Traveling with a baby can be tough. Bring plenty of things to occupy your little darling’s attention. Be prepared to endure the scorn of others if your child cries, and store up some mental fortitude for the descent, when little ears are wont to pop. One thing you should not do? Stuff your baby in your carry-on luggage and try to pass it through the x-ray machine. Read more
Hugh Hewitt is not only a nationally syndicated radio host with Salem; he’s also a brilliant law professor and practicing attorney, an accomplished author, and a true leader in the conservative movement. He’s been a good friend to me, and we spent 30 minutes on his show discussing my book on the faith and athletic life of Jeremy Lin — and then I spent most of last week with him at a conference held by the Alliance Defense Fund, where... Read more
HEAVEN (AP) – After millennia of research and arguably the most expensive scientific experiment of all time involving thousands of angels and celestial beings, God announced this morning that he believes he has discovered the elusive “Physicist Particle,” the final human particle to be discovered according to the Standard Model of human creation. While other human types have already been created and sent to populate the earth, the Physicist Particle proved the most difficult of all human particles to produce. Trillions... Read more
In “All the President’s Privileges,” Ross Douthat considers the way in which Senator Obama was one of the loudest critics of the Bush administration’s expansive view of executive power, yet President Obama has, if anything, expanded executive power even further: The majority of Democrats, polls suggest, have followed roughly the same path as the former Yale Law School dean Harold Koh, a staunch critic of Bush’s wartime policies who now serves as a legal adviser to the State Department, supplying constitutional... Read more
My friend and fellow Patheos blogger David French had some good words for July 4th — or July 5th, for that matter: Give thanks. Give thanks for God’s unmerited grace. Give thanks for the sacrifice and character of generations before you. Give thanks for the gift of a nation so prosperous that even our poor citizens have more and live better than billions of the truly poor around the globe. A friend who has labored for years to confront the... Read more
[UPDATE: Welcome readers of Hugh Hewitt and Instapundit! If you enjoy this post, please subscribe in the box in the sidebar or follow me on Facebook or Twitter.] Kurt Andersen’s piece in the New York Times today is in some respects a terrific column. But if you can spot the vast logical leap. Andersen recalls a time when he was confronted with the question, “Why had the revolution dreamed up in the late 1960s mostly been won on the social and... Read more
NOTE: The following is a guest post from my sainted father, Galen C. Dalrymple, Director of Operations for iam2.org, an organization devoted to crowd-sourcing compassion and empowering ministries serving the neediest children in the world. Recently the filmmakers of Not Today, along with my friends at Lovell-Fairchild, invited me to India to learn more about the film. I told them my father would be a much better choice, since he is an extraordinary man of God with a passion for... Read more
My fellow Patheos blogger and Catholic pontificator extraordinaire Elizabeth Scalia writes a lovely post on the tactics of offense. Speaking of the response to the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, she writes: Amid all the predictability, though, nothing bores me more than the phrase “that offends me,” uttered by a person who decides to define himself (or herself) according to some aspect of that self — as a fat person, a thin person, a vegetarian person, a... Read more
I hesitate to admit that I’ve put some thought into this question. This is not due to vanity — although, as you’ll see, I’m certainly not free of that unattractive quality — but due to my interest in mortifying the desires of the flesh and imitating Christ. Though my wife and friends might be surprised to hear it, I’ve actually given a lot of thought to what I ought to wear. I first gave it serious reflection when, as a... Read more
Just a quick news flash: some of you may have been following Bronx Household of Faith V. Board of Education of the City of New York, which challenges the ability of New York City to ban churches from meeting in schools and public buildings. The good news, which just reached us here at the Alliance Defense Fund conference in Naples, Florida, is that the district court judge has just issued a permanent injunction against the city, which will allow churches... Read more
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