Islamic militants in Iraq have turned their attention to their Christian neighbors, declaring that Christians are legitimate targets and bombing Christian neighborhoods. This follows a recent assault on a church during the worship service that killed more than 40. From the BBC: A series of
David Mills, editor of First Things, takes issue with the C. S. Lewis and his notion of “mere Christianity”; that is, that Christians of all traditions are in agreement on certain key teachings and that this constitutes a common orthodoxy for all Christians. David is
Michael Gerson thinks that the country is going back to “a Jacksonian” foreign policy: Even without a developed Tea Party foreign policy, the center of gravity on Capitol Hill is likely to shift in a Jacksonian direction. Historian Walter Russell Mead describes this potent, populist
The Republicans also made big gains in our nation’s political infrastructure; that is, the important but often neglected state governments: While the Republican gains in the House and Senate are grabbing the most headlines, the most significant results on Tuesday came in state legislatures where
George Will, in a column analyzing the election as a repudiation of liberalism, includes an interesting quotation: George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux agreed that interest-group liberalism has indeed been leavened by idea-driven liberalism. Which is the problem. “These ideas,” Boudreaux says, “are almost exclusively
President Bush refused to allow the United States to be dragged before the United Nations Human Rights Council, but President Obama has reversed that policy. So the United States was hauled before the Human Rights Council, currently chaired by Cuba, to answer for its alleged
Politicians spent some $4 billion trying to get elected, which comes to about $43 per vote. But who ended up with all that money? Mainly television stations and other media outlets. The Washington Post Company reported a 7% jump in revenue for the third quarter,
In our nation’s capital, the homeless shelters are on the outskirts of town, but all of the good panhandling spots are downtown. So the District of Columbia runs 10 buses, at the cost of $1.8 million, so that homeless people can commute. Each morning, the
UPDATE: The following story going around is not true. I believe there is a car like “The Beast” and some of the details about the security arrangements may be true, but the $200 million-per-day expense and the squadron of ships and probably other examples of
Where did that odd but omnipresent word “OK” come from? The word has even gone beyond the English language and has become commonplace in languages around the world? I’ve heard various theories. But a new book about the expression cites what it calls definitive proof
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