Tune into the presidential debate at 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time, fire up your computer, and come to this site and this post. As the debate proceeds, type your observations, reactions, profound insights, and snide remarks as comments. I’ll do the same. We can discuss the
Mitt Romney seems to dismiss the 47% of Americans who will never vote for him anyway. James P. Pinkerton, though, recounts another kind of conservatism–the tradition of Disraeli, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and others–that is oriented to the 100%. This is
Rod Dreher is reading The Odyssey with his son. He is finding that it ties right into his life. Homer’s epic is about Odysseus coming home. Which is not the same as staying at home. Odysseus had to go to Troy, but after his business
That’s the position taken by the Methodist church. From Mark Tooley: Recently a newly appointed official with the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society explained on her agency’s website that “we are a church that is pro-life, not pro-birth.” Interesting explanation. What does
Tomorrow is the first presidential debate. If you were one of the moderators, what questions would you ask Barack Obama and Mitt Romney?
Daniel McCarthy, the editor of The American Conservative, answers that question with a “no.” He points out that Republicans have become very successful on the local and state levels, but haven’t won a plurality of votes in a national presidential race for four out of the
The Washington Nationals, my home team now, after years of being bad, have won the National League East, contending with Cincinnati–another team that came out of nowhere–for the best record in baseball. (The Nationals lost to the Phillies, but Pittsburgh beat Atlanta, arriving at the
Great quotation and embedded quotations from novelist Andrew Klavan, as part of his review of the founder-of-Scientology movie The Master: There’s a reason modernism collapsed into the ruinous and stupid-making morass of post-modernism. Ultimately, modernist reality was smaller and seedier than human life as it
The Supreme Court opens a new session today. Lots of important cases are on the docket: The first blockbuster case — a lawsuit challenging affirmative action in college admissions. The court will hear oral arguments in the case on Oct. 10, only the second week
There are some twenty new taxes or tax increases that click in with Obamacare. Here are the most notable: The Obamacare Medical Device Tax – a $20 billion tax increase: Medical device manufacturers employ 409,000 people in 12,000 plants across the country. Obamacare imposes a
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