[Weather] said, “Look, whatever – I’m not talking about all of that. I’m talking about our daughter.” “I know you are,” Lucas said. “And like I said, we’re all a little crazy, but basically, and overall, Letty’s okay.” “How do you know?” “Because she’s just like me,” Lucas said. “And I’m okay, mostly.” I’ve praised John Sandford’s “Prey” novels, starring Minnesota state cop Lucas Davenport, more than once in this blog. It’s a pleasure to be able to report that Stolen Prey, the latest volume…
Here’s a very revealing item for those interested in understanding the progressive worldview: the Internal Revenue Service has been accused, in addition to its many malfeasances already revealed, of asking people what they pray about. When queried about this in testimony before a congressional committee today, acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller could not bring himself to condemn such an outrageous intrusion into innocent people’s innermost thoughts: “It pains me to say I can’t speak to that one either. But that’s an —” Miller said. “You…
Lee would have to be mad to send his divisions across that field. And Hunt was sure he would do it. When I finished reading Ralph Peters’ Civil War novel Cain at Gettysburg, I almost checked my clothing for blood spatter. Up until now Michael Shaara’s epic novel The Killer Angels has been considered not only the best Gettysburg novel ever written, but the best possible Gettysburg novel. It’s been a long time since I read Shaara’s book, but I’m fairly certain that, for all…
On Sunday when I woke up from my slumber I turned to my wife and said, Happy Parent 1 Day! She laughed. Little did I know how prescient I was. Sometime later that day I come upon an article that explained, surprise, surprise, that the Department of Education is going to Eliminate 'Mother,' 'Father' from federal student aid forms! Just as I predicted, out with father and mother, in with Parent 1 and Parent 2! Why only two, I’m not sure, but we’ll eventually “progress”…
The republishing of classic genre fiction (which I know is a contradiction in terms for some people) continues apace as e-publishing and print-on-demand reduce publication costs. The latest good news: Amazon Publishing is reprinting most of the Saint novels by Leslie Charteris and the Mrs. Bradley books of Gladys Mitchell. Both series began in the late 1920s and lasted for several decades. Both still have very enthusiastic followings (and somewhat separate ones) among current-day aficionados of mystery and suspense fiction. Exemplifying this continuing interest, a…
What do Tim Tebow, the US Military, Chris Broussard and Chick-fil-A have in common? They are all examples in 2013 America that our cultural elites HATE Christians, and will do anything they can to silence, delegitimize, stigmatize, and demonize them. Western cultural elites have always hated Christians, but the boomer venerated 1960s started a process of culture forming professions being taken over, so to speak, by secular progressives. By now media, entertainment and education/academia are totally dominated by these people who literally despise conservative Christianity.…
Sen. John McCain wants to "let" cable customers buy channels individually, by forcing cable companies to offer them the option. Rest assured that the mandate, if implemented, will have the opposite of its intended effect and end up raising prices and reducing access to TV programming.
Most Americans who have an opinion about the current obsession to redefine marriage tend to think the only people standing athwart history yelling “STOP!” are conservative religious folk. They would be wrong. Certainly a large majority of people who embrace traditional morality based on revealed religion do not accept the notion that marriage is a malleable social construct that can be willy-nilly defined any which way we choose. But redefining marriage is such a bad idea, and as importantly is being done in such a…
A review in yesterday's New York Times exemplifies an error I've found to be quite common these days: the idea that strong affection for a member the same sex is equivalent to homosexuality. This line of thinking degrades elevated feelings into a category of the merely bestial: the sex drive (not that there's anything wrong with that). . . .
I’m not a big fan of the Barna Group, a “research organization focused on the intersection of faith and culture.” I normally like such intersections, because our secular cultural elites like to keep them clear and they get annoyed when people of faith, especially conservative Christians have the temerity to think their views actually deserve a fair hearing in the public square. Why I particularly don’t like Barna is because their polling is unnuanced and inaccurate, specifically regarding how people in America perceive conservative Christians.
“I just don’t know why you can’t have it both ways. You know, give unbridled effort in your defense but be conscientious about your work. Try for the best outcome.” “The best outcome for who? Your client? Society? Or for yourself? Your responsibility is to your client and the law, Bullocks. That’s it.” I gave her a long stare before continuing. “Don’t go growing a conscience on me,” I said. “I’ve been down that road. It doesn’t lead you to anything good.” I’ve said before…
The Company You Keep is a fictional drama about former members of the violent radical leftist group, the Weather Underground (that actually existed). A number of them went underground after a bank robbery in Michigan committed by some of its members in which a bank guard was killed. The film opens thirty years afterwards when one of the perpetrators decides to give herself up. The film follows the ramifications of this on other former members, of whom Robert Redford (who directed the film) is the…
On my morning visit to Real Clear Politics I see a link that makes me think I must have woken up in an alternate reality, where Spock has a beard and Bill Maher is a defender of the Christian religion. That link proves to be real, ‘Maher To Defender Of Islam: Equating Christianity And Islam “Liberal Bullshit.”‘ Bill Maher, atheist extraordinaire, who has said that religion, most especially Christianity, is a mental disease, actually has a moment of clarity and rebukes a liberal agenda pusher…
In modern America at the risk of being branded a bigoted intolerant hater, I seek here to explain the radical hypocrisy of the left-liberal when it comes to the popular issue de jure, redefining marriage. As we are told ad nauseum, marriage is about, all about, beginning, middle and end, the romantic relationship of two adults (why not more, well, I can only point out so much inconsistency in one blog post). Children, well not so much.
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