Month: January 2010

Looking back at the past twelve months can anyone doubt that it has been a good year for contrarians, those curmudgeons (mostly conservatives now) that occupied the redoubts of, …

We learn via Gates of Vienna of yet another fatwa:Wearing elaborate hairdos and being photographed before one's wedding are haram, against the Islamic religion and morality. Two all-female educational …

From Michael Novak at the Corner who still thinks Coakley can win: I am still registered in Cambridge, I bet, from 50 years ago at Harvard. The Democratic practice …

Not much, according to the Associated Press: WASHINGTON - A federal spending surge of more than $20 billion for roads and bridges in President Barack Obama's first stimulus has …

That from Mehmet Ali Agca, also known as the man who shot Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago, who was set free by authorities today:The last potential …

With all the charities raising money for Haitian relief, one name has caught my ear: The William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. And it set off alarm bells for me. …

My wife works in the medical industry.  Nearly daily, she tells me of patients who walk into her office with an attitude of entitlement as large if not larger …

I'm having a hard time posting on the Brown-Coakley race in Massachusetts. To put it bluntly, I fear the echo chamber. The right side of the blogosphere has gone …

What the hell happened? There was a huge shift in the American psyche at some point in the last few years, and for the life of me I can't …

Looking around the internet, I noticed a severe lack of graphical annotations of the Massachusetts polls between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. So I put the impetus on myself …