Glen Campbell is not just another pop celebrity, though that’s what he’s best known for. He happens to be a great, great guitar player. I’ve heard him play. Anyway, the news came out awhile ago that he has Alzheimer’s. What I didn’t know is that
Glen Campbell is not just another pop celebrity, though that’s what he’s best known for. He happens to be a great, great guitar player. I’ve heard him play. Anyway, the news came out awhile ago that he has Alzheimer’s. What I didn’t know is that
It looks like the Republican presidential nominee will be Mitt Romney. Tea party favorite non-candidate Chris Christie has endorsed him, as have former candidate Tim Pawlenty. Meanwhile, many conservative pundits are writing columns about how terrible it would be for someone to oppose a candidate
The Arab Spring in Egypt is resulting in riots and persecution targeting Coptic Christians, who make up some 10% of the population. This weekend some 17 were killed. See this. So how can Egyptians tell if one of their countrymen is a Christian? Well, in
I didn’t watch the debate last night between the Republican presidential candidates. I hear they all ganged up on Herman Cain, who really has become the putative front runner as the alternative to Mitt Romney. I heard that Michele Bachmann cast aspersions on Cain’s 9-9-9
Here is how George Will answers Elizabeth Warren’s statement that we posted yesterday: Such an agenda’s premise is that individualism is a chimera, that any individual’s achievements should be considered entirely derivative from society, so the achievements need not be treated as belonging to the
ABC reports that officials have thwarted a scheme to attack the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Washington, D. C., a terrorist attack planned by the government of Iran! FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United
I’ve been studying Anglicanism lately. But then I’ve run up against the Black Rubric, so-called because it was printed in bold type in the Book of Common Prayer. It enjoins kneeling while receiving the Sacrament, but goes on to deny explicitly any kind of real,
In addition to my other pessimistic predictions, I am thinking that liberal ideology will soon return to popularity. Here is a forceful statement by the liberal law professor and Obama administration regulator Elizabeth Warren, now running for Scott Brown’s Senate seat in Massachusetts: “There is
Ezra Klein argues that neither presidents nor congress, no matter which party, will be able to do much to influence the economy. What will either pull us down further or bring improvement is what happens in Europe. And so, if the state of the economy
Following up on last week’s post and video of the The McGurk Effect, it would seem that we have in this demonstration of how the mind alters what we hear some empirical evidence to support the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Which is ironic because Kant’s
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