Rhetorical Outbursts

Dear Jesus,

I don’t know much about you. My neighbors, my children, and I are starving and oppressed. I’ve heard rumors about other places like America where there is freedom and plenty, but we are not allowed to leave. We can only whisper of such things here.

Then one of your followers told me […]

JRB’s most recent post on Pax Fellaship reminds me of a sad local story about religious division and accusations of racism. Buried deep in the story is a hint that political differences may be part of the mix as well. Apparently one of the issues involved was access to the Panorama Room at […]

What if you had a Constitutional crisis and nobody cared?

The administration is finally doing a decent job of responding to the NSA Intercept “scandal.” In fact, I defy any reasonable person to watch yesterday’s speech by General Michael Hayden, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, with an open mind and still think that there […]

I finally found the audio for the debate between Christopher Hitchens and Scott Ritter. Enjoy.

BACKGROUND: Does anyone think anymore? and Hitchens v. Galloway

Oklahoma Christian University has gotten a little national attention for its plan to implement a written policy allowing President Mike O’Neal to fire workers who separate or divorce on other than “limited scriptural grounds.” I heard about it yesterday on the radio here in the D.C. area.

The school is now reconsidering the decision to […]

Here’s a post about Harding’s inclusion on the Young America’s Foundation top 10 that isn’t just “Bison hunting.”

And thus, these two gems from Random Thoughts.

The first is a fascinating post on Biblical health insurance, which is “‘regulation-free religious groups [offering] alternatives to traditional health insurance by banning risky, high-cost behavior.”

The second is a link to […]

More is being said here and here.

We’re home after a long (and great) Christmas vacation. So it’s back to work and back to whatever home-based blogging time permits.

Stuff I read today: Saddam’s Terror Training Camps by Stephen Hayes and U.S. shouldn’t have to do tap dance over bugging by Mark Steyn.

Money-quote from Hayes:

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Linda Chavez hits it out of the park this morning (hat tip: WorldMagBlog). This is why the political dynamic of the War on Terror is so familiar. We’ve been here before:

The current hysteria over the president’s authorization of some domestic intercepts by the National Security Agency reminds me of similar reaction […]

I offer this in a jovial spirit, so please don’t take it the wrong way.

What’s the deal with bow tie-wearing professors of international relations at Christian universities?

This one seems to have more in common with this one than just their neck wear and career choices (i.e. their war politics).

Mark Steyn isn’t the only one tempting me with pessimism lately.

This post about “The Most Disturbing Movie of 2005″ makes me afraid to grow old in a society whose conscience has grown so callous:

What does it say about our culture when even Christians can find quasi-pedophilia and scatology “poetic and penetrating”? Forget the […]