Condoleezza Rice Is Pursuing the VP Spot. She is denying, though, that she wants the office.) Hey, I wanted her to run for president! But would she be a good candidate?
Condoleezza Rice Is Pursuing the VP Spot. She is denying, though, that she wants the office.) Hey, I wanted her to run for president! But would she be a good candidate?
Have you seen the website Wikileaks? People from all over the world can post documents that governments, businesses, and the like do not want public. A bunch of embarrassing documents about the Scientology religion have been posted. Scientology, Inc., has sued, as is their wont,
China just sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3 1/2 years in prison for writing this article. Here are some excerpts: China has consistently persecuted human rights activists, political dissidents and freelance writers and journalists. The blind activist Chen Guangcheng, recipient of the 2007
Falls Church, one of the oldest congregations here in Virginia, broke away from the Episcopal church due to its rampant disregard of historic Christianity. The congregation, one of the largest in that denomination, affiliated itself with an archbishop from Nigeria. The Episcopal church sued, claiming
What are we to think about that action against the Mormon polygamists in Texas, surrounded in their compound by government agents worried about child abuse? From 400+ Kids Taken From Polygamist Compound: More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state
Bob Dylan was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for music. See this if you don’t believe me. And it’s much deserved, say I. Considering our on-going discussion of aesthetics and granted that Dylan doesn’t exactly have the best VOICE, why do you think I’m such
I mentioned the fact that I can never recall watching a basketball game in which my team has won. (The one exception is a high school game in my home town when I was in gradeschool.) Nevertheless, I turned on the NCAA championship game to
Yesterday, April 6, was the day set aside to commemorate the two Reformation artists Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Dürer, this being the day the latter artist died. (Are Lutherans the only ones to mark this day? Did these artists get on the Anglican calendar? I
You might want to contrast the work of Cranach & Durer on their special day with another artist much in the news, the late Andy Warhol. The conservative art critic says this about him in a posting entitled Roger Kimball Warhol vs. art: According to
We may be going from the web to the grid. New technology to be launched this summer may lead to the internet, which still relies on phone-company type switches, becoming obsolete. The new “grid” will eventually run 10,000 times faster than broadband, making possible near-instantaneous
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