Washington Redskins lose to the hapless Detroit Lions, thus ending the Lions’ 19 game losing streak. Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to receive TARP funds.
I was telling my boss, Robert Sloan (former Baylor president and current president of HBU), about Michael Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story. We briefly discussed an interview of Moore by the Wall Street Journal yesterday in which Moore…
Mike Huckabee may have won the straw poll at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, but Tim Pawlenty may have done himself the most good. I saw the major contenders give their speeches and thought, like Mark Hemingway of…
As a panelist at this year’s Family Research Council Values Voter Summit (going on right now at the Omni Shoreham hotel in D.C.), I can’t help but reflect on the strange fears of the American left. Garry Wills’ charge…
Mike Pence led off the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit this morning. While he, like most other conservatives, decried the nation’s current direction (“energetic bureaucracy and weak, ineffective diplomacy”), he also sounded a note of optimism as he insisted…
The point has been made by outstanding thinkers like Stephen Carter and Richard John Neuhaus that the New York-Washington, D.C. establishment eats up left wing religion and declares it delicious. Give a radical a cross and we have activists bravely…
Has Tiki Barber been exiled from the studio? I suppose the room was getting crowded. Tony Dungy makes a nice addition. Rodney Harrison, on the other hand, seems almost needlessly provocative, which is an accomplishment considering Olbermann’s presence.
Advertising in the NFL telecasts, General Motors features its new chairman Ed Whitacre promising buyers that the GM cars are superior to the competition. Or, in Iacocca speak, “If you can find a better car, buy it.” So what? Right?…
My new book, The End of Secularism, came out a few days ago. I doubt it would have been written had Wlady Pleszczynski not reached out to a young writer several years ago and given him a chance. The book…
Much of the discussion regarding the government health care proposals has been directed toward the prudence of the ideas. But what about doctors and their moral rights in the process? I took that on in the latest Acton Commentary. Here’s…