The document dump required for nominees to the Supreme Court includes Elena Kagan’s Master’s Thesis, which is a criticism of the 1960’s-era Warren court’s manipulation of the law to advance its ideas of social justice: The documents include the thesis Kagan wrote in 1983 during
Why is this wrong? As far as God is concerned, someone is unemployed if the person is not working for Him, said a Latin American mission leader at a global missions conference in Tokyo. Many people argue that they have a job and have plenty
An exceedingly odd tidbit from The Washington Post’s political columnist Perry Bacon: Democrats should not talk about “the environment,” “the unemployed” or “the uninsured.” Instead, they should replace those phrases with ones that have more appeal to voters, such as “the air we breathe and
Talk about “what’s in a name,” as in the post below. Consider naming your boy “Rand.” That is what small-government congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul did. It seems exceedingly odd for a Christian to name his kid after the militantly atheistic virtue-of-selfishness philosopher Ayn
Many of you have followed, with me, the labyrinthine ways of “Lost.” Now, the television puzzler is approaching its finale. What do you think the final explanation will be? HT: Larry Wilson
Is it any wonder that Christians are losing their credibility? Indiana congressman Mark Souder’s resignation, announced Tuesday, came after anonymous tipsters called his aides and his opponents in a Republican primary to say he was having an extramarital affair with a part-time staffer, according to
You have probably heard by now of the latest survey of baby names, finding that the most popular names of last year were Jacob and Isabella. But this article by Laura Wattenberg goes deeper, surveying the history of naming customs and noting, among other things,
I hadn’t realized that science, despite all of the claims that it has all the answers, remains stuck at a very basic conundrum: Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of
Thirty people died in the Cumberland River flood that inundated Nashville and other places in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. But, as we have complained on this blog, it barely made the news. This, despite our three 24-hour cable news networks that one would think have
A sobering piece by Mark Steyn: What with the Fort Hood mass murderer, the Christmas Pantybomber, and now the Times Square bomber, you may have noticed a little uptick in attempted terrorist attacks on the U.S. mainland in the last few months. Rep. Lamar Smith
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