Three teenagers in Duncan, Oklahoma, shot and killed a college student from Australia just jogging by. Why? Because they were bored. This happened not in some big city but in a small Oklahoma town of less than 24,000. Boring, perhaps (speaking as a product of
The only nations in the world that permit abortion after the fetus is viable are China, North Korea, Canada, and the United States. (more…)
Russell Moore–identified as one of those mythical “Lutheran Baptists“–is the new spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention on social issues. He is taking a different approach from the conventional political activist on the “Christian right.” He says that Christians have lost the so-called “culture wars”
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is championing Edward Snowden and his NSA revelations, says that Republican libertarianism–and specifically Rand Paul along with his father Ron–are the “only hope” for American politics. He praised their principled stands against drone assassinations and (wait for it) abortion! I’m
In Egypt, the military rulers and the democratically-elected Islamists they overthrew are engaged in a bloodbath. At least 600 people have been killed so far. The Islamists are taking the opportunity to target Christians along with their property and their churches. Houses and businesses owned
In my book Postmodern Times, I write about how the will has replaced reason in contemporary thought. In my book Modern Fascism, I discuss the great filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s celebration of Hitler, The Triumph of the Will, and argue that the phrase encapsulates the philosophy
We have discussed the president’s bad habit of ignoring or even altering laws that he finds inconvenient. Charles Krauthammer catalogs just how many times and to what extent he and his administration have done this. (more…)
We talked about the two paths for Republicans. Apparently there are also two paths opening up for Democrats. Two columns in the Washington Post cite a growing schism in the Democratic Party between old-line pro-union economic liberals and big business Democrats who favor Wall Street.
Chris Taylor at Mashable discusses how Google Glass (a set of glasses connected to Google) will change advertising. According to the patent application, the technology will track gazes, charging advertisers for what ads the wearers look at and for how long they do so. But
Washington Post political columnist Chris Cillizza has written an interesting column saying that the Republican Party must choose between two different paths, as represented by two likely presidential candidates: the moderate pragmatism of New Jersey governor Chris Christie; or the purist small-government principles of Kentucky
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