“Epiphany. 3 a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure b :
Jerry Salyer at Front Porch Republic has written a stunning essay on “conservative liberalism”; that is, people who are conservatives while still embracing the assumptions of liberalism (for example, commercialism, progressivism, radical individualism). Think of a church that claims conservative theology and values while throwing
Libertarian Steve Horwitz explains the context of those Ron Paul newsletters with a fascinating survey of the history and the varying strategies of that movement: The attempt to court the right through appeals to the most unsavory sorts of arguments was a conscious part of
The President is not only planning to campaign against Congress. He is evidently going to govern against Congress as well. He has said that he is going to start implementing his programs by executive order. Now he has pulled something that seems to me to
Michele Bachmann Drops Out of Presidential Race – ABC News. If her 6% were to go to Santorum, he’d be a big winner in the Iowa caucus. Won’t her fans go to him rather than to Romney? Rick Perry will stay in the race for
The prospects for more Narnia movies in the near future are not good, as Walden Media, which produced the first three, has lost the rights to the novels. Fans of popular book series The Chronicles of Narnia have been left in limbo over when, or
Rick Santorum surged into a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucus votes, the difference being a mere 8 votes. Ron Paul came in third. Here are the results, with the raw numbers and the percentages: Mitt Romney 30,015 24.6% Rick
Chaplain Mike at Internet Monk converted to Lutheranism, something we discussed at length not too long ago. Many of us were dismayed that we went the route of the ELCA rather than the more conservative synods (LCMS, WELS, ELS). He addresses that, with reference to
You’ve got to read Mollie Hemingway’s take down of that article in The Atlantic, in which University of Iowa journalism professor Stephen Bloom ridicules the state that pays his salary for being religious, for having so many farmers, for eating casseroles, and other rather normal
Conservative blogger Michael Gerson accuses Ron Paul of trying to completely undo the legacy of the Republican party and gives a litany of reasons to oppose him: No other recent candidate hailing from the party of Lincoln has accused Abraham Lincoln of causing a “senseless”
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