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July 2012

July 31, 2012
In summary, the American men, who had the highest score in the qualifying rounds, and...
July 30, 2012
The Olympic Games continue, with the men's team finals in the Olympic gymnastics competition.  The...
July 30, 2012
There is no event in gymnastics more difficult than the pommel horse.  It's the safest...
July 30, 2012
China takes a huge lead into the final event, and the pommel horse historically has...
July 30, 2012
NBC mysteriously and without comment skips past the rings for the American men. They return...
July 30, 2012
With the American men all but eliminated from contention, I'm rooting for Great Britain.  The...
July 30, 2012
In the team finals, each country fields three gymnasts, and every score counts.  There is...
July 30, 2012
Fantastic opening routine from Danell Leyva.  He opened with one of the toughest skills that...
July 30, 2012
The men's team final is finally being broadcast.  Looks like the American men are starting...
July 30, 2012
As we all know, NBC Olympics made the understandable if slightly irritating decision to broadcast...
July 30, 2012
Jordyn Wieber Was Not Robbed -- She Was Outperformed by Aly Raisman I argued the opposite...
July 30, 2012
Jordyn Wieber was Robbed! Such were the cries of outrage after yesterday's women's gymnastics qualifying...
July 30, 2012
Maybe individuals can be "good without God" -- but can entire societies? This is one...
July 27, 2012
What if freedom is its own worst enemy, and Americans' abuse of their freedoms will...
July 26, 2012
Note: This is a guest post from Jennifer A. Marshall, director of the DeVos Center for...
July 26, 2012
Daniel Siedell observes in "Art and Culture: Or, Politics by Another Means -- Evangelical Style":...
July 26, 2012
NOTE: The following is a guest post from my sainted father, Galen C. Dalrymple, director...
July 25, 2012
You did -- with all apologies to the President (I kid) -- build it.  You...
July 25, 2012
Apparently they thought it was Taco Bell: More than 200 Chihuahuas have been removed from what...
July 20, 2012
You've probably heard by now of the mass murder at a Colorado cinema showing "The...
July 19, 2012
I just wrote on the controversy-du-jour regarding the role of "authority" and male headship in...
July 19, 2012
Accusations of Endorsing Sexual Aggression I had recently arrived for a trimester at Oxford when...
July 14, 2012
My friend and colleague David French asks whether Protestants should "hit the panic button" when...
July 13, 2012
Would Joe Paterno and the Penn State leadership have done more to protect Jerry Sandusky's...
July 13, 2012
She was 16 years old, working as an operator in a tiny, public call office...
July 12, 2012
"I'm Having a Daughter" So you learned the baby you helped to conceive is a...
July 11, 2012
Traveling with a baby can be tough.  Bring plenty of things to occupy your little...
July 06, 2012
Hugh Hewitt is not only a nationally syndicated radio host with Salem; he's also a...
July 05, 2012
HEAVEN (AP) - After millennia of research and arguably the most expensive scientific experiment of all...
July 05, 2012
In "All the President's Privileges," Ross Douthat considers the way in which Senator Obama was...
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