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
First lady Michelle Obama has joined with food activists to push through changes in school lunch menus as a way to combat childhood obesity and promote better nutrition. But children are rising up in revolution. A new generation of anti-big government, anti-nanny state meddling, is
We live in Virginia, which has been named a battleground state, a crucial source of lots of electoral votes that could go either way. So we denizens of that state–sorry, Commonwealth–are being subject to lots of campaigning. Every time we turn on the television, say,
The NFL reached a tentative labor agreement with the professional referees. There will be no more replacement refs, as of the Thursday night game. The Packers were a sacrifice that caused the reconciliation. I was afraid President Obama would assure his re-election by sending out
It looks bad for Romney. Very, very bad. More than likely, it’s not even going to be close. The RealClear Politics site posts an average of the latest polls, the idea being that taking an average has the effect of leveling out the discrepancies. If
My colleague Dr. Roberta Bayer, editor of The Anglican Way (the publication of the Prayer Book Society), has edited a new book entitled Reformed and Catholic: Essays in Honor of Peter Toon. It contains some fascinating essays about the Reformation in England, Richard Hooker, the
Daniel Siedell is a Christian art critic and curator, the author of God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. In a recent post on his Patheos blog Cultivare, he describes how frustrated he became with evangelical and Reformed scholarship on the arts,
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