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
It turns out that the man who made that reportedly salacious movie about Mohammed, The Innocence of Muslims, that has set the Middle East on fire is NOT Sam Bacile, an Israeli-American with 200 Jewish investors, as he claimed. That was a fake identity for
As you may know, frozen woolly mammoths have been discovered in ice formations, more or less intact, since the 18th century. So why not clone some, bringing them back from extinction? A Russian university says scientists have discovered frozen woolly mammoth fragments that may contain
The U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed, along with three other Americans, when Islamists fired rocket grenadees at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Mobs were protesting an American-made movie ostensibly funded by Jewish militants entitled Innocence of Muslims, which depicts Mohammad
Bob Dylan has a new album, Tempest, and it sounds really, really good. From Washington Post music critic Chris Richards: For his 35th studio album, “Tempest,” Bob Dylan wanted to write religious songs and ended up hopping a freight train to the apocalypse. Couching images
The Democratic National Convention was full of angst about how “middle class” Americans are having such a hard time, how “the system is rigged against them” (as Elizabeth Warren put it), how the rich control everything, and other evocations of national misery. But if things
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