If the election were held today, Senator Obama would win easily.
The election will not be held today and there are still two major events to come.
However, the melt down on Wall Street and the unpopular bail out plan upset the best laid plans of the McCain campaign. McCain could only have caught up immediately by opposing the unpopular plan . . . but he thinks it in the ...
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Bottom Line:
There are good reasons to think Governor Palin is up to the job of Vice-President and insufficient reasons to doubt it. Critics on the right are basing their arguments on too little information and the wrong kind of information. Rod Dreher, in particular, has jumped on and off the Palin team with astonishing alacrity. His present opinions about Palin are based ...
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My favorite band, The Lost Dogs, just finished up a Route 66 road trip with a beach party concert in Santa Monica. It may not quite count as The American Dream, but winding from Chicago to L.A. on what is now the nostalgic back road of the nation is pretty cool. The Lost Dogs did it right: they loaded the whole band in a modest-sized motor-home and took their time, making pl...
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Rod Dreher is always worth reading.
He has the rare ability of being able to argue from a particular experience to a general principle persuasively.
I do not follow his argument regarding Governor Sarah Palin, however. He seems to believe that Governor Palin has recently done things that place her fitness of the office of Vice-President in question. Almost all of those ...
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Kathleen Parker writes. She also teaches public speaking and writing in a program with a distinguished front porch.
Today she decided that her problem with Sarah Palin's interview skills should be America's problem.
Let me take a moment to praise Parker.
Parker has opinions, and by happenstance often has good opinions. This is evidence of God's goodness, since she w...
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Every aborted baby looks alike, but every child allowed to live becomes absolutely unique. Abortion crushes liberty for the sake of a single choice—it ends possibility with the cruel actuality of murder.
Roe should be overturned because by judicial fiat it hallows killing the innocent as part of our Constitution. In a just society there can be no right to do evil. Not ever...
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I was recently directed towards Andrew Jones’ blog entitled “A Gift Economy,” where the author was reflecting on Christian worship and the concept of gift. Jones’ main contention is that much Christian worship is passive, in that most worshippers are expected to receive during the worship time as opposed to giving something of themselves. I would affirm that this is tru...
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The 103rd Psalm comes pretty close to perfect praise. It seems to be built around the quotation of God's own self-description from Exodus 34,
The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clea...
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Featured Essay
Like her biblical namesake, the Ruth of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (1980) is a sojourner among strangers. The almost misleading title of the novel suggests that the novel will be concerned with the daily habits that constitute and stabilize domestic life. Instead, the novel’s protagonists inhabit their house without feeling at home. Similarly, they live in their hom...
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RVDELY thou wrongest my deare harts desire,
In finding fault with her too portly pride:
the thing which I doo most in her admire,
is of the world vnworthy most enuide.
For in those lofty lookes is close implide,
scorn of base things, & sdeigne of foule dishonor:
thretning rash eies which gaze on her so wide,
that loosely they ne dare to looke vpon her.
S...
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Joos van Wassenhove (a.k.a. Justus of Ghent) was a Renaissance Netherlandish painter who spent the greater part of his career in Italy. He became a member of the Antwerp Guild in 1460, but by 1464 had moved to Ghent. Sometime after 1468 he went to Rome and by 1472 had settled in Urbino. Joos's only documented work is The Communion of the Apostles (also known as The Institution ...
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The news on Wall Street has been bad, but should start getting better.
Christians face death in India.
Some very good students are exploring Phaedo at my house on Wednesday nights.
That is all news.
Polls are not news . . . and remember I am not saying this because they now show an Obama-Biden uptick. They do, but while better for Team Obama than the reverse it is ...
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