Rhetorical Outbursts

With liberals these days preferring to call themselves “progressive,” this insight is a good one to keep in mind:

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most […]

The Roberts hearings began yesterday. It started at noon and took all day just to get through the opening statements. I was puzzled by this section of Sen. Feinstein’s statement on the separation of church and state (only a part of which she had time to read aloud):

I recently traveled to Europe where […]

The discussion continues in the comments section over at www.kendallball.net. Mike Cope furthers the dialogue by kindly posting there his note to a Harding administrator:

However, I want you to know that I’m embarrassed, as an alumnus of HU and HGSR, that Ann Coulter has been invited to come. This is indefensible. My dear […]

Thanks to Gregg Kendall-Ball for the link. Welcome to readers of his blog. A quick response to his latest post. He writes:

Trying to get Ann Coulter removed because we’re angry that Jeff Walling is not invited just smacks of pettiness. To suggest that THAT is the underlying cause of our protestations about Coulter […]

Take a look at this excellent timeline, read some Portraits of Grief, and remember.

Here’s what I remember. I drove past the Pentagon around 9:35 a.m., mere minutes before Flight #77 crashed into it. I was listening to news reports on the radio about the World Trade Center in New York and had heard live reports […]

On this eve of the fourth anniversary of 9/11 it is worth re-reading, or discovering if you missed it the first time, this great article about Michael Moore’s dumb little movie. It was written in June 2004 by every conservative’s favorite leftist, Christopher Hitchens:

I recently heard Rodney Stark on the Dennis Prager show and have added his book, For the Glory of God : How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery, to my “must read” list.

It sounds fascinating. He does a lot of myth-busting (e.g. most people knew when Columbus set sail that […]

A Technorati search for Harding and Coulter reveals lots of reaction to Harding University’s decision to cancel Ann Coulter’s speech. Most of it is gleeful rantings from Ann-haters and Christophobes and anti-religious leftists of all stripes. However, I found a more thoughtful post from fellow Harding grad Jim Shelton’s blog:

I am used to […]

A quick funny from James Taranto at Best of the Web:

“What the American people have seen is this incredible disparity in which those people who had cars and money got out and those people who were impoverished died.” –Ted Kennedy on Hurricane Katrina ” ” –Mary Jo Kopechne […]

The story is reported here as well as on Mike Cope’s blog:

I would like to thank all of you who took time to respectfully express your opinions to Harding board members and/or to the Harding administration. Most of you who did so had the same reason I did: not because Ann Coulter is […]