Almost every day I stumble across a news item/article/blog post that causes me to say, “I did not know that.” Here are ten of them that you (probably) didn’t know either. 1. Moammar Gadhafi might have been the richest man in the world. [ source ] 2. Hope uniquely predicts . . . . Continue Reading »
This is huge. Geron, which has spent many years touting its embryonic stem cell program as the future of regenerative medicine, is abandoning the field. From the Washington Post story:The company doing the first government-approved test of embryonic stem cell therapy is discontinuing further . . . . Continue Reading »
I was going to write something longish about the excellent Henry Olsen, but I’m kind of tired and it would take more mental energy than I have at the moment. So I’ll go back to shooting fish in a barrel. Herman Cain has had a tough day. His answer on Libya was . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for the Manhattan Institute’s blog, Jonathan Imber offers some pointed reflections on the student reaction to the recent scandal at Penn State. While our own Joe Carter dealt with the character of the students who were more outraged over the termination of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Set me free, why don’t ya, Baby? Get out my life, why don’t ya Baby? Because you don’t really love me, you just keep me hangin’ on. You don’t really need me, but you keep me hangin’ on. Why don’t ya get out of my life, and let me make a new . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy Dalrymple on what he lost —and found again—at Princeton Seminary: As he described his retreat, I kept hearing a particular word — a word that surprised me, a word that I had not heard or spoken so openly and frequently for years. Do you want to know what the word was? Jesus. . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember the Atlas Shrugged movie from this spring? More than 100,000 copies are sitting on store shelves right now with a title card that reads “ AYN RAND’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life . . . ” Because we all know Ayn Rand is all about self-sacrifice! . . . . Continue Reading »
The great Walter Russell Mead posted yesterday an atypically predictable essay, one that is Against the Boomers . In his comments, I insist that the problem is the Liberal-Boomers, not the generation generally. As a society we owe everything to the many sane boomers, and as a conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , David Mills laments the privileged place of anger in our culture: You see this in the reaction to Occupy Wall Street. For liberal writers, the ragtag group encamped near the Stock Exchange are expressing admirable anger at . . . whatever target the writers want . . . . Continue Reading »
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