Here is a feel-good sports story: Dominique Whaley’s photo is nowhere to be found in Oklahoma’s media guide. Before enrolling at OU, Whaley was an NAIA benchwarmer. Some replacement for DeMarco Murray. Some replacement indeed. Rising out of complete obscurity, Whaley rushed right into OU
Now that President Obama’s poll numbers are at record lows is a good time to make my prediction: He will win re-election. Easily. Maybe in a landslide. That the economy is a mess and that he has botched so many of his jobs will make
Economists expected SOME job growth in August, but the numbers came in worse than expected: ZERO job growth in non-farm occupations. WebMonk alerted me to this, urged me to post it while the information is hot off the wires, and was helpful enough to link to
People who oppose abortion like to call themselves “pro-life.” Proponents of abortion object to that term, which implies that they are “anti-life.” But one of the most forthright defenders of abortion–also post-birth infanticide, euthanasia both voluntary and involuntary–really is “anti-life,” arguing philosophically that human life may
When I was a youth, back in the olden days, I got to serve as a page in the Oklahoma state legislature. It filled me with awe, getting to be on the floor of where laws were made, carrying messages for congressmen when they signaled
The term of choice for “government” at FEMA: your “federal family.” Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Lots of Democrats are frustrated with President Obama, prompting some people to fantasize about a primary challenge from, who else?, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, who reportedly is doing a good job as Secretary of State, has put the kibosh on that kind of talk.
In an article on “Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science,” Hillel Ofek describes and helps account for the great contributions of early Islamic scientists and mathematicians, but he then chronicles how ever-more-absolutist brands of Islam came to shut them down. Ofek says that
The universe is just full of wonders, and here is another one: Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. The new planet is far denser than any other known so
It looks like the Libyan rebels, with the help of NATO planes and American bombs, have overthrown the Gaddafi regime. All that remains is to find the guy. No Americans were killed, the Libyans themselves did the heavy lifting to free themselves, and the terrorist-supporting
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