In response to Chasing Babe Ruth: 6 Myths About 1961’s Home Run Race , my friend Mark Barrett wrote me: Maris’s record never did have the asterisk but was recorded along with Ruth’s 1927 season in the record books. So many variables that changed from 1927 to 1961 that to focus on . . . . Continue Reading »
A young woman I know sent me the link to an article that I admit comes from an unusual source for “First Thoughts,” but one that amused me: Favorite Books of the Secretly Jerky . If you can’t (always) tell a book by its cover, you can often tell a man by his reading, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times today comments on the results of a new Gallup survey of American Muslims which suggests that, on the whole, followers of that faith are more hesitant to express patriotism and confidence in national institutions than Americans of other religious groups. Among the most intriguing . . . . Continue Reading »
An innovative preschool in Stockholm’s Sodermalm district does not enroll boys or girls, reports the Associated Press , but “friends.” Fighting the good fight for gender equality in the nation that is perhaps its most radical proponent, the tax-funded preschool “Egalia” . . . . Continue Reading »
To think some people take this guy seriously. Chris Mooney has a Looney Tunes blog post out today blaming testosterone and the supposed need to dominate others for global warming skepticism among angry white male conservatives. (Talk about cliched thinking!)It’s a real hoot. . . . . Continue Reading »
The film Nine Days That Changed The World is about JPII’s pilgrimage to Poland in 1979 while it was still under the Soviet Union’s control. It documents the uproar his visit caused and how fragile the Communist hold over that country really was. His stay sparked the Solidarity . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier today I wrote about The Emerging Church’s Reinvented Wheel . Readers interested in the subject of the “emerging church” and related movements that claim to be engaging postmodernity will enjoy our friend Matthew Milliner’s 9.5 Theses . (Through the creative use of . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Mark DeGirolami at Mirror of Justice, I see that Italy is contemplating a ban of veils worn by Muslim women: An Italian parliamentary commission on Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft passed by the constitutional affairs . . . . Continue Reading »
Islamist factions jockey for power, vow religious rule , reports Betsy Hiel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , reporting from Egypt, where she had to don a headcovering to interview members of the Salafist movement. They follow no centralized hierarchy; their religious philosophy can vary, as can . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an odd lawsuit. A pro life Democrat, former Congressman Steve Driehaus, was accused by the Susan B. Anthony List in ads (such as the one to the left) of supporting government funding of abortion by voting for Obamacare. He lost his campaign for reelection and sued SBAL for . . . . Continue Reading »
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