A common criticism of journalists is that they have certain biases in selecting stories. Their reporting of certain events or issues are not necessarily biased, but rather their choice of the story at all reveals their true bias. And so my curiosity was piqued yesterday when I came across this solicitation...

In a final farewell essay published in a recent edition of The Economist, Tony Blair wrote the following: In this age, foreign policy is not an interesting distraction from the hard slog of domestic reform. It is the element that describes a nation’s face to the world at large, forms the perceptions...

H/T: BabyTrollBlog (note: strong language and other potentially NSFW content on that blog)

No, it’s not a prop from Battlestar Galactica – it’s a Tabernacle! Anglo-Catholic Ruminations’ latest, a “Terrible Tabernacle Contest,” is looking for “blasphemous, inappropriate, weird, or just plain ugly Tabernacles.” The Spirit of Vatican II materialized?...

Everyone remembers the first time they fell in love with a book. It’s a work you can return to again and again, only to once more be astonished at what missed before and go to bed genuinely delighted that you discovered it this time around. For me this book is Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies....

Blog neighbor Joe Carter of The Evangelical Outpost teamed up with Jared Bridges to create a new website titled “BLOGS for Fred“. The two brought me on as a fellow editor. In the words of its “about” page: Blogs for Fred is online community and group blog covering the campaign...

Reason magazine has posted a good review of Michael Moore’s latest film, Sicko.

For the first time, Fred Thompson is leading the field for the GOP nomination in a major poll. The Rasmussen Reports poll released last Tuesdsay gave Thompson a 1-point lead over Rudy Giuliani, capping a 16-point surge over three weeks. And Thompson hasn’t even announced his candidacy yet. The...

My post titled “Are cell phones killing Ron Paul’s campaign?” was noted by Andrew Sullivan, who asks, “I wonder if libertarians are more likely to have cell-phones than others?” The Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum will have none of it and says that pollsters are more...

I am by default skeptical of all government authority, and any trust or justification of government power most often carries the burden of proof. No where is this more evident than with police force. The tendency of state legislatures to pass nanny-state laws that infringe upon civil liberties irks me...