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  Something to think about. Whether these chang...

   One of the striking things about some varieties of Christian discourse in the United States is recurrent claims of persecution.  This was...

  I don't subscribe to all of this, but it does provide a useful perspective JHB Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America By Frank Schae...

George Orwell (pen name for Eric Blair 1903-1950) is recognized as one of the great English language prose stylists of the first half of the...

Gentlebeings we are watching the death throes of a great political party.  Among my other youthful peccadillos was being a Young Republican....

On a recent trip to England, I made pilgrimage to Karl Marx's grave.  Two things struck me as incredibly ironic about the gravesite.  Th...

 Last Sunday Brad Delong commented on his blog, " Yet another demonstration of the fact that sometime in 2000 we entered a strange w...