More Portlandia. . . . This is more than a satire of artsiness. It cuts to the human condition: how we idealize nature while also loathing and fearing actual nature. HT: Joanna
More Portlandia. . . . This is more than a satire of artsiness. It cuts to the human condition: how we idealize nature while also loathing and fearing actual nature. HT: Joanna
Another example of the prowess of the U. S. military: Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, elders in the Somali village of Galkayo said they began hearing an unusual sound: the whirl of helicopters. It was the culmination of a daring and risky mission by about two
Newt Gingrich is always wrapping himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan, but at the time, when Newt was a Congressman, he was best known for criticizing Reagan’s policies and for putting down the president. So says Reagan administration official Elliott Abrams, who was there:
In the context of discussing an embarrassing video in which a hysterical fan blames the playoff loss of the Green Bay Packers on the fact that she wore sparkly nail polish, Ed Driscoll quotes a passage from David Frum’s How We Got Here: The ‘70s:
Last Sunday was Life Sunday, with Scripture readings about Jonah and the calling of the first Disciples. See what Pastor Douthwaite did with all of this, how he turned the pro-life message into being not just about Law (abortion is terrible) but about the Gospel.
I always make a point of watching the annual state of the union address–no matter who the president is– as a sort of patriotic discipline. But I was not able to watch it last night. What did I miss? What did you learn?
David Ellefson, bassist for the heavy metal group Megadeth, is studying to become a pastor in the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod: Ellefson grew up in the church. Each Sunday, his family drove from their farm in southwest Minnesota to Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, where David attended
Another example of how classical literature can help us think through contemporary issues. Rob Goodman writes about the information overload that the internet can give us in terms of Petronius: For those of us left numb by the Internet, it might help to consider the
Obamacare will force church-affiliated institutions to have insurance policies that will give employees free contraceptives (without even the usual co-pay!). There will be no exemption for Roman Catholics who disapprove of birth control as a matter of doctrine: Many church-affiliated institutions will have to cover
The rumor on the Drudge Report was that Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife would come out with revelations that would sink his campaign. It didn’t work that way. Her interview, along with Newt’s smackdown of CNN’s John King for bringing it up to lead off the last
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