After two days of driving Griswold-style across Virginia and Tennessee with both kids and the dog, we are now in Memphis with family. Then tomorrow it’s on to Arkansas for a week, then back to Memphis for the first week of the New Year. This is our family tradition, our annual there […]
Via Michelle Malkin, John Schmidt, Associate Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, writes today in defense of the Bush administration’s warrantless NSA intercepts of terrorist communications:
In the Supreme Court’s 1972 Keith decision holding that the president does not have inherent authority to order wiretapping without warrants to combat domestic threats, the court said […]
If you’re one of those getting your knickers in a twist over the fact that President Bush authorized the NSA to “spy on American citizens,” then I beg you to take a deep breath and read this article by James Robbins very carefully. And that goes double for anyone who was also throwing around […]
A fellow here in the D.C. area has used Christmas lights to decorate his house with, “two pentagrams, a six-six-six and an upside down cross” calling it a “zany response to annual Christmas mania.” And here’s the shocker: “He hasn’t got any complaints - yet.”
Gerald Schroeder appeared for two fascinating hours on the Dennis Prager Show a few days ago (I’m always a bit late blogging about radio stuff because I time-shift most of my listening with RadioTime).
Schroeder is a nuclear physicist, formerly a professor at MIT, now living in Israel. He reconciles modern scientific understanding with […]
Seriously. Have we lost all capacity for simple distinctions and rational thought? Is this a good faith misunderstanding or are some people so anxious to believe that the U.S. is responsible for all the evil in the world that they just hear what they want to hear?
RELATED: Christopher Hitchens will be debating another […]
I’ve taken a day off of work today. The federal government is opening two hours late due to the snow.
We’re going with the kids and a group from our homeschool co-op to see the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I’ll report back later with reactions to the film.
Discussion of Harding University’s efforts at citizenship education continues here.
BACKGROUND: Harding University Films
It’s Pearl Harbor Day. On occasions such as this, go directly to Ocular Fusion, if you haven’t already.
Two controversies over Wikipedia entries (”Wikiversies”) have prompted new editorial policies from the online, massively multi-authored, free encyclopedia.
John Seigenthaler, Sr. wrote an editorial in USA Today to complain that some nitwit had suggested on his Wikipedia entry that he might have been involved in the Kennedy assassination.
The other Wikiversy involves Podcaster Adam Curry […]
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