A correspondent has asked me to comment on the “sin of homophobia.” What is my take on that? In order to address this, we have to ask some questions first. If someone asked us about the sin of eating pork, our follow-up question would be to ask what religion they were concerned with. Judaism? Isalm? …
Nobody Names Their Kid Jeshurun Anymore
I have been a subscriber to National Review since I was a junior in high school or thereabouts, and so that means I have been reading those guys for around 40 years. I think this should give me the right to say something. Well, first, I should say thanks. I owe them all a great …
Like a Bear With a Sore Head
So then, Ron Paul was the surprise winner of the CPAC presidential straw poll, and herein lies a lesson . . . for somebody. He came in first by a long shot, Romney second, and Palin third. It may soon start to sink in on establishment republicants, who want to “harness” all that tea party …
Sarah Palin and Personal Loyalties
This will be a hard one to explain, but let me just put it out there anyway. Those who have followed the political threads on this blog will know that I like and respect Sarah Palin. This is not to say that I believe she is necessarily equipped to be president, but my reservation at …
The Earl of Greenback Trillions
Time will tell if the Tea Party movement — and other forms of less directed anger — will rise to an actual peasants-with-pitchforks moment. I can only say what Tolkien once said in another context entirely — one hopes. In order for the peasants to actually make it over the castle walls, in pursuit of …
A Floor Covered with Busted Wineskins
Somehow I made it all this distance without ever reading Abraham Kuyper’s original lecture on sphere sovereignty. That deficiency I have now corrected and, having just completed it, there is nothing I want to do so much as stand here on my office chair and sing a hymn. Here is one gem is that is …
10 Reasons Why Sarah Palin is Formidable
I haven’t posted on politics for a bit, and I thought I needed to jot down just a few things about Sarah Palin. She is a genuinely interesting figure, and so I thought I should mention ten reasons why I believe she is formidable. 1. She makes all the right people on the left go …
Political Kabuki
On the tube this evening, I saw a couple of neocons surrendering on the question of homosexuals in the military. The top brass are starting to capitulate on it, Obama is going a whole lot slower than the homosexual activists want him to, but he is moving on it, and what passes for a right …
Stick a Fork in It. Climate Change is Done.
Nostalgia Is Not An Eschatology
What are we to do over Chrissie Hynde’s distress over the fact that her city was gone? And back when I was a kid, there was a singer named Joe South, who had a similar song — “Don’t it make you want to go home?” “There’s a six-lane highway down by the creek where I …