My wife’s school held its annual chili cook-off and talent show last Friday. One of the judges got stuck in traffic, so I was enlisted to be one of the judges for the chili contest. I had always wanted to do that! There were nine
My wife’s school held its annual chili cook-off and talent show last Friday. One of the judges got stuck in traffic, so I was enlisted to be one of the judges for the chili contest. I had always wanted to do that! There were nine
Those of you who are Lutherans or who are considering Lutheranism or who are fellow travelers might want to sign up for The Wittenberg Trail, an online community of some 800 Lutherans from around the world who meet together online to theologize and socialize. And get
Unlike the “new atheists,” the old atheists, such as Nietzsche and Camus, were at least honest in facing up to the implications of their non-belief. Consider what Walter Burns says about Camus’ “The Stranger”: Meursault, its hero (actually, its antihero), is a murderer, but a
“The Weekly Standard” has a remarkable article by Walter Berns entitled Religion and the Death Penalty, arguing that the two are intimately connected. A sample: The best case for the death penalty–or, at least, the best explanation of it–was made, paradoxically, by one of the most
Some conservatives, including some of you commenters on this blog, are saying that there is no difference between John McCain and the Democrats, that we will, in effect, have a liberal administration no matter who wins.But consider this from William J. Bennett & Seth Leibsohn,
It was bad enough that the jihadists in Iraq are turning mentally-handicapped women into suicide bombers. Al-Qaida is also using children as young as 10.
Romney drops his Presidential Campaign!It really is a two-man race. Again, I ask, will movement conservatives rally to Huckabee? I say “not a chance.” But I’m curious what they will do.UPDATE: McCain gives a stemwinder speech to conservatives at their big meeting, CPAC. He seemed
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is dead at 91. The Indian guru turned a pop-version of Hindu meditation into a $3.5 billion empire. With his robes and flowers, the Maharishi and his for-profit meditation seminars became a fixture of the Sixties, though his reach went beyond the counter-culture
The more-generally-acceptable war in Afghanistan is being waged by NATO. The problem is, some of the NATO troops there–e.g., the Germans–are not allowed by their governments to risk casualties in combat. This creates all kinds of command and control problems, when whole units will not
Japan used to be the world’s economic success story. Now, after a decades-long slide, its own government officials are saying that Japan no longer has a “first-class economy.” According to this article, its woes include too much government regulation, declining productivity, stagnant innovation, and. .
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