Rhetorical Outbursts

From this list of “insanely useful websites,” I think this one may be the most insanely cool:

Metavid is a project that captures, streams, archives and facilitates real-time collective remediation of federal legislative proceedings. Metavid opens up video source footage of House and Senate proceedings for permanent reusable online access, allowing citizens to remix, investigate, and […]

The intro runs about 30-seconds before the sound starts. So be patient (or skip forward); it’s working.

Too few people saw this video back when it was made, before YouTube and Google video became what they are. It used to be available on the House Committee’s website, until a new Chairman took it down […]

Our congregation recently conducted a lengthy survey prepared by some consultants from Harding University. It had tons of questions, but the very first substantive question under the heading “personal beliefs” asked to what extent you agree or disagree with the statement: “God is constantly at work in the world directing people, nations and events.”Turns […]

I volunteered, working phone banks to raise money for Mike Huckabee when he was just an out-of-work preacher running for the U.S. Senate and then again for Lt. Governor of Arkansas. I drove him from event-to-event when he came to Searcy back in those days. When I left for D.C. all those years […]

Apparently, our congregation has a forum.

Here’s one pacifist’s idea of proactive nonviolence. Click play to hear a recent call to the Dennis Prager show. Although Prager quickly veers into ad hominem, which is atypical of him, I still find the exchange interesting.

The caller’s sister may not be all the things Prager said, but she is certainly treating her brother-in-law […]

No, it’s not an Onion or Scrappleface headline. Well, it was. But, now it’s for real, except she’s a priest instead of a bishop.

She says she is “both Muslim and Christian.” Apparently she was hiding the Muslim part, but recently came out:

Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding […]

Here are some interesting perspectives:

A World Without Public Schools: If the consensus underlying American public education has disappeared, why shouldn’t the institution? The Weekly Standard — David Geletmer argues for what critics of school choice have long accused proponents of secretly desiring.

Why not liberate all the vast resources we spend on […]

Click to play. Then laugh.

Mark Steyn responds to an odd accusation: On Fox News the other night, I was told by NPR's Juan Williams, "You're anti-immigrant!" Er, actually, I am an immigrant – one of the members of the very very teensy-weensy barely statistically detectable category of "legal immigrant". But perhaps that doesn't count any more.