Month: June 2005

Advani Resigns

Well, here I sit in Texas visiting family, and in India there are dramatic happenings.  The head of the BJP, the Hindu Nationalist Party, has resigned. It seems that he made a visit to Pakistan and said that Jinnah was a...

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Open Thread

Well-behaved women never make history!    Karen Silkwood: I remember in high school her saying, ‘Now what’d you want to take that science class for? There’s no girls in that science class. You...

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American Religious Devotion?

Booman diarist hfiend wrote about this poll yesterday, but I want to renew the conversation here. The results, I thought, didn’t actually say very much. 2% of Americans say they don’t believe in God, and better than...

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Katherine Harris to Run for Senate in 2006

Oh god. My head hurts. “Republican Rep. Katherine Harris, who as Florida’s secretary of state was both praised and vilified for her part in the 2000 presidential recount, said Tuesday she will run for the Senate next...

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