Recently the staff of an elected official defended DOMA by citing Catalano v. Catalano, a marriage in Italy between an uncle and niece, and Wilkins…
Yesterday, a right-wing veteran and white supremacist who hated President Obama, pushed the conspiracy theory that his birth certificate was forged, criticized the media for…
Two acts of terror were committed. Two people were murdered in separate assassinations. One has been the subject of non-stop media coverage and blame assigning.…
The articles in this series are: Bored With Church Part I: Are you really a Christian? Bored With Church Part II: Is your church teaching…
Perhaps conservatives have gone too far already in their criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Here is what Newt Gingrich said about her: I…
Two stories that broke today set the Twitterworld afire. Each of them taken individually was sufficient enough to dampen the brightness of even Hollywood's plastic…
Last night 24 ended season 7 begging the question – do the ends justify the means? Jack Bauer's edged closer to death not regretting any…
One accusation that both conservatives and liberals make against one another is that their opponents' hierarchy of values is out of order, if not outright…
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)
Andrew Norman Wilson (b1950), is an English teacher and award winning writer. His biography of Tolstoy won the Whitbread Award(now the Costa Book Awards) for…
Wintery Knight Blog has an exclusive 11 page transcript of the official testimony of William Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics at Princeton…
I came across this while reading today (yes, it was pleasure reading ;): It is this same basic question of historicity, moreover, that sharply distinguishes…
I wish I had taken off of work to attend a TEA Party protest yesterday (TEA = Taxed Enough Already), but I'm glad so many…
Ross Douthat, of The Atlantic and soon to be of The New York Times, discusses the charge of hypocrisy at pro-lifers in the ESCR debate.
As a conservative with federalist tendencies, I tend to appreciate and applaud the sentiment of those engaging in “tea parties,” especially on yesterday on “tax…
The Center for Science and Culture, the primary Intelligent Design think tank, has published a fantastic article cataloging the latest chaos of the phyolgenetic trees,…
Fresh from the news: Penn Jilette (comedian, magician, commentator) – "Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart. ….Obama tells us that we can spend our…
Over at HonestUncertainity, there is a challenge of sorts to demonstrate why you believe (or do not believe) in the literal resurrection of Jesus. (Perhaps,…
Like it or not, think it's pejorative or not, the current logic people are using to justify and legalize gay relationships applies equally to other…
HT: Psychoteddy