Mary Rose Somarriba

The Baptist Joint Committee for Religion Freedom has completed a “thorough examination of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s church-state record,” and finds it “commendable”: While Sotomayor’s written record raises no red flags, it also fails to provide . . . . Continue Reading »

You’ve seen those HSBC ads —you know the ones about perspectives? Like this one: I ran into this sign yesterday on someone’s lawn—posted in the grass like one of those lawn campaign signs—and I couldn’t help but be puzzled. So I’ve developed my own . . . . Continue Reading »

Laughable sign number two (see number one ) from my summer travels. . . . . Continue Reading »

Just ran into this as I started my short vacation the other day. So many questions. The first that comes to mind: Did some TSA worker have an experience with snow globes similar to The Anchoress’ experience with fruit ? . . . . Continue Reading »

If you haven’t already, check out The Atlantic ‘s continuing interview with James Poulos of Postmodern Conservative at FT. Also: David P. Goldman fears art , and Sally Thomas offers some frightful and funny examples . . . . . Continue Reading »

Check out FT junior fellow Ryan Sayre Patrico’s review of Remi Brague’s Legend of the Middle Age s—this weekend on National Review Online . . . . . Continue Reading »

Sally Thomas brings you “Burnt Offering” Barbeque Sauce . . . . . Continue Reading »

Don’t miss The Anchoress on the media’s deification of Obama. And, while you’re at it: the self-aware blogger on blogging. . . . . Continue Reading »

“I wanna be that dad who knows how to make stuff out of wood,” Burt Farlander says, deciding for the first time what he wants to be when he grows up. It’s a little late for such thoughts, since he’s in his mid-thirties. But he never had much of a reason before now—now that . . . . Continue Reading »

James Poulos offers an insightful twist on the slippery-slope argument re: same-sex marriage in this webcast at Postmodern Conservative : It’s not that considering same-sex marriage is causing us to slip as a culture to a depreciated state of marriage; it’s the other way around. . . . . Continue Reading »