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Joe Carter has cobbled together a list of stupidisms by a master of the genre, Pat Robertson . (He was inspired by this article , which nea...

Paula Cohen reviews Diane Ravitch's The Language Police , noting its balanced portrayal of both conservative and liberal moralistic bow...

For the Yankees Do not go gentle into that good night, Hot bats should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the li...

Whoa there, fundamentalist podnuh . [thanks to The Obscure Store ]

Why do pundits care at all for national polls? Our electoral college system is not a national referendum; each state race polls independent...

In some of my classes, we've been discussing the election, writing our own campaign platforms, forming political parties, and preparing ...

I've been wasting too much time at The Evangelical Outpost , because Joe Carter's interests are as eclectic as mine are, even though...

I didn't liveblog the last "debate," nor have I yet commented on it. I've been letting it steep and stew in my mind, mull...

Yep. George W. Bush is a pawn of the Antichrist. But don't take my word for it; trust Michael Evans of WorldNetDaily . When President ...

Timothy Sandefur points us to this article on a brand-new phenomenon: an atheist summer camp. John Ashmen of Christian Camping Internatio...

Amanda Fortini says what I've been saying to myself (and to my wife, bless her) since I started seeing women dressed up in the worst fas...

Sometimes teaching drives you crazy . [thanks to the obscure store ]

One of my promises is going to be Social Security reform, and you bet, we need to take a trillion dollars out of that $2.4 trillion surplus....

This is just too weird to believe. Or is it? Watch for the Matrix bulge in the last debate. If it's not there, put on your tinfoil hat...

My paternal grandfather always laments the rise of "Republican plutocrats." Whom do the plutocrats really vote for, though? You ...

What has scores of professors all riled up?

Add to the blogroll Jason Kuznicki's Positive Liberty , if not for its "classical liberal perspective," then for its emotional...

Timothy Noah of Slate, fearing that he'll sound like a conspiracy theorist, does a little Googling and discovers that yes, in fact, Bus...

Do as I say, not as I do . More here . However this shakes down, the prospect is more than a little unsettling. Blogger beware.

So the Afghan elections are going well, so far, and the primary challenger to Hamid Karzai has rescinded his call for a boycott , as long as...