Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Did you know that Rosh Hashanah, along with Yom Kippur, of course, is one of the oldest continuously celebrated holidays in the world? It got its start in Leviticus: 23:23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23:24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in
Continue readingHey, everyone. I wanted to let you know that you can stop calling Orkin now about CNN’s “God’s Warriors” series, since Orkin has been helpful, honest and responsive regarding this show. Here’s their representative’s latest missive: Just want to circle back to give the final update from Orkin. We had
Continue readingMany of us on the conservative side bemoan the decline of religion on moral grounds. The Judeo-Christian tradition spells out moral absolutes, so that we don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel to figure out the big “rights” and the big “wrongs.” (David Klinghoffer points out the disaster that happens
Continue readingThank you as always for your insightful and thoughtful comments. I always love throwing out topics and seeing the wonderful places you take them. Today, I’d like to ask another question that relates to faith. One thing that cannot be denied about the Islamists is that they have a deep
Continue readingI’m reading Ann Coulter’s Godless : The Church of Liberalism. I actually didn’t intend to check it out of the library when I first saw it. I can take Ann in small doses, because I think she’s very clever, and her observations are often spot-on. I also think she’s very
Continue readingI think you, my readers, will enjoy this interview with geneticist Francis Collins. What a joyous soul. It doesn’t take me away from being an atheist — I seem stuck there — but he makes me envy him his faith, especially the way he harmonizes faith and science. Even if
Continue readingIgnatius Insight Scoop explains why you don’t want to go to The New Yorker for a reasoned critique of the Pope. (Hat tip: Paragraph Farmer.) Then, just to round things out, CDR Salamander offers a video explaining what the Pope actually said last Fall that excited so much Muslim outrage,
Continue readingFrom Jay Nordlinger: Reading about John Edwards and what he thinks Jesus would think of us, I remembered the rule. You know the rule, don’t you? You can talk about Jesus and religion all you want, if you’re a liberal Democrat. That’s cool. But if you’re a conservative Republican, you
Continue readingUPDATED AND BUMPED, BECAUSE I THINK THE UPDATE IS WORTH READING. Thanks to DB for bringing to my attention an op-ed Dinesh D’Souza wrote challenging the conventional wisdom holding that we should secularize all countries as fast as possible to rid the world of the menance of religious war. (Of
Continue readingNancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra — raised Catholic, but not currently practicing her religion — is selling her new movie, which focuses on Evangelical Christians. Her San Francisco Chronicle interview is worth reading, to my mind, for a couple of things. To begin with, it’s interesting to see Pelosi’s embarrassed, guilt-stricken
Continue readingSometimes it’s interesting to take an idea to its logical conclusion. Regular readers may recall that I weighed in when Dennis Prager questioned whether it was right to remove the Bible from a Congressional swearing-in ceremony. I originally thought Mr. Prager had erred because he wasn’t thinking about the nature
Continue readingMarin is one of America’s bluest bastions, and San Anselmo is one of the bluest parts, with a lot of grown up (sort of) hippie types, but there are still little dots of red, some of whom are very assertive in their beliefs. So it is that in San Anselmo,
Continue readingI like the way Dennis Prager thinks, and I usually find myself agreeing with him. This time I don’t. As you may know, because it’s caused something of a stir in cyberspace (and, I understood, in the old media), Dennis Prager has challenged Keith Ellison’s decision to take his Congressional
Continue readingA Vatican cardinal has weighed in on the fence the US is proposing to build between the US and Mexican border, calling it “inhuman,” and comparing it to the Berlin Wall. The Catholic Church is in deep trouble if its spokesmen are unable to recognize the difference between a fence
Continue readingBritain’s Anglican Church seems to be waking up, not just to the terrorists within England’s borders, but to the fifth column as well. Thus, the second most senior Anglican in England has launched a full frontal, no holds barred attack against the BBC for being (a) anti-Christian and (b) afraid
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