Ruth Marcus has a column on entitlement behavior: By entitlement behavior, I mean the apparent belief of too many political figures — make that too many male political figures — that the ordinary rules of acceptable conduct do not apply to them. Exhibits A, B
I have been sparing you this year my interest in American Idol, the popular talent show that causes the American public to exercise aesthetic judgments. But now we are at the finale. The last two standing are Scotty McCreary and Laure Alaina, 17 and 16
President Obama’s peace plan for the Middle East calls for Israel to go back to its borders before the 1967 war. In that war, the Arab states attacked Israel from all sides but were route. Israel seized the rest of Jerusalem, the West Bank, and
I’m writing this on Saturday morning, but I’ve set it up so that the post appears on Monday. So I MIGHT be raptured by the end of the day. I don’t know yet. Right now I’m either in Heaven or Texas. So who is left?
I was afraid Harold Camping would disappear, making it look like he, at least, was raptured on Saturday, even if he was the only one. But he showed up and made a statement: “It has been a really tough weekend,” said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old
When American presidents send troops into combat, they have 60 days before Congress–to whom the Constitution gives the power to declare war–needs to act to authorize the action. Friday was 60 days after we got involved in the war in Libya. Congress doesn’t seem to
I heard back from the distinguished scholar John Warwick Montgomery on the symbolism of Lucas Cranach’s seal, the winged serpent device from his coat of arms that he used to sign his paintings and that we have adopted as the logo of the Cranach Institute
Joplin, Missouri–an hour’s drive from where I grew up, where we would often go when we wanted a “big city”–was struck by a tornado that is said to have destroyed three-fourths of the city, killing 89 people! UPDATE: Now the report is that “only” one
Tomorrow, May 21, in the year of our Lord 2011, the rapture will occur. According to the calculations of radio preacher Harold Camping, all true Christians will be taken up into Heaven at 6:00 p.m., when that hour comes in all time zones. I suppose
Lars Walker, the novelist who is a long-time commenter on this blog, has written a perceptive review of the hit movie Thor. He liked it–as did I, actually, for the most part–but what struck me in his review is his point about how even our
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