An exchange between CNN’s Campbell Brown and White House spokesperson Valerie Jarrett: Brown: So do you think FOX News is biased? Jarrett: Well, of course they're biased. Of course they are. Brown: OK. Then do you also think that MSNBC is biased? Jarrett: Well, you
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about scholarship on the difference between reading from a page and reading from a screen (termed “screading”). [Anne] Mangen notes the growing sub-field of screen reading studies, but finds that the "intangibility and volatility of the digital
In taking a look at my trackbacks, I came across the blog of Cameron Buettel, an Australian living in Denmark. He wrote a post entitled Why America Is So Great!. After conceding to his anti-American friends and countrymen some of the problems of America and
In our previous baseball playoff prophecy contest, the winners were Pete and Sam, both of whom predicted that the Yankees and the Phillies would play each other in the World Series. Both also predicted Yankee victories, so if the Phillies take it, we will have
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 I prefer to think that it was some automatic spammer that detected a vulnerability in some outdated software rather than some individual person acting out of malice or antagonism.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
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