Christopher Barnekov, director of Scandinavia House in Fort Wayne, Indiana, sends a report on a new Swedish law restricting home schooling and thereby restricting religious freedom as well. He asks that I mention that this is “first look at a very complex development” and based on . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is endlessly fascinating. And so I enjoyed Mr. Pomocon’s post below and the responses to it. Here are some random comments that are meant to be provocative in the armchair speculation kind of way: 1. Lincoln could have avoided the war had that been his highest objective. 2. The war was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Denver Post has an illuminating article on the work of Wycliffe Bible Translators : Protestant translators expect to have the Bible — or at least some of it — written in every one of the world’s 6,909 spoken languages. “We’re in the greatest period of acceleration in . . . . Continue Reading »
From You’ll Never Be Alone , an article on touring retirement communities: Meanwhile, the job of asking about construction, bylaws, monthly fees, and whether two people who never played golf would still be paying for the upkeep on a championship course fell to me. Only once did I come up with . . . . Continue Reading »
“Although the practical effect will be negligible, the [new] .XXX domain is a potent symbol and cultural marker for our present condition,” writes Joe Carter in today’s “On the Square” article, Virtue in Virtual Gomorrah . He doesn’t stop with the usual lament, . . . . Continue Reading »
“You know, a lot of people feel sorry for him, because he’s so tall and awkward,” said Charles Barkley, about his former 76ers teammate Manute Bol, “But I’ll tell you this—if everyone in the world was a Manute Bol, it’s a world I’d want to live in.” In . . . . Continue Reading »
We have been told by the Davos set, people like Thomas Friedman, that we should be more like China—and then we could build worker friendly green industries on the double time! Of course, China’s near slave labor pool of “migrant workers” helps the country, shall we say, . . . . Continue Reading »
In Germany, immigrants defend the country’s flag while left-wing Germans tear it down : With Germany celebrating as its football team advances through the World Cup, the flag is flying everywhere in the country. But as one German of Lebanese descent has found out, not everyone in the country . . . . Continue Reading »
The San Fransisco Chronicle recently asked its political columnist Debra J. Saunders (a.k.a. Secondhand Smokette) to begin a blog. Debra calls it Token Conservative—for reasons that anyone familiar with the politics of Baghdad by the Bay will readily understand.Debra is a wonderful . . . . Continue Reading »
Before watching the latest delight from Pixar, Toy Story 3 , last weekend, I saw the preview for Disney’s next animated-cartoon film, Tangled. It’s the next in Disney’s line of princess films, this time based on the story of Rapunzel. There’s something refreshing . . . . Continue Reading »
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