Tornados struck my native Oklahoma last night, killing 15 people in Lone Grove, a little town of some 4000 people near Ardmore. My brother lives in Lone Grove! We couldn’t get ahold of him, making for a time of panic. But he called my parents
Tornados struck my native Oklahoma last night, killing 15 people in Lone Grove, a little town of some 4000 people near Ardmore. My brother lives in Lone Grove! We couldn’t get ahold of him, making for a time of panic. But he called my parents
Divorce, single parenting, and weak family values are not bad things, according to a UN official: A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.
We conservative pundits have been criticizing for uttering the word. Now “Newsweek” is admitting that we have moved to a European-style state-controlled economy. The title of the cover story says it all: We Are All Socialists Now.
Yesterday we had a post about an ethical movement to treat not just animals but now plants with “dignity” (with a strange indifference to treating human life with the same deference). Now I read about a movement to grant rights to machines. From Do Humanlike
Michael Cook at Salvo Magazine tells about the latest developments in the Swiss crusade for dignity: The Swiss must be counted among the most dignified people on the planet. Now their parliament has decreed that Swiss goldfish, too, must be treated with dignity. And not
The Houston Chronicle helps us get our minds around just how much money the bailout and stimulus sums are talking about: We could spend one million dollars every day since the day Jesus was born and we would still not have one trillion dollars. Do
Remember Melinda Doolittle, the “American Idol” contestant in 2007 who came in third? A lot of people who inhabit this blog were pulling for her. A former backup singer, she finally has her album. It’s entitled “Coming Back to You.”
As Australia reels from devastating brush fires–with the death toll going over 180–an Australian paper reports that Islamic terrorists are recognizing what an easy form of terrorism it would be to set fires. From Islam group urges forest fire jihad | theage.com.au: AUSTRALIA has been
Anthony Sacramone gives a good answer to those studies–like this one–that show that poor states and countries are more religious than the rich and secular ones, implying a correlation between secularism and success. He also deals with studies about how socially virtuous the arch-secularist countries
Raging brushfires in Australia have killed more than 108 people and wiped out whole towns. See this. The fires are in the state of Victoria around Melbourne. I’ve been there. Gippsland–home of the giant worms of Gippsland–and the Yarra Valley, beautiful wine country. Calling long-time
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