The snow reminds me of an image in Milton’s Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, in which he associates the work of Christ with the snow of winter, which covers up the dead ground with a mantle of purity, just like Christ covers our
The snow reminds me of an image in Milton’s Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, in which he associates the work of Christ with the snow of winter, which covers up the dead ground with a mantle of purity, just like Christ covers our
To placate pro-life Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the Senate worked out this compromise in the Health Care Reform bill: Under the new abortion provisions, states can opt out of allowing plans to cover abortion in the insurance exchanges the bill would set up. The
New fronts are opening up in the Climategate scandal. One is a Russian front. A Russian research agency claims that climate scientists ignored data from that country’s vast landmass and instead cherry-picked evidence to make it look like Russia provided evidence for manmade global warming.
Avatar opens today, the 3-D science fiction epic by James Cameron that some say will change filmmaking forever. I plan on seeing it when I can. In the meantime, if any of you see it this weekend, please tell us how it is. Specifically, how
Biblical Archaeology Review has a good scholarly discussion of why Christmas is celebrated on December 25. And it is evidently NOT because it was superimposed on a pagan holiday: The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was
From Dana Milbank, who covers politics for the Washington Post: Tea parties — they aren't just for conservatives anymore. Liberals are turning against President Obama with an energy that until now has been reserved for Fox News viewers who wear tri-corner hats and wave yellow
More local color from Dana Milbank: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) . . .went to the Senate floor just before noon Wednesday and asked Democrats to agree to an amendment to the health-care bill that "would certify that every member of the Senate has read the
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2009 is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke. You may be wondering, “huh?” But at least it isn’t Barack Obama for the umpteenth time. Or an abstract non-person, such as the Computer. Usually, we play this game
Anne Applebaum finds that the scare tactics of the climate alarmists have reached her children: There is no nihilism like the nihilism of a 9-year-old. "Why should I bother," one of them recently demanded of me, when he was presented with the usual arguments in
The blog GetReligion, which critiques media coverage of religion, points out that most obituaries of Oral Roberts are missing the point. First, as Mollie Hemingway points out, he was NOT the patriarch of the prosperity gospel. Journalists are confusing him with fellow-Tulsan Kenneth Hagin. In
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