A baby woolly mammoth has been discovered in Russia’s frozen tundra. Not a fossil, not bones, but an intact woolly mammoth! It will be displayed in Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Wooly mammoth carcass from Siberia reveals information about ice-age creatures – washingtonpost.com.
You have got to read the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the founder of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, who became an Israeli spy and then a convert to Christianity. How did that latter part happen? It was very simple: During those
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is no conservative, but he is worried, very worried about the deficit. He sees what is happening in Greece as our future: Look into the face of George Papandreou, America, and see your future. The Greek prime minister is in
Maybe not exactly, but the Academy Awards give Roger Simon reason to think that the ideological spectrum in Hollywood may be widening: The 2010 Academy Awards may not have marked the end of “liberal Hollywood” as we know it, but they certainly put a solid
The “Christian Science Monitor,” not a conservative publication, has a piece by Mark Sappenfield entitled Reconciliation: why healthcare reform ‘nuclear option’ is deadly. It discusses the tactic of evading the filibuster rules so as to pass the Health Care Reform bill with a bare majority,
Muslims in Nigeria have massacred over 500 Christians in a horrific outbreak of violence: UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their
John Paul Stevens is the only Supreme Court Justice who is a Protestant. He will soon turn 90. There are six Catholics, some liberal and some conservative, and two Jews. And yet 51% of Americans are Protestant. Lately, there has been an effort to diversify
From Victor Davis Hanson: We want all the dividends of industrial society, but an 18th century wilderness at the same time. . . .The redwood deck is beloved, not the falling coast redwood tree; kitchen granite counters are de rigueur, not the blasting at the
“Hurt Locker,” the intense thriller about an American bomb squad in Iraq–a low budget film with a tiny audience–beat the 3-D anti-military environmentalist blockbuster “Avatar” in the Academy Awards. “Avatar” won the cinematography and art direction, as was proper, but “Hurt Locker” won best picture
I love analogies. Here is one from Charles Krauthammer on a conundrum in the health care reform bill: Obama was reduced to suggesting that his health-care reform was indeed popular because when you ask people about individual items (for example, eliminating exclusions for preexisting conditions
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