Month: April 2011

If you are not a trained logician, philosopher, or theologian, opening your mouth about matters of heaven and hell can be pretty embarrassing, if you want to be taken seriously. I presume that Ross Douthat wants to be taken...

It’s funny. The House Republicans voted almost unanimously to put the anvil of Paul Ryan’s budget around their necks. So, why would the Senate Republicans worry about Harry Reid making them vote for the same bill?...

In a rational economic system (and yes I know some consider “rational economics” to be an oxymoron”), one would assume that a company that is pissing money down a storm drain in public would cut expenses and...

We will be discussing Guantanamo Bay’s prison facility this week. We will be discussing it because more than 700 highly classified documents pertaining to the detainees housed there have been leaked to the press. The New...

I understand why Egyptians want to put Mubarak on trial for murder, but it’s not helping matters in other Arab countries. Presently, people are trying to get the president of Yemen to leave office voluntarily. The same...