Mr. Keller, Answer Your Critics Directly

Bill Keller, Editor of the New York Times, has written a response to those who have expressed concern about the NYT exposing a secret program which the US government has been using to track financial transactions of terrorists and those who are doing business with them. The Times last week published their findings [...]

Alleged Sears Tower Terrorists Arrested

Breaking news from Miami where seven suspects have been arrested in an apparent plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago. From the AP: The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity [...]

Mother Jesus?

Should there be any doubt about the seriousness of the implications of the recently concluded Episcopal Church convention, consider the following in The Catholic Reporter (HT Amy Welborn): Perhaps the new head of US Episcopal Bishops, Katherine Jefferts Shori, sent a message in her first homily by saying, Mother Jesus. Yes, I would think [...]

Bush is Now Responsible for Abortions

HT to Mary Katharine Ham at Hugh Hewitt.com posting a link to Washington Post editorial from a Dana L. The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn’t want. Well, not literally, but let me explain. And she goes on as to how she got pregnant with a [...]

Legal Illegals?

There is an interesting AP Wire article concerning Hazelton, PA and the city mayor’s efforts to limit the crime and gangs that he and others in the town attribute to illegal immigrants. With tensions rising and its police department and municipal budget stretched thin, this small northeastern Pennsylvania city is about to begin what [...]

Episcopal Schism Update

It appears increasingly likely that there will be a schism between the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, the umbrella under which the Episcopal Church is organized. From the Washington Times: Episcopalians passed a resolution expressing “regret” for consecrating a homosexual bishop in 2003, but not “repentance” as many of the world’s [...]

Schism

As Hugh Hewitt discussed this evening, it would seem that there is a significant likelihood that the Episcopal and Presbyterian Church USA may have to deal with schism in their ranks. The Episcopal Church has elected a woman bishop, who supported the election of Gene Robinson to be the first openly gay bishop in [...]

More Valium Please at the Daily Kos

I will occasionally check out the postings that the Daily Kos to get a sense of the left’s take on current events. Every now and again, one finds a particularly idiotic rant. Consider the reasoned logic of Bill in Portland Maine. He writes a rant entitled “How Wronger Can You Idiots [...]

Reclaiming Life in Europe

If you have not yet read George Weigel’s “The Cube and the Cathedral,” and are interested in various reasons for the moral and cultural decline in Europe, this book is worth the read. The publisher’s note reads in part: Weigel traces the origins of “Europe’s problem” to the atheistic humanism of the nineteenth-century [...]

Michelle Malkin has a piece on the state of the Camp Pendleton 8, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman sitting in a military prison awaiting investigation the possible kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man. The men are in wrist and leg shackles and have not yet been charged with a crime. According [...]

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