The original Reformation, whose anniversary we mark on October 31, began in 1517 as an attempt to bring medieval Catholicism back to the Gospel, the Bible, and Vocation. It has occurred to me that today the various Protestant churches need that same Reformation. THE GOSPEL.
Editorial cartoonist Tom Toles has an amusing bit about how we can blame our politicians for everything: You don’t have to consult any experts; you can see with your own eyes what is happening under the Obama administration. The leaves, ALL OF THEM, are coming
R. R. Reno, in the context of another interesting discussion of the Juan Williams debacle, raises a point that conservatives need to remember: Conservatives believe that some spheres need to be outside government interference, and thus not political. (Unlike current leftist ideologies.) Conservatives, therefore, must
Kyle-Anne Shiver notes another trend in today’s political rhetoric from the left: Accusing those they disagree with of being insane. We have Jon Stewart’s upcoming “Restoring Sanity” rally, the NPR exec who said before she fired him that Juan Williams should just confide his fear
HT to Joe Carter for linking to this mythbusting of assumptions about the Middle Ages, including my pet peeve, the notion that people back then believed the earth was flat. Also that they didn’t bathe: Top 10 Myths About The Middle Ages – Top 10 Lists
Jon Stewart keeps insisting that his “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” that he and Stephen Colbert are putting on next Saturday is not going to be a liberal or progressive partisan event. It sounds designed to be more like a postmodernist-style meta-rally, a rally
I had never heard this quotation from Thomas Jefferson: “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” via Michelle Malkin. It might be possible to make a case for public broadcasting–or it used
The weekend’s big loser in sports was conventional expectations. My Oklahoma Sooners, BCS #1 for one week, were beaten by Missouri. This makes three successive weeks that the #1 team has bitten the dust (Oklahoma meeting the fate of Alabama and Ohio State). I’m sure
Juan Williams, the African-American journalist who is often the token liberal on Fox News, was fired by National Public Radio for saying that passengers in Muslim garb on airplanes make him nervous. This was in the context of arguing with Bill O’Reilly that he should
Communism teaches that religion is the opiate of the people, a consolation that prevents the masses from rising up against their oppressors. Apparently, judging from this article by David Ignatius, the true opiate of the people in still-Communist China is material prosperity and pop culture:
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