This sobering clip brought to mind the Parable of the Sower (Luke 8:4-8, 11-15): 4And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: 5“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and...

Several high profile celebrities have passed away in recent days – Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and even Billy Mays, to name a few. But it was the death of a relatively unknown man, U.S. Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser, which was the most powerful to me. Col. Reusser is the most decorated...

Arguably the most famous Hoosier of all time, Michael Jackson, has passed away. In his honor I’d ask that you leave links to some of your favorite videos featuring the King of Pop.

Today’s required reading comes from Radley Balko, writing in Reason, about the liberating effect of free markets and the counter-culture aimed at denigrating it.

As is now being widely reported, Gov. Mark Sanford has returned from a mysterious absence to announce he has been unfaithful to his wife. I have been an ardent and outspoken advocate of Gov. Sandord for nearly two and a half years (see here, here and here), so these most recent developments are particularly...

Last summer I read about a disturbing story from Berwyn Heights, Maryland, where the mayor’s dogs were murdered in a SWAT raid gone bad. Some criminal on the west coast mailed a large package of marijuana to a random address–which turned out to be the mayor’s house–and when the...

It’s been said that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Sadly, one such giant passed away last week. Darrell “Shifty” Powers, made famous for his portrayal in the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, passed away of natural causes at the age of 86. “We (the German soldiers and I)...

In D.C.’s conservative commuter paper last week (yes, we have two free commuter papers), the CATO Institute’s Gene Healy wrote about the lessons for the right in the wake of the George Tiller murder and the Holocaust Museum attack. As they did in the 1990s, the left is trying to link acts...

It may be a bit untimely to dredge up an artifact from our election last year, but this quote from Mark DeMoss has bugged me for a while: “Too many evangelicals and religious conservative are too preoccupied with values and faith and pay no attention to competence. We don’t apply this approach...

I remain dismayed by mainstream media coverage (or lack thereof) of the sham elections in Iran, but the Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins does a fabulous job of sizing it all up. He ends with a quote from Matt Yglesias which is worth reprinting here: Whenever I find myself talking about new media...