I’m kind of behind, with my surgery and all, so this has already gone around, but we must post it. Scholars have found a small fragment in the Coptic language from ancient Egypt that has Jesus referring to “my wife.” Now first of all, as
I’m kind of behind, with my surgery and all, so this has already gone around, but we must post it. Scholars have found a small fragment in the Coptic language from ancient Egypt that has Jesus referring to “my wife.” Now first of all, as
Things have hard edges. The leaves on a tree are distinct from each other. Each pieces of gravel on a path is separate from the others. Faces in a crowd don’t blur together. Who knew? Those who think there are no boundaries between right and
Forget Google Earth, Google Street View, and those proposed Google goggles. Here is Google’s coolest feature: Google will now calculate how many degrees of separation a person is from Kevin Bacon. It is the party game beloved of cinephiles everywhere, one which rewards detailed knowledge
Historian Kenneth C. Davis looks at the origin of the office of the President, something our Founders went round and round about at the Constitutional Convention. In that steamy Philadelphia summer of 1787, as the Constitution was secretly being drafted and the plan for the
First an American puts up a YouTube video inflaming the Muslim world and now a French magazine has published cartoon inflaming the already inflamed Muslim world. A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the
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
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