As I have been reading blogs lately I have been nearly overwhelmed with all the reports of cancer. Matt was kind enough to post an update on my own condition a few days ago, and I can think of at least 5 other bloggers and leaders I have become aware of in the last couple of weeks who . . . . Continue Reading »
You would think that since God had Moses include “You shall not steal” at least three times in the Pentateuch (Exod. 20:15; Deut. 5:19, Lev. 19:11) we’d be perfectly clear on that whole not stealing thing. But Anglican priest Fr. Tim Jones clarifies for us that what God really . . . . Continue Reading »
I haven’t heard a single Jewish voice defending Pope Benedict XVI’s decision Dec. 19 to declare that Pius XII lived “a life of heroic virtue.” The Jewish organizations all object; the State of Israel said that the question of Pius XII’s prospective sainthood “does . . . . Continue Reading »
The picture at the right is of Secondhand Smoke—at least if one listens to Rhode Island Senator Whitehouse. He claims opponents of Obamacare are nothing but a bunch of racists and right wing fanatics who wish President Obama didn’t even exist. From the story quoting the . . . . Continue Reading »
I just knew the global warming that hysterics wouldn’t learn humility from their recent debacle. Unable to impose their will in Copenhagen, some of the more hysterical warmers apparently now want to junk the UN approach and impose their will on the world by a supposed . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Being too lazy or full of Christmas reverie to think up my own post, I’ll just say something about the interesting recent comments of our own James Poulos. 2. It’s now clear that I’ll have to see AVATAR, just to be against it in an informed way. My original strategy was to skip . . . . Continue Reading »
There’ll be nowhere to run from the new world government”There’ll be no place to hide.” It will come like “A Thief in the . . . . Continue Reading »
From David Aaronovitch’s column about conspiracy theories in the Wall Street Journal : These cyber-driven days, each new U.S. president has attracted theories of his own, assiduously spread mostly by partisans of the other side. So the saturnine Bill Clinton murdered Vince Foster and a whole . . . . Continue Reading »
Almost every day I read something that serves as a reminder that my understanding of the world is sorely limited. But this is the first time such an epiphany came in a sentence about cocaine and opossums : Cocaine’s a hell of a drug, and even more so when laced with another drug that’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Want to glimpse a exhibit of futurism worthy of Epcot Center? Take a trip to your local supermarket : We are living in the future and we find it boring. The best place to gather evidence for this claim is the supermarket. To begin with, try and have a fresh look at the word: Supermarket , it is . . . . Continue Reading »
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