Having completed several weeks of recovery from cataract surgery, we do it all again starting today, as my left eye gets operated on. Despite the forced inactivity, I was able to keep the blog going pretty well, so I hope can do the same this
Having completed several weeks of recovery from cataract surgery, we do it all again starting today, as my left eye gets operated on. Despite the forced inactivity, I was able to keep the blog going pretty well, so I hope can do the same this
Our little experiment in industrial socialism didn’t work quite as well as the Democrats are saying. General Motors did not pay back the bailout, and the American auto industry is not exactly “roaring back,” as the President said. The government still owns over a quarter
Leftover from the Democratic convention, Peggy Noonan’s review: Barack Obama is deeply overexposed and often boring. He never seems to be saying what he’s thinking. His speech Thursday was weirdly anticlimactic. There’s too much buildup, the crowd was tired, it all felt flat. He was
Richard III was the last Plantagenet king of England. In Shakespeare’s telling, in the play of that name, Richard was a hunchbacked villain, who murdered his way to the crown, had the child princes in the Tower of London killed, and met his rightful death
Tensions in Israel are building over Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The USA has been trying to get Israel to stand down. Meanwhile, a big fleet comprised of American, British, and other allied naval forces is assembling in the Straits of Hormuz for war games and
The White House asked Google, which owns YouTube, to take down the 14-minute “trailer”–some people are doubting whether there even is a full movie–of The Innocence of Muslims, which has sparked anti-American riots throughout the Muslim world. Google did take down the video temporarily, but
Catholic author George Weigel says that the current election amounts to a choice between Hobbes and Burke: This is a contest, to take symbolic reference points, between Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and Edmund Burke (1729-1797). Both were British subjects. Both had a profound impact on modern
Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler illustrates why talking trash against an opponent is not wise. Before his team played the Packers, he preened, he bragged, he taunted. And then he got sacked 7 times and threw 4 interceptions: When you talk trash to the opposing
A key Lutheran teaching is that infants can have faith. This is why Lutherans see no contradiction between infant baptism and justification by faith. Lutherans see faith not just in terms of intellectual knowledge or conscious volition, but as trust, dependence, and relationship with a
Why does Obama still lead Romney in the polls, despite the dismal state of the economy? Charles Krauthammer says it’s because of the “empathy gap.” People think Obama seems to have more empathy–more feeling for people, a greater ability to identify with others, especially when
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