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September 2012

September 05, 2012

A lexicon of new racist words

One argument we are already hearing is that if you are against President Obama you...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Tradition & Betrayal

Pastor Douthwaite gave a great sermon on Sunday, on Mark 7:1-13, in which Jesus chastizes...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

Damnatio memoriae

I salute Steven L. Jones, a student at Houston Baptist University, for recalling another of...

July 24, 2012

Egopapism

Francis Beckwith discusses the indignation in some circles about catechists in the Roman Catholic Church...

July 24, 2012

Mainline liberal Protestants look for a new name

It isn't just [some] Southern Baptists--or [some] Missouri Synod Lutherans--who are looking for a new...

July 02, 2012

Obamacare punishments as a tax

Thanks to Todd, who helps me with the technical side of this blog, for stepping...

May 2012

May 04, 2012

Add these words to your vocabulary

The new volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English is out, and here are...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

An inside perspective on the Islamic-friendly Bible

You probably missed the comment on the Islamic-friendly Bibles post last week by David Harriman,...

March 19, 2012

Playing to the local yokels

We've posted about various kinds of condescension to Southerners and Oklahomans (not exactly the same). ...

March 16, 2012

Enough with the “war” metaphor

Charles Lane is sick of the "war" metaphor in political discourse, something all sides are...

March 13, 2012

In defense of politics

"Politics" has become a dirty word. As in: "It's just politics." "They are just playing...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Santorum’s sermons

People are digging up Rick Santorum's religious addresses from years back. And though what he...

February 17, 2012

Iatrogenic government.

I quote this column on rent control because in it George Will teaches us a...

February 13, 2012

Officially re-defining religion

The Constitution carves out space for religion so that it does not fall under government...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

The truth about sexual violence statistics

More ways to lie with statistics. From an article by Christina Hoff Sommers: The Centers...

January 24, 2012

Latin as the language of botany

The field of botany has changed its requirement that new species have their official scientific...

January 06, 2012

Epiphanies

"Epiphany. 3 a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

The last chapter problem

Columnist Ezra Klein introduces a useful concept, the "last chapter problem": In March, the historian...

December 19, 2011

The weekly holidays

What I don't understand is why the militant secularists are expending so much energy to...

November 2011

November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving’s poll numbers are up

Another study by social scientists that proves the perfectly obvious: people like Thanksgiving: Consensus at...

September 2011

September 20, 2011

Evil eyes

As you will have noticed, I am interested in language, idioms, figures of speech, and...

September 20, 2011

Liberals and their language

George Will, picking up on some themes we have blogged about here, notes not only...

September 06, 2011

When names become adjectives

Some people have made such a contribution in one way or the other that their...

September 06, 2011

Economic purgatory

Here is a rather more optimistic assessment of the economy, based on the plans of...

September 02, 2011

Your federal family

The term of choice for "government" at FEMA: your "federal family." Don’t think of it...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

I believe in the “holy Catholic church” or “holy Christian church”?

The great Lutheran blogger Anthony Sacramone--remember Luther at the Movies?--goes from posting whole handfuls of...

August 23, 2011

The Common English Bible

A new Bible translation is now available, the Common English Bible. Check out the website,...

August 23, 2011

The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

Joe Carter, via a string of other blogs, quotes the late Michael Crichton’s 2002 essay...

August 22, 2011

What he said vs. how it was reported

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is quoted in the Tulsa World as saying President Obama wants...

August 18, 2011

Normalizing “minor-attracted persons”

First we accept homosexuality, some social conservatives said, and next we'll accept pedophilia. If we...