Lexington. Selma. Crawford? 40 years ago, speechwriter Richard Goodwin wrote these inspiring words for President Lyndon B. Johnson, so he could introduce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Congress: ”At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was at Appomatox. So it was

So I’m outside with my kid a few minutes ago, torturing the poor little guy by making him chase a foam-rubber baseball all over the lawn like some bumbling, two-legged Border Collie—when suddenly it hits me:  war really is hell! Damn you, Hollywood liberals!  Damn you for complicating everything!

1.  The brilliant Anthony Perez-Miller, a PhD candidate in history and philosophy of science (whose dissertation happens to be an analysis of the structural flaws in ID arguments) weighs in on the evolution and ID debate that continues engage the blogosphere.  For those who need reminding, my position on the matter is here. 2.  Tom Elia writes, “DNC chair Howard Dean once again has said that having Social Security personal

From the WSJ Online (subscription only, so I’ll excerpt at length) Liberals have been beating their collective breast in recent years over the Bush administration’s post-9/11 assault on civil liberties. But Michigan Democrats—from Gov. Jennifer Granholm to the State Board of Canvassers—have joined ranks with a radical, 1960s-style Trotskyite group to deny state residents the most basic of all rights: the right to vote. The group, which lives in a

From the International Herald Tribune: The British government, moving against suspected Islamic extremists after the July bombings, said Thursday that 10 foreign nationals seen as a “threat to national security” had been seized for deportation. The foreigners, thought to include Abu Qatada, once described as the spiritual ambassador of Al Qaeda in Europe, were detained in early-morning raids across Britain by police forces in London, Leicester, Luton and the West