Athletes are getting stronger all the time, thanks to scientific conditioning, and records keep falling. But the velocity of a baseball thrown really, really hard has not changed all that much since Walter Johnson’s days. 100 m.p.h., and maybe as much as 3 m.p.h. more,
The separation of church and states, as it is currently construed, forbids public schools or other institutions getting taxpayer money from teaching Christianity, performing Christian rites, or conducting Christian prayers. That ruling, though, is not always being applied, though, when it comes to Islam in
Here is an excellent, information-packed write up about the school where I am the Provost and a literature teacher, Patrick Henry College. It describes our “Ivy League-caliber scholastics paired with a distinctly Christian worldview.” If you think this is a good combination and would like
Hey, remember when we were so traumatized when gasoline hit $2 per gallon? (I can remember being traumatized when it hit $1. I still am! When I was in college, a gallon of gasoline cost 21.9 pennies.) There wasn’t much outcry when it passed the
Charles Krauthammer observes that we have utterly failed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, as that country announces new centrifuge breakthroughs that are necessary for the production of an atomic bomb. Therefore, he says, we must go back to the cold war policy
From Charles Krauthammer on the degeneration of the Democratic presidential race: If there are no policy issues between them and the personality differences have been whittled down, what’s left? Identity. Race, age, and gender. Is this campaign about anything else? Nationally, the older white woman
Hell is freezing over: The Milwaukee Brewers are 6-2. Democrats are the ones getting charged with racism and sexism. Liberals and conservatives seem to be agreeing on something, namely, China. Do you see any similar unlikely events that may portend apocalypse?
Venezuela has banned “The Simpsons” as being too corrupting and replaced it with “Baywatch.” Isn’t “Baywatch” more corrupting than “The Simpsons”? I wonder what Hugo Chavez has against “The Simpsons”? I would argue that satirical humor is intrinsically dangerous to an authoritarian state. Whereas hedonism
The raid of that fundamentalist Mormon sect went into the inner sanctums of the Temple in the compound and found a bed. Reportedly, worshippers used it to have sex with underaged girls. Notice that this is a throwback practice to the ancient fertility religions that
John McCain fought with the New York Times to stop it from printing this story, such is his sense of privacy for his family, but what it shows is very much to his credit. His son, a Lance Corporal of the Marines, who rejects all
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