Bill Cosby was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last night, a much-deserved tribute for a true humorist in the Mark Twain tradition. Notice that Cosby doesn’t tell funny jokes. He tells funny stories. How did he learn how to tell them so
A health care reform proposal to set up a government health insurance program to compete with private companies is back in the mix. Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson discusses how it would work, but offers this conclusion: A favored public plan would probably doom today's
My colleague Dr. Roberta Bayer, professor of political theory here at Patrick Henry College is a conservative Anglican, an editor with the Prayer Book Society, which champions the 1928 version of the Book of Common Prayer. She writes about how the Pope’s offer to let
Setting up legalized domestic partnerships for homosexual couples is a better option to gay marriage, isn’t it? And churches might bless gay commitments without buying into gay marriage, can’t they? Well, Sweden is turning domestic partnerships into marriages. And the state church of Sweden, Lutheran
This blog was down for much of the weekend due to some hacker! I prefer to think that it was some automatic spammer that detected a vulnerability in some outdated software rather than some individual person acting out of malice or antagonism. Before too much
Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott reviews a book entitled Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change. It’s based on a travelling exhibition featuring works by noted artists based on President Obama. Mr. Kennicott, who presents himself as reliably liberal, is
The government is now asserting control over how much businesses can pay their executives by targeting not just companies that taxpayers have bailed out, but also companies that are merely regulated by the government. (And what companies aren’t?) From The Washington Post: The Federal Reserve
Charles Krauthammer on how the White House is trying to “delegitimize dissent”: The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity
As I drive to and from work, I’ve been listening to Sittin’ On 80: 80 Aussie Truckin’ Classics by the late and very great Australian folk and country music bard Slim Dusty. It’s a 4-disc boxed set of songs about truck driving. There are, of
New authors produce sequels to famous books written by others: In bookstores this week, Arthur Dent is hitchhiking through the galaxy again. Dracula glides through the London fog once more, still in need of overwrought young women with plunging necklines and exposed veins. Winnie the
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