The latest thing in baseball is to emphasize defense. And to help make that happen, baseball statisticians have figured out a way to quantify a player’s defensive performance, coming up with the counterpart to batting average called “Ultimate Zone Rating.” Here is how it is
Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson is no Republican shill, nor can he even be called a conservative; but he has strong words about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Samuelson argues that the current administration’s approach to the ballooning federal deficit–which it responds to with
There is historical evidence to suggest that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem really was erected on the site of Christ’s Empty Tomb. Go here for a series of panoramic 360-degree virtual tours of both the exterior and the interior of the church.
Easter by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) MOST glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day, Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin; And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win: This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin; And grant
The Banquet by George Herbert (1633) Welcome sweet and sacred cheer, Welcome deare; With me, in me, live and dwell: For thy neatnesse passeth sight, Thy delight Passeth tongue to taste or tell. O what sweetnesse from the bowl Fills my soul, Such as is,
My daughter teaches an online Latin class to homeschoolers. She just sent me this link to one of her students, 15-year-old Ruby Jane Smith. It turns out, she is yet another of these prodigious Christian homeschoolers who are doing amazing things! Ruby Jane is a
Charles Krauthammer rehearses the staggering national debt that we are facing and that it can only mean raising taxes. He says the only tax that could raise the kind of revenue we need will be the Value Added Tax, the national sales tax on every
An editorial in the Washington Post, no less, which supported the health care reform bill, admits that the lawsuits seeking to strike down the new law may have a case: Just minutes after Tuesday’s signing ceremony, the constitutionality of the health insurance reform law came
This grew out of a conversation I had yesterday with a student over lunch. He was talking about why the books are nearly always better than the movies that are made based on them. I said that this is true, but there are some cases
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has sobering news about the federal budget: President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90
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