Kosovo is set to declare its independence tomorrow. This can only end well. No, no possibility of bad feelings on anyone’s part. After all, an independent Kosovo has been the lynchpin of southeastern European stability ever since the Ottomans overran… Continue Reading
Archeological evidence of sacrifical worship of a god in Greece before Zeus. Titan-worship, perhaps?
This is brilliant. It helps if you’ve read Chaucer (as will be immediately obvious upon clicking the link).
The small city of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania has become the latest battleground in the apparently silly but ultimately consequential discussion about religion in public life in America. The whole thing started with a series of advertisements, which I first saw back… Continue Reading
Presidential primaries are not about winning votes, they’re about winning delegates to the party’s conventions. I still think, therefore, that Barack Obama won New Hampshire, not Hillary Clinton, because he got more delegates from that state than she did. Annoyingly,… Continue Reading
It’s a good thing to see stupid beer regulation laws slowly going off the books. Pennsylvania is considering getting rid of its “case laws,” which require that beer stores (which are, as I take it, different than liquor stores) only… Continue Reading
Seems that my thoughts yesterday about the potential for a U.S. court to enforce Islamic law were shared by Prof. Eugene Volokh. It was, I thought, one of my more thought-provoking finds recently. Prof. Volokh, however, has considerably more research… Continue Reading
It’s a measure of the relative economic strengths of a country as to which nation’s currency enjoys wider acceptance. This makes it very disturbing to see that stores and restaraunts in New York City have begun accepting payment in Euros.… Continue Reading
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the equivalent of the Pope for the Church of England, says that the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the United Kingdom is “inevitable.” This seems like the best we could hope for… Continue Reading
The FBI wants to collect and amalgamate a variety of biometric data on Americans – not just criminals, but all Americans and a number of non-Americans, too. Seems to me that if the biometric data is given up, either as… Continue Reading