Lawrence Henry
Most people, I think, look at churches as having always been there. They are part of the landscape, like rocks. They show up on street corners, on key urban lots. They sit in the midst of buildings that have been…
John, what does that make of President Bush, who signed McCain-Feingold in the supposition that it would be overturned by the Supreme Court? A prediction: Sales of easily-concealable small handguns will increase, as more people decide to carry surreptitiously and…
James, Gonzales has reminded me of no one so much as Bush himself post-Katrina: “You’re doin’ a heckuva job, Brownie.” We now know what George W.’s main fault is. He does not know how to appoint or monitor executives. His…
Phil, points well taken about Romney’s views. That said, each candidate has a simple task: To be seen and heard widely and identifiably in a unified way in the way that he desires to be seen. The Weekly Standard’s long,…
Last Saturday, NPR’s Weekend America broadcast a story titled “No More Weekends at the Mall?” the import of which was that many malls — “about 40 around the country” — have banned teens from their premises on key weekend hours,…
I should have noted that Free Republic runs on West Coast time, hence the opening post was made at 10:14 Eastern time.
It appears that Free Republic had the best moment-by-moment reporting of what was discovered on the Virginia Tech campus, with the post “Shots Fired at Virgina Tech” posted at 7:14 a.m. A parenthetical add-on to the headline says (“AP: 33…
Nice writing, Shawn. Remember, though, that one of the West Coast’s most prominent conservatives started as a weatherman and ended up asking who wanted to buy a vowel: Pat Sajak.
The blogs buzz with discussions of the current crop of presidential aspirants on the Republican side. Who said what about guns, about abortion, about campaign finance reform? Who believed what, when? Who espoused what point of view at what stage…
Aye-aye, Jim! Perfectly said. Global warming can’t come soon enough for me. I have a date to play pool with my old college roomie in Manchester, NH, Thursday, and he just e-mailed me to say it looked like we were…
