Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, gave the closing prayer at the Republican convention, so, in an act of political balance, agreed to give the closing prayer at the Democratic convention also. But look what he said! We beseech you, almighty God to shed
Harvard University is currently being torn by a cheating scandal. It was discovered that nearly half of the 250 undergraduates in a course called “Introduction to Congress” cheated on a final exam. Why would so many of the nation’s ostensible best and brightest at American’s
George Will reviews The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football by Brian M. Ingrassia, in which we learn that big-time intercollegiate football grew out of progressivism and its vision for higher education: Higher education embraced athletics in the first half
The cult of Obama is back. A big-selling (but non-official) calendar at the Democratic National Convention includes this photo of President Obama’s birth certificate, along with the title “Heaven Sent.” Then it applies John 3:16 as if it were referring to Barack Obama! From Slate:
In line with the “Obama as Messiah” post, here is another example of secularism turning into paganism. Godless people, trying to fill the void, can also invest the state with divine power and authority. Drawing on Charles R. Kesler’s I Am the Change: Barack Obama
A major discovery: It turns out that “junk DNA”, once thought to comprise most of the genetic material packed into our cells, isn’t junk. Instead, it plays a complicated — and still shadowy — role in regulating our genes. That’s the essential insight of a
The Democratic convention has 5,000 delegates. It is being covered by 15,000 reporters. The Republican convention was the same way. And the media is being wooed and pampered by corporate largesse. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post comes clean: The Democratic National Convention is just
The Democratic Party Platform (see our post about that) cut out language from earlier platforms referring to “God.” Paul Ryan and other Republicans jumped on that omission, so party leaders introduced an amendment putting “God” back in. But the convention chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio
The Democrats have entitled their platform “Moving America Forward,” employing a classic progressive metaphor. (Maybe it’s just trying to win over Wisconsin, whose motto is “Forward.”) Read the whole thing. (This is the Platform Committee version, without the references to “God” or “Jerusalem.”) From the
Titles and release dates have been released for the upcoming movie trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit. As announced last month, The Hobbit, Peter Jackson’s long awaited adaptation of the prequel to The Lord of the Rings, will be made into
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