2010-07-26T07:59:18-04:00

Our electricity went out yesterday from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. Was it the North Koreans? Our area’s top-secret agencies? An infrastructure attack on our area’s top-secret agencies? No. Apparently it was just trees that blew over because of a quick storm we had. But

2010-07-24T08:21:56-04:00

The naval exercises are set to begin on Sunday. North Korea said it would counter U.S. and South Korean joint naval exercises with “nuclear deterrence” after the Obama administration said the government in Pyongyang shouldn’t take any provocative steps. North Korea will “legitimately counter with

2010-07-23T06:05:37-04:00

As I posted a while back ago, our friend on this blog Bror Erickson has translated a book by the Swedish Christian novelist Bo Giertz, The Knights of Rhodes. In my review, I complained about the large number of typographical and other errors. After corresponding

2010-07-23T06:00:47-04:00

Have you followed the Shirley Sherrod fiasco?  Conservative news aggregator Andrew Briethbart posted a video of this African-American Department of Agriculture official saying how she once wanted to refuse to help a particular  farmer save his farm because he was white.  An uproar ensued.  Sherrod’s

2010-07-23T05:30:20-04:00

According to Angelo M. Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, power in America is held by a distinct ruling class,  comprised of both Democrats and Republicans, a political and social elite that uses the government to advance its interests against the two-thirds

2010-07-23T05:00:03-04:00

Learn seven lines a day. . . The steady degradation of our mental faculties as we age has been documented in depressing detail. If you’re over 30, you’re losing it—the only question is how fast. So it’s nice when a study comes along suggesting that

2010-07-22T06:00:52-04:00

While I was in France and Germany, I was most struck by how in the cities and towns the center of the community is still, to this day, the cathedral or the church. This is true of both Strasbourg, France, with its Roman Catholic cathedral,

2010-07-22T05:22:58-04:00

I learned that in France, Protestants–particularly Protestant women–can be identified by their wearing the Huguenot Cross. The Huguenots (the origins of the name are uncertain) were French followers of the Reformation. Sometimes they thrived, but other times they endured horrible persecution. In the St. Bartholomew’s

2010-07-22T05:00:48-04:00

July 20 was the 41st anniversary of a human being landing on the moon.  The tiny spacecraft was guided by computers with far less capability than the one you are using to read this blog.  “One small step for a man,” said Neil Armstrong, “one

2010-07-21T06:00:06-04:00

The Washington Post is running a three-part expose of America’s security industry, comprised of government agencies and a huge number of private contractors.  Here is the opening: The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become

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