The Lutheran has an interview with Judge John E. Jones, the federal judge who ruled on the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Intelligent Design trial last year. Jones responds to some of the critics who disagreed with his ruling, touching on the role of the judiciary, our establishment clause, and his own faith.
Time recently published a letter from a Marine stationed in Iraq. It contains some great insight into the situation there, from someone who has to deal with it day in and day out. A few excerpts: Worst City in al-Anbar Province — Ramadi, hands down. The provincial capital of 400,000 people. Lots and lots of […]
A friend pointed this out to me yesterday – apparently, Karl Rove has an October surprise up his sleeve for the elections this year: In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an “October surprise” to help win the November congressional elections … Rove is not saying what the October surprise will […]
Key judgements from the “Trends in Global Terrorism” National Intelligence Estimate have been declassified and placed online. At least from this portion of it, the report sounds less damning than the original news articles suggested. Iraq is but one of several reasons listed for the spread of Islamic radicalism: Four underlying factors are fueling the […]
A recent National Intelligence Estimate reportedly claims that the war in Iraq is actually increasing the risk posed to us by Islamic terrorism: The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday […]
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released a report on the 20 most corrupt members of Congress. You can read the full report at their site, or click on a name in the […]
Ed Brayton has a great post up at Dispatches From the Culture Wars. It deals with the way people draw unnecessary battle lines based on attributes such as religion, when in reality we often find that many of the truly important issues tend to make those battle lines irrelevant and even harmful. One passage stood […]
Supporters of the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war often dispute the notion that things aren’t going well in Iraq. One argument you may see is something to the effect of “3 of 18 provinces have problems, the rest are relatively untouched.” An article about a recent DOD report echoed that statistic, saying: Most […]
In the recent conversations I’ve had about the West Virginia lawsuit involving the portrait of Jesus, as well as other discussions revolving around schools and religion, the opinion is often expressed that school prayer should be ok, and that school-sanctioned religious displays don’t harm anyone. However, many people disagree with that sentiment, including some evangelical […]
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