Lucy Schouten
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where–” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which…
Arab Israeli Christians of military age will now receive a non-binding invitation to volunteer for the Israeli army, partly because of efforts by an Arab Israeli priest. The Greek Orthodox priest, Father Gabriel Naddaf of Nazareth, has faced tremendous opposition from…
The deposed president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak was convicted of graft and sentenced to three years in prison today. You read right—graft. It’s a little like getting Al Capone for tax evasion, although Mubarak doesn’t have anything near the popular…
It’s primary election day in Kentucky, the day the state’s Republicans decide whether they will send a long-time Senate minority leader or a Tea Party freshman to face off with Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes. Mitch McConnell is the Senate…
We live in a culture of offense. In both public and private, people are always on the watch for some statement or group—somewhere—whose ideas might possibly run counter to their own. This weekend, those who have drenched themselves in the…
It’s funny how screaming for tolerance makes it hard to hear anyone else’s point of view. So often the most ostentatiously “open-minded” maintain their narrow view of tolerance by saying the opposing view is out of style, out of season,…
An illegal immigrant on the run from federal immigration agents has taken up residence in Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona. The congregation welcomed Daniel Nyoy Ruiz and his family on Tuesday, according to Tucson News Now: Pastor Alison Harrington said…
MARGARET THATCHER HAS BEEN in office for longer than any other British prime minister in the twentieth century. She is the most militantly conservative of any British conservative leader, and yet she has done more than anyone to change the…
