Rhetorical Outbursts

I must buy this book.

Scott Seegert combed through the more than 7 million inventions filed with the US Patent and Trademark office to find the dumbest, dude-liest schemes ever proffered. He compiled his favorites in a new book, It’s a Guy Thing: Awesome Innovations From the Underdeveloped Male Mind.

For some examples […]

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking or talking about this subject, but have long been of the opinion that the District of Columbia was never intended to be a state and should not be made into a state. If the residents of D.C. wish to have the privileges of statehood and do […]

I saw this on the Corner.

American commanders cite al-Qaida’s severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.

Read the whole article if you like.

In contrast the civil tone of the debate linked in my previous post, I just read this tidbit from Patrick Mead:

You see, every time I even mention that my son has joined the Marines I get nasty emails from militant Christian pacifists. Some of them are attacks, some are snide remarks, some are […]

In case, like me, you missed it and didn’t know it was online, here are the links to video of the American Studies Institute debate on just war and pacifism at Harding University. The audio isn’t great, but you can make it out. Political Cartel has a nice summary and there was some […]

Thank goodness. Iran has told us what to think about the tragedy at Virginia Tech:

“Attacking innocent people, irrespective of their race and nationality, is contrary to divine and human values no matter which group or person carries out such an act under any name,” the Iranian statement said.

Yeah, I guess the Mullahs […]

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This could put a real crimp in your day. Especially if it took more than a few hours to get things sorted out. Probably a good idea to always keep a little cash on hand, […]

The “breakdown of marriage in the United States threatens America’s future. It is turning us into a nation of separate and unequal families.” That’s the premise of Manhattan Institute marriage and family scholar Kay Hymowitz’s new book, Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age. She recently took some […]

Name that speech:

[W]e must never forget that no government schemes are going to perfect man. We know that living in this world means dealing with what philosophers would call the phenomenology of evil or, as theologians would put it, the doctrine of sin. There is sin and evil in the […]

I know it shouldn’t come as a surprise that someone would take advantage of a position of trust and exploit it to his own monetary gain. But this makes me mad!

A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln’s death, […]