Senator Obama’s speech yesterday at Ebeneezer Church in Atlanta reads beautifully. In the hands of a skilled public speaker like him, it must have been moving to hear. Make no mistake, it is populism and it suggests some policies that… Continue Reading
Mike Huckabee complains that evangelicals are getting a raw deal in the GOP: “Many of us who have been Republicans out of conviction . . . the social conservatives,” he told reporters, “were welcomed in the party as long as… Continue Reading
The first mountaineer to climb the highest point on Earth died today. It’s well-known that Sir Edmund was the leader of the expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest, and that he and his Sherpa guide, and lifelong… Continue Reading
This video goes along with the extremely interesting phenomenon of Barack Obama’s insurgent campaign displacing Hillary Clinton as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for President. The context — at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, a young woman in… Continue Reading
CNN runs a program called American Morning, anchored by a handsome and steely-eyed newsreader named John Roberts. Mr. Roberts, however articulate his voice and pleasing his on-camera demeanor, is not a historian or even apparently a follower of politics. He… Continue Reading
Islam appears to me to be badly in need of a vigorous reform movement. Christianity has had several reform movements, from Martin Luther nailing a list of grievances to a church door to the Second Vatican Council. In a way,… Continue Reading
A century ago, American soldiers in the Phillipines started doing something they called the “water cure,” which today we would call “waterboarding.” President Teddy Roosevelt responded to news of this going on by sending out a telegram to the commander… Continue Reading
Let me get a few things out of the way, for the benefit of the religious advocates who occasionally comment here. First of all, your comments are welcome, whether I agree with you or not. In fact, disagreements keep things… Continue Reading
Someone was watching Fox News, so you don’t have to do it yourself. Which is good, because they caught this op-ed, which has some rather surprising content for the Murdoch Network: Judge Napolitano is right that these provisions of the… Continue Reading
On the corner of Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Main Street, in Chinatown, is a gas station. Regular unleaded sold there this morning for $3.899 a gallon. I was hungry and in a celebratory mood after my unexpected win in Federal… Continue Reading