Newsweek has a sobering article about websites that support young women with anorexia, to the point of encouraging it: A Web page labeled “Ana Boot Camp” recently offered its members a seemingly irresistible proposition: a 30-day regimen designed to help them drop some serious pounds,
Michael Gerson is impressed with Obama’s centrist appointments, seeing in them signs of true statesmanship. He then says that they also reveal some things about the current president: Obama’s appointments reveal something important about current Bush policies. Though Obama’s campaign savaged the administration as incompetent
From Anne Rice goes from vampires to Jesus biographer: “Her memoir, ‘Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession,’ is the latest piece of evidence that Rice is reinventing herself in an attempt to build a reputation as a serious Christian writer.” I read her first
Read Iowahawk’s reconstruction of the letters that now Treasury Secretary Paulson must have written home when he was a kid at summer camp. Here, it is alleged, he learned his method of saving our economy. Also, read P.J. O’Rourke pleading for a bailout of print
A new study reveals the extent to which high school students are lying, stealing, and cheating. Overall, 30 percent of students admitted to stealing from a store within the past year, a two percent rise from 2006. More than one third of boys (35 percent)
Some Roman Catholic bishops are saying that if Barack Obama signs the Freedom of Choice Act, which could force even religiously-affiliated hospitals to commit abortion, they would shut down all Catholic hospitals. That’s one-third of the hospitals in America. That would have a huge negative
The left wing of the Democratic party is frustrated that Barack Obama, judging from his appointments and announcements, is not handing them a bunch of victories. Obama seems to be going slow in withdrawing from Iraq, making corporate free market types his economics advisors, and
Here is a bailout we could all get behind. In the words of Jonah Goldberg: But rather than blow money on a lavish reenactment of the New Deal, or continue bailing out undeserving corporations, why not really think outside the box? Rep. Louie Gohmert (R.,
Do you have any oak trees in your yard? Go out and look on the ground. (We’ll wait.) Did you see any acorns? “The Washington Post” reports that there aren’t any. Not in the D.C. area, but also not in Pennsylvania or New England. (They
Now it is Advent and a new church year. This article reports that more and more Christians, including those from non-liturgical, non-church-year-observing churches, are observing Advent. Good for them. Far better than counting down the shopping days until Christmas is studying the prophecies of Christ
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