Rest Across the River: No one notices the religious left in American politics because it's primarily a political movement, and...
I'm quite tired of well-meaning Christians trying to sound non-partisan by talking about "economic justice", a term which usually crops...
MRC sums up what I've been saying, offine for a long time: Good Economic Numbers = Bad News? … When...
Kerry opens a new line of attack in Rochester, Minnesota, and
Random Observations is granted an exclusive interview with campaign spokewoman Stephanie Cutter.
Republicans are trying to disenfranchise minorities in the Badger State again! Or perhaps I'm being ironic...
Honestly. I try to see the world from "the other" point of view. But sometimes my curiosity, and ability to...
Was just browsing the Amazon customer reviews on Dick Morris's Because He Could -- Morris's answer to Clinton's My Life,...
Lately I've had the pleasure of wandering around left-leaning blogs of principle. It's refreshing to find them -- I had...
Mark Steyn talks about drug reimportant. Jon Henke has a light bulb moment. I kibbitz from the sidelines.
The New York Times: To Bush-bashers, it may be the most infuriating revelation yet from the military records of the...
Steve complains people say crazy things about the flu vaccine. For the most part, I agree with him. Until we...
We lost power today for a few minutes. I haven't checked to how the microwave oven and VCR weathered this...
The BBC, a few weeks ago: US light crude settled at a record closing price of $51.09 on Tuesday, up...
Congratulations, my fellow Americans.
You are again making me deeply ashamed of our cluelessness. First, for feeling the need to blame someone for every ill in the world. And second, for being to lazy to try to figure out who to blame.
Oil causes many problems in the world, and increasing oil taxes is a necessary step towards solving these problems. Or is it?
Was there a leader like Jesse Jackson during the American Revolution? Was there an equivalent of Ted Kennedy in ancient Rome? Is there an equivalent to the Marxist revolutionary among primitive peoples?
And this is unusual how? Student Kacie Spears said professor Louis Houston lost control right after class began Wednesday morning...
Oh no! The gap between rich and poor is widening! Gather the villagers! Grab your pitchforks! Light the torches!
Over the past year, I've had a lot of time to think about Quixtar. And due to the tremendous response I've seen on this blog, I've had a lot of time consider both sides. And I think I might have been too hasty...
Are we evolving, morally? Is the banning of slavery an example of such moral evolution? And is the bible one of the main things which has held us back from this moral evolution?
Once upon a time the media laughed at Ronald Reagan's ideas about how stimulate the economy. They mischaracterized his plan as "trickle down economics". Nobody's laughing any more...
A reader posts a link to a very interesting article on the media, guns, and crime; an article good enough to pass along to the rest of you...
Science Daily: Giant deer first appeared about 400,000 years and roamed much of the Eurasian continent alongside the woolly mammoth....
Kerry argues you can't "impose" a democracy on people. The question is open as to whether it can or will work in predominantly Muslim countries, or at least Iraq in specific. But Kerry's statement is at odds with reality.
Bruce Bartlett: An Oct. 3 report in the Boston Globe recounts many of the ways in which the old Imperial...
Who mislead us about Bush's alleged timber company? Bush? Kerry? Or, perhaps, was it FactCheck.org itself? I find something fishy about their reasoning.
From Kabul: Ahead of the poll, security had been the overriding worry for election organizers fearing attacks by Islamic fundamentalist...
Via Dr. John Ray's "Of Interest" blog: Chase's take on the Unabomber is that he is the social product of...
Was able to catch last night's debate. In my opinion, Bush looked good: confident, tough. The grimacing didn't really work...
Or, more reasons to question the value of the NEArts... You've built a new library. You want to install a...
A friend forwards a template Amnesty International letter about Haitian refugees to George Bush. I take the time to write back to my friend and address some of the core arguments of the letter.
Brilliant: Kerra Fowler is a mother of four who decided to wear her opposition to President George W. Bush on...
Things seem to have gone nuts in the last several days: As you probably know, USA Today reported yesterday that...
And I wouldn't be suprised if this is being done for political reasons. Nonetheless, it looks like an article at...
Why do they hate us? Why do they hate us? Linda Heard demonstrates precisely why they hate us. Clip and save this for the next time a left-leaning friend of yours brings up the topic.
Only applies to conservatives... Some black pastors say the Bush campaign's appeals have made them more determined than ever to...
I've just finish reading (pronounced "wasting time looking at") a rather lengthy (and often tragicly funny), um, web site (if...
Via Instapundt: Now that the Bush administration is stepping up the pressure regarding the situation in Darfur, Sudan, the crisis...
According to the guys at
INDC Journal, it's looking like John Kerry might have cheated in the debates. Ask me if I'm shocked. Actually I am. I guess I'm just not
surprised.
Mark Steyn: How many John Kerrys does it take to change a lightbulb? At least four. One to approve the...
Sometimes you can tell a lot from the little things: Random Observations about the first presidential debate, Kerry and his crew, and their actions and reactions in a telling news article...