and named former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge as
Yes, I know baseball is being eased out as an Olympic sport, though not understanding why. (Surely its popularity in the entire Western hemisphere, plus Japan, makes it more popular than Olympic sports such as synchronized swimming.) But it is wrong to vandalize the game
Russia may have thought its invasion of Georgia intimidated its other neighbors, but instead it may have just scared them into action. Before, Poland was reluctant to allow the USA to base anti-missile missiles on its soil, such was the intensity of Russian anger. But
Terry Mattingly at Get Religion discusses Democratic efforts to woo Catholics and Evangelicals by making some seemingly pro-life gestures in the new party platform. From Wooing the liberal pro-life vote, again: The 2004 platform stated: Because we believe in the privacy and equality of women,
So the USA has put restrictions on importing donated sperm from Europe, due to concerns about Mad Cow disease. This has many American women in an uproar because of their desire for Scandinavian sperm donors. This sympathetic report comments that “the Nordic donors were popular
So, controversy builds over whether those little Chinese girls who have been sweeping up the gymnastic medals are at least 16 years old, as the rules require. The American coach pointed out that one of them has a tooth missing, looking as if she is
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