The Washington Post on Sunday had a front page, color-photograph, two-full-pages-in-section-A feature about the financial hardships of a woman struggling to live through the recession on only $300,000 a year. I’m sure people read the story with both indignation and schadenfreude. I am not without
That’s what they called Les Paul in Wisconsin, the man who invented the solid body electric guitar and multi-track recording. He died august 13 at 94. The man who made rock ‘n’ roll and much of today’s popular music possible could also play. Here he
. . .even though the book it is publishing is about the cartoons! The author had wanted them in her book, but a panel of 24 consultants told the academic publisher not to print the cartoons, nor the other illustrations of the prophet that are
Congress is listening to at least some of its constituents’ concerns. Senate Bill Will Not Address End-of-Life Care: The Senate Finance Committee’s health care plan will not include provisions dealing with end-of-life care, now one of the more controversial topics in the health care debate,
Some people are maintaining that they have found the “real” Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia. And the discovery is accompanied with evidence of Biblical history, including the possibility of actual artifacts of miracles described in Exodus. This is from a secular blogsite. I’ll intersperse some
What is the best kind of conservatism? Crunchy-conservatism (the natural order, tradition, Wendell Berry, community, rural, decentralization, eating locally, small businesses, small-is-beautiful)? Or free market conservatism (technology, progress, Adam Smith, the individual, urban, centralization, eating globally, big corporations, big-is-better)? I devised an experiment to answer
What was missing in virtually all of the media tributes on the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver is that she was a pro-life activist. LifeNews gives the rest of the story: Although other members of the Kennedy family abandoned their pro-life beliefs as their political
JetBlue Airways is offering an all you can fly pass that is good for a month and costs $599: JetBlue Airways will offer an “all-you-can-jet” pass for $599 in which passengers can book an unlimited amount of flights within a one-month span, the airline said
I thought I would pass along a notice from my colleague at Patrick Henry College, John Warwick Montgomery: I would appreciate your spreading the word that the new edition of my Tractatus (published this month by the Verlag fuer Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn, Germany, and
A study of people in Roman Catholic religious orders has found that the younger priests and nuns are more conservative than the older ones. From New Nuns and Priests Seen Opting for Tradition – NYTimes.com: A new study of Roman Catholic nuns and priests in
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