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How to Think About Global Warming
Contrarian Musings | December 8th 2009 by Joseph Y Calhoun
Kevin Williamson at NRO shows how to look at global warming starting with this reasonable observation: 1. The planet is getting warmer. This seems to accord with what we know. From 1906 to 2005, the average surface temperature rose by 0.74 degrees Ce read more
Fort Hood shooting, yet another way to attack Obama
at-Largely | November 12th 2009 by Larisa Alexandrovna
Jim Geraghty writes an astonishingly foolish piece on the Fort Hood shooting, tying it to the Obama administration as though this was akin to Bush's "Katrina moment." The National Review Online does... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely. read more
Brian McLaren Letter to Obama: Give Al Queda $65m – Yes We Can
Discerning The World | October 22nd 2009 by Discerning The World
Brian McLaren recently observed Ramadan with his Muslim friends. He has obviously learned much, as he now understands his duty as a dhimmi. In a recent post he advices Pres. Obama, the Nobel Peace prize winner, on how to achieve peace in Afghanist read more
NRO: Kennedy the Catholic
Acton Institute PowerBlog | August 27th 2009
Published today on National Review Online: I only met Edward Kennedy once. I had been invited to visit then-senator Phil Gramm, who was contemplating a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996. Having read some of my musings on the topi read more
Symposium on End of Economic Downturn?
Small Business Resource | July 29th 2009 by Tushar Mathur
National Review Online asked the following symposium question this week:Now that the stock market is beginning to rally and profits are once again being reported, we called and asked them what they make of this good news. Did TARP work, or at least h read more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a Question of Eugenics
VoteNovember2008 | July 15th 2009 by VoteNovember2008
Does Ginsburg see eugenic culling as a compelling state interest?By Jonah GoldbergJuly 15, 2009Here’s what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: “Frankly I had thought that at the time [Roe v. Wade] read more
What I’m Reading: “I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin”
Fastidious | July 7th 2009 by Fastidious
Sorry that the blog has become an “all-Palin-all-the-time” blog, but this article from NRO is a must read before you discuss Sarah Palin again. Writing from the POV of a liberal insider, David Kahene explains why and how Sarah Palin had read more
NRO: The Divine Economy
Acton Institute PowerBlog | July 6th 2009
My commentary on the forthcoming social encyclical was published on National Review Online. Here’s the complete text: On Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI will release his first social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. The pre-release buzz from the Cat read more
Catholics approve of Notre Dame's Obama Invite
Pop Civics | April 30th 2009 by stiffa
Did you hear the one about the conservative who got mad that a democrat was pro-choice? Yeah? Me too. The latest version goes something like. Obama kills babies. Notre Dame wants him to give a commencement address. Therefore Obama will teach No read more
Marc Thiessen makes a Really Bad Excuse for Torture
Pop Civics | April 25th 2009 by stiffa
Over on The Corner today, Marc Thiessen is being dumb:Ramesh states in his post regarding the difference between waterboarding done in SERE training that our military undergoes, and the waterboarding used in the enhanced interrogations of KSM and oth read more
A Conservative Who is 100% Right About Torture Investigation
Pop Civics | April 24th 2009 by stiffa
Ramesh Ponnuru is 100%, absolutely right. Posted at The Corner:Based on my reading, the leading argument against prosecutions is that it would be imprudent, divisive, poisonous, etc., and therefore an abuse of prosecutorial discretion. I don't know i read more
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