2009-11-12T05:45:55-05:00

tODD and I got this going in the comment thread on my post about last Sunday, and I can’t resist opening it up to the rest of you. I said I liked the name Walla Walla, in Washington. He came back with other towns in

2009-11-12T05:39:11-05:00

So Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, M.D., who killed 13 human beings at Ft. Hood, carried on e-mail correspondence with radical jihadists, posted praise of suicide bombers and other radical Islamist sentiments on websites, gave lectures at Walter Reed on how Muslim soldiers should not fight

2009-11-12T05:38:31-05:00

Kathleen Parker has a terrific column on forced abortions in China: Coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing's protestations notwithstanding. While the Chinese Communist Party insists that abortions are voluntary under the nation's one-child policy, electronic documentation recently smuggled out

2009-11-11T06:00:07-05:00

Today is Veterans Day. Why today? Because the fighting in World War I ended, according to the terms of the armistice of 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I salute all of you veterans today. Specifically, I would

2009-11-11T05:58:46-05:00

I came across this recently, a Letter from James Madison to F.L. Schaeffer, dated 1821, in which the Father of the Constitution and the author of the Bill of Rights credits Luther with his doctrine of the Two Kingdoms for the American handling of church

2009-11-11T05:28:52-05:00

Two long-time foreign policy experts, Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal, critique the Obama administration’s policy towards Russia and China: The Obama administration's worldview is still emerging, but its policies toward Russia and China are already revealing. Its Russia policy consists of trying to accommodate Moscow's

2009-11-10T06:00:31-05:00

With reference to yesterday’s post, here is what I think it all means: (1) Even small town America, without thinking about it or meaning to, is turning away from Christianity. (2) I need to remember to bring nature into my theologizing. (The Bible says that

2009-11-10T05:49:55-05:00

Some liberal Democrats would rather not have a health care bill than have one that restricts abortion. From Some Democrats to fight abortion amendment in health bill – washingtonpost.com: President Obama and Senate Democrats sought on Sunday to generate momentum from the House's passage of

2009-11-10T05:11:15-05:00

Rupert Murdoch is considering yanking his many news operations–which include Fox News–from being accessed by Google: Mr. Murdoch said that consumers shouldn’t have had free access to information online that they paid for in other formats. “I think we’ve been asleep,” he said. “It costs

2009-11-10T05:01:35-05:00

Angela Merkel won a big victory in Germany, with her conservative coalition trouncing the socialists and other leftist parties, strengthening her hand as Chancellor. Anne Applebaum comments: Merkel's achievement is far greater than it seems. She is a soft-spoken, even-tempered and, frankly, dull pragmatist who

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