Rhetorical Outbursts

For even more Lewis commemorations, go to Ocular Fusion and thence to Further Up and Further In.

Whew. Got it in with about a half hour to spare.

Check out the extensive discussion ocurring in the comments section on Mark Elrod’s blog. James Wiser and The Baron are searching for a definitive list of Joe McCarthy’s innocent victims, among other things.

BACKGROUND: Good Night and Good Luck, The Poor, The Communists, and Harding

Sometimes it takes someone from the outside, with no formal training or experience to demonstrate that a discipline has lost its way. Michael Yon has done that for journalism.

If you haven’t been to his website, go now. Especially if you have heard the chorus of voices calling for us to cut and run […]

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis:

Lewis died on November 22, 1963, at the Oxford home he shared with his brother, Warren. He is buried in the Headington Quarry Churchyard, Oxford, England. Media coverage of his death was overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, […]

Some professor attempts to “answer” Dennis Prager’s five questions for Muslims, but mainly just quarrels with them instead.

Terrorism is an illegitimate act of war intentionally targeting civilian non-combatants. It’s wrong when small, relatively weak collections of individuals do it, and it’s wrong when powerful nation states do it. This principle shouldn’t be controversial, but defending it has gotten me into a few arguments with some conservative friends of mine.

I used to […]

Dennis Prager plays five questions with Muslims, asking:

Why are you so quiet? Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian? Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country? Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam? Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?

Hundreds […]

Also from The Corner comes a link to this article on Phillip Pullman.

There are several posts on The Corner today about the popularity of products featuring the image of Che Guevara. What an interesting irony and sad commentary. The image of this Communist murderer is being exploited by capitalists to make money from people who, we can only pray, know nothing about the man […]

From The Problem of Evil by Peter Kreeft:

A child on the tenth story of a burning building cannot see the firefighters with their safety net on the street. They call up, “Jump! We’ll catch you. Trust us.” The child objects, “But I can’t see you.” The firefighter replies, “That’s all right. I can […]