Rhetorical Outbursts

The Bison carries another letter-to-the editor (hat tip to Fishkite), from another Harding University student about the Ann Coulter fracas. Anti-Ann student Robin Crocker writes:

But let’s ask ourselves this question: Is it worse to disenfranchise a well-published Republican journalist whose life and career will carry on normally whether she speaks at […]

As John Fund describes it today in the Wall Street Journal, the Harriet Miers nomination looks like a classic illustration of the problems with groupthink.

James Surowiecki describes how and why small, homogeneous groups like the President and his closest advisers can make bad decisions when they lack “cognitive diversity,” presume consensus, rely too heavily on […]

God, guts, and guns made this country great. Ben Affleck has now come out for two of the three. He recently defended people of faith against the Christophobic rantings of Bill Maher. Then he went on to defend concealed carry laws. Smart move if he’s really thinking of running for […]

How’s that for a post title? Okay, there is a serious point here. These two subjects have something in common that points to a problem at the heart of the pacifist theology of Lee C. Camp.

A student in one of his classes at Lipscomb forwarded an article by Camp entitled “The Non-violent Reign […]

We spent Saturday in Jamestown, Sunday in Williamsburg, and Monday in Yorktown. Here’s some of what we learned.

At the “Audience with George Washington” some of the visitors asked about his attitude toward slavery. “General Washington” replied that he believed that any manumission of slaves must be gradual, that he tried as much as […]

There’s an extensive discussion on this topic taking place on our preacher’s blog, some of which got a bit rowdy. A tiny minority of comments began to lack a certain quality of mutual submission and loving respect for one another. Nevertheless, I thought the vast majority of the discussion was fruitful. […]

The President gave a long overdue and very important speech yesterday:

The images and experience of September the 11th are unique for Americans. Yet the evil of that morning has reappeared on other days, in other places — in Mombasa, and Casablanca, and Riyadh, and Jakarta, and Istanbul, and Madrid, and Beslan, and Taba, […]

Leftists and anti-war types love to claim that Saddam Hussein had “nothing to do” with 9/11. This “fact” is often shouted with great emotion and usually accompanied by some expression of frustration at how stupid the majority of Americans were for supporting the war in Iraq. If we hadn’t been so ignorant and […]

My reaction to the Miers nomination appears to be progressing through the five stages of grief. First, there was denial quickly followed by anger. Has Bush lost his mind? Is he really back on the sauce? She was the Staff Secretary. She served on the city counsel and […]

In the spirit of Jonah Goldberg’s quote about cliches starting arguments rather than finishing them, let’s address this deism nonsense. The Founders were, generally speaking, not deists. Here is the evidence from Gregory Koukl:

The phrase “Founding Fathers” is a proper noun. It refers to a specific group of men, the 55 […]