My old friend Karen Swallow Prior has some interesting observations about the excuses of both Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner and their underlying gnostic assumptions. The good news is that the public is no longer buying it: Media coverage of the story and the public’s
More political madness that prevents good government: We don’t allow our politicians to change their minds, even though they often need to. A politician who is open to persuasion is condemned as a flip-flopper. So observes Kathleen Parker: A politician may be able to survive
A blog entitled “A Gay Girl in Damascus” by an Arab-American lesbian named Amina Arraf attracted quite a bit of attention with her accounts of living in the oppressive and dangerous society of Syria, chronicling too the “Arab Spring” of the populace rising up to
A mash-up of weird biology and invasion of the body-snatchers: Last month, three insect and plant disease researchers in the University of California system reported a discovery about the tomato spotted wilt virus. As its name suggests, this virus infects and damages tomato plants. It’s
I watched the New Hampshire debate between the Republican presidential candidates. Pawlenty is articulate; Bachman sounds like a good campaigner; Paul makes a lot of sense; Gingrich is a fountain of ideas; Santorum seems solid; Cain sounds like a good guy; Romney sounds more conservative
So far the main argument why the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” is unconstitutional is that it forces individuals to buy health insurance. But there is a much bigger constitutional issue at stake, as George Will points out: The point of PPACA is cost
Did any of you get your invitation? Dominique Strauss-Kahn, naturally, isn’t attending this year, and his likely successor Christine Lagarde is in China, but the Bilderberg Conference which kicks off in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz on Thursday retains its conspiratorial chic and pulling
Yesterday was Pentecost, the day the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Church. In celebration and contemplation of the day and the new season of the church year that we will be in for awhile, I would like to pose a couple questions: (1)
Senator Tom Coburn, who represents my natal state of Oklahoma, is probably the biggest deficit hawk in Congress. He’s a deficit eagle, as fiscally responsible and economically conservative as they come. But he’s taking flack from conservative activist Grover Norquist and others for violating the
The state of Alaska, following a freedom of information request, has released some 24,000 e-mails from Sarah Palin. Apparently giddy yet overwhelmed with so much information, the Washington Post is putting them online and asking its own readers to rummage around in them and help
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