2008-02-22T07:39:41-05:00

This business with John McCain and a pretty lobbyist strikes me as low, low scandal mongering.  I haven’t read any direct allegations of a sexual relationship between them, but that is the insinuation with all the photos of the woman in her glamorous gown.  The

2008-02-22T07:38:24-05:00

John McCain is getting tangled up in the campaign finance rules he himself devised: FEC Warns McCain on Campaign Spending.

2008-02-22T07:37:25-05:00

Anthony Sacramone reviews another critique of the new atheism, “The Irrational Atheist” by Vox Day.  That author deals with the slur that religion has caused most of the world’s wars by actually counting them: Day found 123 wars that could validly be claimed to have

2008-02-22T07:35:36-05:00

OK, churches can go back to having Superbowl parties again: NFL Reverses Call On Church Parties

2008-02-21T07:54:42-05:00

Patrick Henry College, where I teach as a Literature Professor and which I administer as the Provost, stands in stark contrast to the institutions and educational methods that I have been criticizing.  We offer a classical Christian education with the highest academic standards to some

2008-02-21T07:52:52-05:00

Dr. Aikman recounting one reason the noted atheist Anthony Flew (whose arguments against the existence of God I was subjected to when I was an undergraduate) changed his mind:  The “Monkey Theorem,” in its popular form, holds that if you have an infinite number of monkeys banging

2008-02-21T07:51:16-05:00

Dr. Aikman on an urban legend pushed by the “new atheists,” and one of their major blind spots:  Atheists who spend much of their time revisiting the crimes of religion ought to be quizzed again and again about what happens when governments adopt atheism as their

2008-02-20T07:26:18-05:00

Susan Jacoby wrote an op-ed piece, based on a book she is releasing, entitled The Dumbing Of America.  She decries the anti-intellectualism of America today, citing the rank ignorance about history and geography that is rampant today, as well as statistics such as 40% of Americans

2008-02-20T07:26:05-05:00

A letter-writer to the “Washington Post” fulminates at the way NASCAR allowed the Daytona 500 to begin with a prayer.  Not only a prayer, but one that “invoked Jesus Christ by name.”  This, says the letter-writer, is another step in the effort to make Christianity

2008-02-20T07:25:44-05:00

Inflation in the South African nation of Zimbabwe has reached Weimar-republic-like proportions. Michael Gerson writes how that nation’s dictator President Mugabe–who famously confiscated the land of all white farmers, who had supplied much of the food supply for generations–is funding his predatory government by simply printing money.

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