I want to apologize to the Oklahoma Sooner basketball team, to my fellow alumni, the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Oklahoma, and to the citizens of the state of Oklahoma. As I have complained before, when I watch a basketball game, my
I’m enjoying playing with the bells and whistles we’ve added to this blog. One annoyance, though, as some of you have also complained, is that when you click “comment,” the IntenseDebate software throws you all the way to the bottom of the comments, letting you
Turning its attention away from trivial issues such as the economy, bailouts, overseas contingencies, and fundamental shifts in American principles, the Senate is finally addressing something of national concern: Who gets to be #1 in college football. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust will be
More from Charles Murray, who cites “journalistic and scholarly accounts of a spreading European mentality that goes something like this”: Human beings are a collection of chemicals that activate and, after a period of time, deactivate. The purpose of life is to while away the
Not all investors are losing money in the current financial collapse. Certain hedge funds managers have made huge profits by betting against the market. The biggest winner, according to a British newspaper, is George Soros, the sugardaddy of the Democratic party’s leftwing. From ‘I’m having
The Farrelly brothers are set to remake The Three Stooges, casting Sean Penn as Larry, Jim Carrey as Curly, and Benicio Del Toro as Moe. Stooges, yes, but why remake perfection? Why remake any classic films, since they are all available now in their original
So America is abandoning its traditional principles of limited government and free enterprise economics in favor of the European ideology of Social Democracy, with its welfare state and semi-socialism. But is that so bad? European countries, for the most part, are pleasant places with an
The Global War on Terror is over! The term, that is. The Obama administration is replacing that all-too-specific language for something that sounds better. From ‘Global War On Terror’ Is Given New Name – washingtonpost.com: The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the
Harvard economist Martin Feldstein cites research showing that when the cost of giving goes up, donors reduce their giving by the same amount. He concludes that the Obama administration’s plan to limit the deductibility of charitable gifts from 35% to 28% for couples making over
Today is the holy-day set aside to commemorate when the Second Person of the Trinity was conceived by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary. Go here for some fine celebratory material, including YouTubes of Bach performances in which the composer pours out his creativity
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