A collection of odd economic indicators from the BBC and the L.A. Times :The crane index. How many cranes are visible from a given point. Really a measure of optimism about the prospects for commercial property. • The number of people signing up to dating agencies offering extra-marital . . . . Continue Reading »
Ivan Kenneally, an assistant professor political science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and blogger at Postmodern Conservative , reviews Remi Brague’s The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea for Modern Age : In The Law of God, Brague never specifically mentions American . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember when everyone was saying that the Cash for Clunkers program was merely siphoning off demand from future months? Turns out that’s exactly what’s happening : Edmunds.com reports that “September’s light-vehicle sales rate will fall to 8.8 million units . . . the lowest . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Pipes, the brilliant and tenacious analyst of Middle East strategy, has just published an important essay, “Peace Process or War Process?” In good Clausewitzian terms, Pipes argues that peace will come to the Middle East only through victory. The Palestinians first must feel . . . . Continue Reading »
Like so many people, I would not be where I am today without Irving Kristol. When people called him the “Godfather of neoconservatism,” they meant the term affectionately. Irving touched the lives of more people in his position as talent-spotter-in-chief and dispenser of seed money . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ll return to our regularly-scheduled examination of the material culture of religion following this random current-events roundup: British Couple Charged in Religious Discussion. “Is God Dead?” Author Indisputably Dead Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Christian ChurchPrayer . . . . Continue Reading »
On September 9, I was asked to appear on a web-cast for the Family Research Council about Obamacare. (I would also appear at a NOW web-cast, if asked.) It was a pretty good interview, if I don’t say so myself, with interlocutor Tony Perkins. Here it is for your approval or . . . . Continue Reading »
The defenses of the NHS are growing so untenable. In the latest horror story, one in six patients receive misdiagnoses. From the story:As many as one in six patients treated in NHS hospitals and GPs’ surgeries is being misdiagnosed, experts have warned. Doctors were making mistakes . . . . Continue Reading »
A UK woman was implanted with the wrong embryo and will have to give birth to another woman’s child. From the storyA pregnant mother will have to give birth to another couple’s baby after a blunder by an IVF clinic. Carolyn Savage had the wrong embryos implanted into her and will have to . . . . Continue Reading »
Uh . . . how about “Default is all mine?” As in, I’ve spent the last three-and-a-half hours writing a religious-news roundup post with umpteen gazillion links — and I’ve somehow managed to lose the whole thing. Totally. Completely. Poof. Into thin air. The computer has . . . . Continue Reading »
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