Archive for August, 2005

Hotel Rwanda: Blame America First

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

I’ve been wanting to respond to this Brian McLaren piece since I first saw it via Mike Cope’s blog several months ago, but I hadn’t started my own blog then. Anyway, McLaren writes:

Maybe it’s because (some readers may be tempted to write me off after reading this sentence) I was so frustrated by […]

Is Amputation “Cruel and Unusual” Punishment?

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Here’s an accurate headline from a few weeks ago, “Supreme Court Bars Executing Mentally Retarded” Exactly — the Court did it, not the Constitution. The Court decided to substitute its judgement for that of the duly elected legislatures of 20 states and the jurors in every death penalty case where the defendant’s lawyer can show […]

Time for Recess

Monday, August 1st, 2005

President Clinton did it so that James Hormel could be ambassador to Luxembourg. Now President Bush has done it so that John Bolton can be ambassador to the United Nations. It’s always funny to watch people in Washington on occasions like this. The same people who criticized Clinton’s use of the recess appointment for […]

The Lion, The Witch, and The General Lee

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Well, maybe Hollywood is learning its lesson from The Passion. Disney is putting out the first installment in what will hopefully be a wildly successful and complete film version of the classic C.S. Lewis series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Here’s the website, complete with an amazing teaser trailer. Previous screen adaptations have been basically awful, […]

Tivo for Internet Radio

Monday, August 1st, 2005

If you like talk radio, have an iPod, and haven’t yet tried it, check out Radio Time. You can easily fill your digital music player with hours and hours of Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity. Then listen when you feel like it. It’s not free, but it is reasonably priced and […]