Next Thursday (Nov 8) at 7pm in THE EVANS HALL AUDITORIUM. Two great teachers and leading scholars face off: Michael Debow of Samford Law School and David Ryden of Hope College. The immediate question: Did the Supreme Court rule correctly? (A question we can still ask, because the Constitution is . . . . Continue Reading »
For an authentically Mormon response to what I said at BYU. . . . . Continue Reading »
This and the next will be the last songbook posts on pop-music movies for a while. Despite my doing five(!) posts on ALMOST FAMOUS , two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of pop-music films , THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer . . . . Continue Reading »
And some tough comments on the vacuity of Romney’s campaign and the pandering of the president’s: The nature of the 2012 campaign poses an additional difficulty. I cannot remember an election in which the gap was greater between the magnitude of our problems and the substance of our . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Our Ralph had a couple of minor strokes that don’t seem to have had any permanent effect on him. Apparently he had one in the middle of our conference and carried on with perfect hospitality for the rest of the day. I got an email from him this morning full of vertical and horizontal . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So Romney is still up by .8% in the RCP head-to-head, but Obama’s average job approval has rebounded to 49.7% from its weekend low of around 48%. So we’re back to wondering if the remaining undecideds will break in the direction of the challenger or the direction of the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The polls today a VERY slight movement back toward Obama and a TIE overall by any reasonable reading. Meanwhile, it’s true enough that Romney has hope in all the battleground states, but he’s slightly behind in most of them. Intrade remains astute in the suggestion that Obama has . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember being befuddled by the claims of the Occupy Wall Street crowd? I do. Now those are promoted again in an ad intended to promote the president. It all seems t oo much, to me, anyway. . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHT HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
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