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The following is also from Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live? One clause in particular provoked a very interesting thought. I have put it in italics. The Reformation was certainly not a golden age. It was…
My father sent this article to me last week. It's remarkably well-written, brief, very well-stated, succinct, clearly-phrased, and full of devastating evidence. The entire edifice of moral relativism, a foundation of…
From Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America by Harry L. Watson. (This is assigned reading for my history class.) "Once a province of Mexico, Texas had been settled by American slaveholders seeking new te…
I just got back from watching Gladiator after Navs. Wow.
Best of the Web Today - February 24, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO By George, Maybe He's Right!President Bush yesterday visited Germany, a country whose government and population have been markedly hostile to the Bush admin…
Excerpted from How Should We Then Live?, Francis Schaeffer: The Bible gives a different way to come to God from that teaching which had grown up in the church through the previous centuries. The Reformers went back t…
Happiness is... A perfect Towers of Hanoi program, with step-by-step display, written entirely in MIPS.
Seen on a bumper sticker this morning: "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun."
Francis Schaeffer, "Art and the Bible" Many modern artists, it seems to me, have forgotten the value that art has in itself. Much modern art is far too intellectual to be great art. I am thinking, for example, of such…
Anne Elliot Which Jane Austen Character are you? (female)brought to you by Quizilla Well, well, whaddya know. (Yes, I will go work on my computer program now. What, more Towers of Hanoi?!)
Every time I look at the forecasted high for today, it has risen from the last time I looked at it. The first time I looked, I think on Friday, it was for 77°. Now it's 82°. This is still February, right? Not that I'…
Best of the Web Today - February 18, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO How to Win Conservatives: Become More Liberal!A Boston Globe editorial offers advice to Democrats who "are worried that the party's traditional support fo…
A novel approach to Bible-story-telling: "I don't know if the name of Lot's wife is familiar to you, and if you were told about her rather remarkable finish.I may not have got the facts right, but the story, as I heard …
Best of the Web Today - February 14, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO In With the Inn CrowdFrom an Associated Press dispatch about Howard Dean: During a meeting Friday with the Democratic black caucus, Dean praised black …
In response to critics who scorn children's stories because they are not 'adult': Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about…
From The Lion That Wouldn't Eat Meat "Earlier this century, A female African lion, born and raised in America, lived her entire lifetime of nine years without ever eating meat.1 In fact, her owners, Georges and Margaret…
If there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth. John Wesley
"....If to love Story is to love excitement then I ought to be the greatest lover of excitement alive. But the fact is that what is said to be the most 'exciting' novel in the world, The Three Musketeers, makes no appea…
Best of the Web Today - February 10, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO What Would We Do Without Studies?"Study Finds Unloaded, Locked-Up Guns Safer"--headline, (Portland) Oregonian, Feb. 9 What Would We Do Without Centcom?"Pen…
There are many paths to Jesus. There is one path to God. That one path is Jesus. "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you wo…
The below items are from yesterday's and today's Best of the Web, respectively. I really liked yesterday's, but today's follow-up - all from readers - really takes the cake. British Boo-BirdNot everyone liked Anheuse…
Best of the Web Today - February 8, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO Other Than the Six Million Murdered Jews, the Resemblance Is Uncanny"The Virginia Senate yesterday approved a constitutional amendment that defines traditi…
According to UN projections, Latvia will lose 44 percent of its population by 2050 as a result of demographic trends. In Estonia, the population is expected to shrink by 52 percent, in Bulgaria 36 percent, in Ukraine 3…
Best of the Web Today - February 7, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO Reporting Bad News Before It HappensCheck out this Associated Press dispatch from Baghdad: It's too early to say whether last weekend's vote has dealt a…
I just got this in an email: 'One morning, I was called to pick up my son at the school nurse's office. When I walked through the main entrance, I noticed a woman, curlers in her hair, wearing pajamas. "Why are you dr…
Best of the Web Today - February 3, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO In the Beginning"How did life, in its infinite complexity, come to be?" asks Newsweek in a subheadline. "A controversial new theory called 'intelligent des…
Yet another Nicholas Nickleby excerpt: " 'To be sure,' sobbed Miss La Creevy; 'it's very true, and I'm an ungrateful, impious, wicked little fool, I know.' "With that, the good soul fell to crying afresh, and, endeavou…
Well, thank you Sophia, for helping me out. (Do I have to thank you, Andy? Everest, indeed! ) I guess I'll have to go bug people in person now. On that note, here's a riveting comparison to start your day: ...co…
Your Opinion Requested! I'm working through What Color Is Your Parachute? (an excellent career and job-finding book), and I've come to a part where I need the input of Other People. That's you! Yes, every one of you …
Another extract from my devotional: In the early years of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln became so angered at the inactivity of Union commander George McClellan that the president wrote his commanding general this one…