The Left

I planned to do other things this evening, but got caught up in this discussion at Larry James’ blog. He started by re-posting on why we should not be content to always have the poor with us, citing Deuteronomy. It went from there to the question of who are “the poor” anyway? […]

Via Michael Barone’s blog, this interesting Rasmussen poll tells us something about who is in the anti-war movement:

The single most distinguishing characteristic of the anti-War movement is a dislike of President Bush. Ninety-one percent (91%) of those in the movement disapprove of the way the President is doing his job. That figure includes […]

The latest reports confirm 19 dead, 51 injured so far — with two Americans among the injured. For comprehensive coverage, check the Counterterrorism Blog.

While waiting for more news to develop about Bali, there’s this interview of Debra Burlingame, via Michelle Malkin. Burlingame is the sister of the pilot murdered by the hijackers […]

Mick Wright links to a letter-to-the editor from a senior at Harding University on the Ann Coulter brouhaha, which includes a reference to the “blogging alumni who so adamantly opposed” her. The author, Zachary Cheatam, points to another example of a lefty who was an American Studies Institute (ASI) speaker at Harding: Wesley Clark. […]

Wolf Blitzer’s interview of CNN-founder Ted Turner this week was unbelievable. In his comments about North Korea, Turner demonstrated a remarkable combination of ignorance, naivete, and above all, narcissism. The net effect of his performance was to dismiss the horrific human suffering that plagues the North Korean people:

And I was really […]

I’m so tired of reading about “post-modernism,” at least from post-modernists. Chuck Colson’s exchange of open letters with Brian McLaren was interesting though. You can read the whole thing on McLaren’s website. I ran across it a few months before I started blogging, but it is so memorable that I wanted to […]

Mick Wright has another great post on Fishkite tweaking the religious left. After commenting on Jim Wallis and Sojourners and others, he turns to the small-fry:

Also: Kendallball explains how, in addition to simply loving the sinner and hating the sin, God may in fact “endorse and approve” of the homosexual lifestyle.

Not surprising, […]

Conservatives love Christopher Hitchens because Christopher Hitchens loves America. He is one of the few remaining leftists whose thought is not dominated by the fundamental assumption that the United States is evil. More than that, he actually believes his adopted homeland is one of the greatest forces for good in the world. He is […]

With liberals these days preferring to call themselves “progressive,” this insight is a good one to keep in mind:

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most […]

The Roberts hearings began yesterday. It started at noon and took all day just to get through the opening statements. I was puzzled by this section of Sen. Feinstein’s statement on the separation of church and state (only a part of which she had time to read aloud):

I recently traveled to Europe where […]