The Broken Compass
Somehow, one doubts that either the USCCB or Hollywood studios would have taken such a benign view of a film whose villainous organization were named "The Synagogue," whose villains wore rabbinical rather than clerical ...
Somehow, one doubts that either the USCCB or Hollywood studios would have taken such a benign view of a film whose villainous organization were named "The Synagogue," whose villains wore rabbinical rather than clerical ...
Did Mike Huckabee know what he was doing when he asked an interviewer, “Don"t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” If not, then perhaps the Huckster was right when he claimed earlier ...
Muslims believe that Allah's hand is unfettered"he can do anything. The Qur"an explicitly refutes the Judeo-Christian view of God as a God of reason when it says: "The Jews say: Allah's hand is fettered. Their ...
For most sensible people, the latest National Intelligence Estimate contained a great deal of good news. Iran seems to have shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003 due to international pressure and hasn’t restarted ...
I’m watching Tim Russert rip Rudy apart on “Meet the Press”: during the course of an exchange over why Hizzoner’s then-girlfriend was getting police protection before anyone knew she was his ...
For about the last 150 years, American parents have infantilized teenagers by refusing to let them make decisions. As is usual when society turns in the wrong direction, it wasn"t average Americans who created the problem. ...
I just returned from a Ron Paul for President rally at the University of California at Berkeley, and I have to tell you that it was quite an experience. Here we were in Sproul Plaza, the historic epicenter of campus protest, ...
On Wednesday, November 28, Derrick Shareef pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Chicago on federal charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. I’ve discussed the Shareef case before on this website, ...
One legend of St. Nicholas tells that three young boys had been killed by a local maniac in Myra, and their bodies preserved in a pickle barrel. The bishop opened the barrel, discovered the corpses, and promptly raised them ...
Everybody is going through the motions again as part of the ongoing charade known as the Middle East “peace process”, now in its latest incarnation at the Annapolis conference. At this stage, what it all boils down ...
Most pro-choicers agree that it's wrong to kill infants. But they have no objective basis for thinking so. The arguments in favor of abortion are unable to stave off the conclusion that infanticide, too, is morally ...
The Real Rudy In his New York Times column (November 23, 2007), "conservative" commentator David Brooks complains that his favorite political figure has gone over to the dark forces of the "anti-immigrant ...
In the 1930s even some of the older and more intellectual Russians, including those who had seen a bit of the world in their youth, believed that the United States was the land of the Yellow Devil, meaning gold. It was said ...
As we watch Gordon Brown prepare to follow Tony Blair's path into the sands of Levantine catastrophe, I am led to reflect on Blair's lasting legacy for Britain. To be sure, there is much rich material to choose from. Memories ...