The Senate finally has an African-American member. He is a conservative Republican. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) announced she will appoint Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to the Senate, taking the place of Sen. Jim DeMint, who is leaving to head the Heritage Foundation. Scott
The British periodical The Spectator argues that 2012 was the best year ever: It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is borne out by evidence.
Eastern Orthodox folks celebrate Christmas on a different day than we Western Christians do. They don’t go along with the change in the calendar that was orchestrated by Pope Gregory XIII back in 1582 in order to re-align our calendar with the motions of the
The Electoral College cast its ballots on Monday. The results won’t be official, though, until Congress counts the vote on January 6. Electoral college set to vote on President Obama’s reelection – The Washington Post. Is this an anachronism or wisdom from our nation’s Founders?
On another, appropriately escapist note, who has seen the Hobbit last weekend? We plan to take it in later this week in a lull between family Christmas visits. I’ve heard of people who loved it greatly, who were disappointed, and who were made nauseous by
The London Daily Mail has published a grim list of other American school shootings, in addition to the one in Connecticut, whose 27 deaths made it the second worse of all time. 1. Virginia Tech – 32 dead plus the shooter, 16 April 2007, Blacksburg,
The London Daily Mail has published a pretty extensive profile of Adam Lanza, who killed the 7 adults and 20 elementary school children in Newton, Connecticut. He was a loner Goth from a a very affluent family, split by divorce, which seems to have pushed
Mass murder of little children! Matricide! Unfathomable evil. What can be said about the school shootings in Connecticut? (I’m on the road, posting from my phone. Could someone post links to the story as it unfolds?)
Scotland is gearing up for a referendum, to be held in the Fall of 2014, that could lead to secession from Great Britain. The prospects for voters approving independence are, according to polls, quite good. The British Prime Minister David Cameron is no Lincoln. Cameron
E. J. Dionne’s tribute to the late, great Dave Brubeck contains some important insights into the arts in general: Too often in the arts, the fact that someone is accessible is taken to mean that he isn’t truly creative. This is a very wrong idea,
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