In tonight’s State of the Union address, the president will propose a three-year spending freeze in much, though not all, of the federal budget as a way to address the surging deficit: President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic
“Avatar” passed another James Cameron movie, “Titanic,” as the top-grossing movie of all time, pulling in as of Sunday $1.292 billion worldwide. The movie about the ship earned $1.242 billion. See this report. In my review of the movie, I found it visually spectacular, but
I quote George Will here not to vaunt over liberals, as he does, but to relish his language, especially his Biblical allusion in the last of these sentences. Will first quotes the president, who said of the health care legislation, “We are on the precipice
Kevin Huffman draws out what politicians can learn from American Idol: As Scott Brown stormed to victory in the Massachusetts Senate race Tuesday night, I huddled with my daughters watching Fox. No, not the gloating election coverage on Fox News — I wouldn’t do that
The New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts will play in the Superbowl, as seems fitting. Both teams came close to having perfect seasons until the very end. That would have set up the most remarkable Superbowl ever. But still, though my own favorites didn’t
The pro-abortionists are worried. Journalist Robert McCartney, one of their number, explains why: I went to the March for Life rally Friday on the Mall expecting to write about its irrelevance. Isn’t it quaint, I thought, that these abortion protesters show up each year on
You’ve got to read Mollie Z. Hemingway’s article in the Wall Street Journal about disciplining children. Here is just a sample: Conservative Christian parenting is often unfairly presented as little more than “spare the rod, spoil the child,” advice distilled from the Bible's book of
Rev. Matt Harrison, head of Lutheran World Relief & Human Care, is on the ground in Haiti Mercy Journeys with Pastor Harrison blogging about the work of LCMS pastoral and medical teams. A sample: I’ve never been so proud and humbled to be a member
In yesterday’s post about Patrick Henry College’s national championship in moot court, tODD commented that “the word ‘moot’ is used rather bizarrely in common parlance. I know that etymologically speaking, it means ‘meeting’ (Entmoot, anyone?). But it is frequently used to mean ‘not worth debating,’
The Supreme Court overturned much of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, ruling that the First Amendment forbids criminal sanctions against political speech: Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may
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