I really dig my priest, but he’s from Boston. So, in the readings today he recounts the story of God appointing Joshua to take over where the old man left off. Then he pulls out a children’s book about Harriet Tubman, called Moses, about her faith and her mission to free first herself, then her children, then hundreds of other slaves. Fine. As I’ve mentioned before, blacks’ association with Israel

Via Gateway Pundit: The “War on Terror” is losing the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is fading away, slowly if not deliberately being replaced by a new administration bent on repairing the U.S. image among Muslim nations. Since taking office less than two weeks ago, President Barack Obama has talked broadly of the “enduring struggle against terrorism

Via Redstate: The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next

Yesterday, I had a Facebook chat with Andrew Breitbart, who’s remarkably accessible that way. You may remember from way back when you read Sidney’s “Apology for Poetry,” that the most excerpted phrase is that poetry must “delight and instruct.” Sidney’s argument is that those who resort to philosophy are the already converted–the choir, if you will–and that the advantage of poetry is that it clothes similar hot ideas in attractive