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May 2014

May 01, 2014

Palin and Baptism: It’s simple, folks. She’s wrong.

Sarah Palin is not the same woman in 2014 that she was in 2008. Sarah...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Among the Merciless and Perpetually Outraged, Mind Your Soul – UPDATED

With Meanwhile, Back in America Peggy Noonan wrote a truly excellent column this week, one...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

Obama meets with Biden, Clinton _ UPDATED

Apparently today President Obama met with his gaffe-stricken veep and his Secretary of State. A...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

Bristol Palin at Patheos?

Wow, when Kathryn Jean Lopez arrived here in the Catholic Portal, we thought that was...

April 2011

April 20, 2011

Teen Suicide, Media Excess, Palin and Bullies, Again

A horrible story made even worse by our excesses of media. Try to fully engage...

April 17, 2011

Sarah Palin in Wisconsin: Wit, Clarity, Coherence

I finally got to watch the video of Sarah Palin's speech, which is up in...

March 2011

March 22, 2011

The Toxicity of Idolatry – UPDATED

My Tuesday column at First Things is up, and today we're talking about the strange...

January 2011

January 11, 2011

Why Do they Hate Palin So?

The move from First Things has made old posts difficult to find in search engines...

December 2010

December 21, 2010

OSV 2010: The 8 Biggest Stories

It's a wee bit early, but Our Sunday Visitor has posted a look at the...

November 2010

November 09, 2010

Well played, Palin

In my continuing quest to remain a dispassionate observer of Sarah Palin (even if it...

November 05, 2010

On Palin; No Animus, No Condescension

In my piece yesterday at Pajamas Media I wrote: . . .thrust-and-parry between a candidate...

October 2010

October 20, 2010

O'Donnell "stupid" on 1st Amendment; um…wait

I think the most nefarious and reprehensible game the press plays--beyond spiking stories to protect...

July 2010

July 25, 2010

Journolist: Listening So You Don't Have To!

Git along little dawgies Over at RCP Jay Cost is asking what's so bad about...

May 2010

May 13, 2010

Sarah Palin is Alive! – UPDATED

Longtime readers know that, while there is much that I admire about Sarah Palin, I...

April 2010

April 10, 2010

"Where's the Left's Palin?"

Taylor Marsh, who is a very smart woman whose knee does not jerk, asks the...

February 2010

February 24, 2010

G. Washington, S. Brown & Idealism

This is both interesting and sad: Over at dotCommonweal, Robert Imbelli had a brief post...

February 16, 2010

Family Guy goaded Palin into a mistake

I didn't see the whole episode, but this scene in Family Guy has apparently gotten...

December 2009

December 11, 2009

Yep, She's a Natural!

H/T As Camille Paglia said - Palin is a natural. Which is one reason why...

November 2009

November 19, 2009

Palin Press: Putzes in Print

Love Sarah Palin or not, one has to admit the press is so undone by...

November 17, 2009

Palin on Limbaugh

I did not get to hear it, but the transcript is here. My take on...

September 2009

September 10, 2009

Oh, nuts! Obama Speech Reax

I have not one, not two but three things I have to start writing for...

August 2009

August 18, 2009

Klavan, "Health" Panels & Goldsteins – UPDATED

I'm still in a retreat after-glow that has me only half attending to the world...

July 2009

July 14, 2009

Palin, Obama & Not quite pulled together yet

I know it must seem like I'm being lazy and not attending to my work...

June 2009

June 11, 2009

Palin's Pipeline Gets Last Laugh?

With the countless words being written about David Letterman's foolish, boorish and uncalled for "jokes"...

June 11, 2009

Letterman's Lame Non-Apology -UPDATED

Hey, David Letterman wasn't making sexual jokes about the 14-year old! He was just branding...

June 10, 2009

Lileks on Letterman on Palin – UPDATED

If you have missed it, the old rule that you don't go after a politicians...

February 2009

February 03, 2009

Virginity, Chastity, Nunstuff

Got an email from someone today wondering why I did not write about Candlemas. Feb...

January 2009

January 14, 2009

Longest. Linkaround. Evah.

Settle in for a long 'un, kiddies. Start here (h/t Ann Althouse): Hey, according to...

December 2008

December 29, 2008

Presidential Workouts: Bush creepy; Obama a godling

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper,...

December 19, 2008

"Movement" voters and other things

Just thought you might be interested in this - a buncha Catholics sittin' around gassing...