1. The Baltimore Ravens will defeat the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl, 24-7. Ray Lewis will not murder anyone in the postgame celebration. 2. Justice John Paul Stevens will retire from the bench. Democrats will demand a more liberal judge than “that Ford-appointed Republican” in...

Taking out the trash for 2006: Rot in hell, you filthy bastards. And there’s still time for one more.

A Circuit Court judge in St. Louis will soon find out whether Justice O’Connor’s continued alarms of diminished judicial independence are true. St. Louis Circuit Court judge Robert Dierker’s new book, The Tyranny of Tolerance: A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the...

His humility and moderate leadership were just the thing this nation needed after going through its worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War. While he still gets dismissed by historians, I believe that his steady, nondescript leadership played a big part in turning the nation around after Watergate....

(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) “I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.” “The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political...

“This is how the birth of Jesus came about: His mother was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to...

Here’s the official NORAD Santa tracking website, if you’re into that sort of thing.

“The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was God made man — that the second person of the Godhead became the ’second man’ (I Cor. 15:47), determining human destiny, the second representative head of the race, and that He took humanity without loss of deity,...

Today is the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the end of our joyful anticipation of the birth of the Messiah. Mary, who was chosen as the blessed mother of the Incarnate Word, expressed this joy in the moving words of Luke 1:46b-55 (ESV): My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for...

I’ve posted a lot about the Deadweight Loss of Christmas, which may lead some of you to wonder whether I habitually reduce the generous spirit of the season to cold calculation. The answer is yes, and I’ll elaborate a bit further here with a conundrum our more festive readers might help...