Forgetting Past Mistakes is to Repeat Them
When I first wrote about Wiley Drake he’d made waves by positing that God would strike Rick Warren down for speaking at President Obama’s inauguration. Unfortunately Drake has laid another, even more foul egg with which to stink up the name of Christianity, by saying that he’s actively praying for Barack Obama to die.
Sometimes a picture really does say 1000 words, doesn’t it? Not a very classy way to represent one’s country.
Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was one worth making. He made some important points and made them more firmly than I had hoped he would. True, the president could have done more to clarify our country’s intention to hold to its own values, regardless of public opinion among foreign Muslims, but then he…
In response to the murder of abortionist Dr. George Tiller, the Houston Chronicle’s editors asked a pertinent question today – “When does anti-abortion rhetoric cross the line from free speech?” Before I begin, a question in return: from free speech into what, exactly? Presumedly the editors mean a criminal act. Fair enough – speech is…
In Cairo, Barack Obama said something that’s both singularly offensive and utterly fallacious when he stated that “one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Taking the inaccuracy first, estimates vary but…
An interesting tidbit from my neck of the woods: Liberty County Sheriff’s officials are expected to meet with the FAA on Tuesday to discuss what a Continental Express pilot reported as a “missile or rocket” flying near his airplane. A pilot reported to the Federal Aviation Administration that at about 8:15 p.m. Friday, an object…
Sometimes I have to wonder why people think they need to have an opinion on everything. Case in point: A man took his wife to the theater in New York and the Republican National Convention felt it necessary to respond critically to this act of kindness because the man was Barack Obama.
Deliberate readers of this blog will have noticed its diminished content recently, a reduction caused in large part by the demands of my day job. As rewarding as having this forum can be, it must be said that it doesn’t put so much as a crumb of food on the table. Another component of my…
Not long ago we were worrying about Pakistan’s apparent lack of will to grapple with its Taliban problem and wondering if the government there – and the nuclear weapons it controls – would stay in power. Now Pakistan’s army is going house-to-house in Mingora to root terrorists out of the Swat valley’s main city and having success.
Megan McArdle has wrestled with this question and came up with a wonderfully clear answer:
If people really acted as if the choice to default were morally neutral, we’d either lose most of our credit system, or the legal rules would have to be much more punitive.