The Culture

John Hood at The Corner excerpts this piece by Chuck Raasch of the Gannett News Service:

The 9/11 generation is both traditional and iconoclastic. Talking heads often depict it as selfish and disengaged, often symbolized by the empty pursuits of Paris Hilton. In fact, according to social scientists, Generation Y has a […]

A big segment of Hollywood spoke out against terrorism in a full page advertisement in today’s Los Angeles Times:

The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt. Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, […]

I haven’t seen it yet, but World Trade Center is definitely one those few movies I will see in the theater, rather than waiting for the DVD. Lots of people seem to be surprised at what a good job Oliver Stone did, given his history and politics. From all accounts, it strikes […]

In addition to classic country music, there’s great new stuff coming out all the time. I’ve been humming this one for months now:

I feel no shame I’m proud of where I came from I was born and raised in the boondocks One thing I know No matter where […]

Or thereabouts.

I guess I’ll have to add this one to my “About” page [HT: Hot Air]:

Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as “a renegade band of rightwing extremists.”

Come and join our renegade band! We’ll put out an album with cover […]

Here’s why you must read Mark Steyn. In the last three days, he’s published the following lively and readable columns. Virtually everything he writes has gem or two like the excerpts below.

On The da Vinci Code and The Gospel of Judas:

The latest Bizarro Christ bestseller is the so-called Gospel of Judas, […]

by OOTM

The Ninth Ciruit, the court responsible for criminalizing would-be-pledgers-of-allegiance in elementary schools across the Western United States, recently held that school systems may lawfully engage in viewpoint discrimination (PDF).

I waited to post this, because I was hoping to come across a newpaper article (for linking purposes) that clearly stated the facts in a complete […]

by OOTM

I remember election night 2000. I stayed up all night waiting to find out which man would be the next president and which party would control Congress. It took 36 days to fully materialize, but in the end, I was thrilled. The Republicans had both houses of Congress and the White […]

Much of what is being said here about homosexuality and how Christians ought to behave toward homosexuals may be correct.

But it’s irrelevant.

It is irrelevant because most of the comments presume that the homosexuals in question are repentant or “struggling” with their orientation. Yet, the position of Soulforce and similar pro-homosexual groups is just the […]

by OOTM

Not that it matters to the loonies of the world that refuse to let facts shape their emotions, “but recently declassified documents explicitly show that the Iraqi military had ordered a call for volunteers to carry out suicide attacks on American interests, six months before 9/11 and two years almost to the day prior […]