Yesterday, the Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol proposed an intriguing replacement for Gen. McChrystal: If Gen. McChrystal does step down, there are undoubtedly many able general officers who could replace him. Here’s one unconventional suggestion, though: Ask Gen. David Petraeus to give up . . . . Continue Reading »
The city of New Haven has removed the words “in the year of our Lord” from all of its high-school diplomas this year, in a stroke that the city says will make the diplomas match all their other official public documents. School superintendent Reginald Mayo said: “I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
Just great. In Oregon, an assisted suicide clinic is going to be established. From the story:Portland psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Weisberg plans to open a house in the Sellwood neighborhood where the terminally ill can kill themselves under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Law. Weisberg told . . . . Continue Reading »
The Britain-based Islamic satellite channel “Birds of Paradise,” which is aired in Gaza, offers a musical number in which children sing the following to a bouncy Middle Eastern tune: “When we die as martyrs We will go to heaven. No, don’t say we are young, This life has . . . . Continue Reading »
Two more to add to the list : 11. Planned Parenthood’s latest ad: As my friend Jill Stanek says , “PP now specializes in aborting natural pregnancies and inseminating unnatural pregnancies - breaking up natural families and bonding unnatural families.” 12. From a news story . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my most searing experiences was moving to San Francisco in mid 1992 at the height of the AIDS catastrophe. To see so many emaciated young men walking down Market Street, on canes or supported by friends looking as if they were as old as Methuselah, was absolutely heartbreaking.It soon . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeb is clearly the smartest guy in the family Bush. He even looks different from the others. Our poor current president is tanking across the board. Of course he has to fire the disrespectful rogue general-hero, but the dissing is hurting him nonetheless. It’s not like the leaders of other . . . . Continue Reading »
“The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses,” says political scientist Dan Drezner, “ . . . poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they use to understand the world.” In his amusing essay for Foreign Policy magazine, . . . . Continue Reading »
Oldest known depictions of Andrew and John among the discovery: In what is thought to be the tomb of a Roman noblewoman in the Catacombs of St. Tecla, the oldest known images of the Apostles Andrew and John have been discovered. The find was presented today a a press conference led by the president . . . . Continue Reading »
At Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, the inaugural meeting of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is taking place this week. This organization brings together two predecessor ecumenical organizations, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) and the Reformed Ecumenical . . . . Continue Reading »
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