ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I f Christians are people who try to apply the teachings of Jesus to life, and the word has no meaning if this isn’t the case, they are on...

An old Monty Python skit. It's not without the usual dosage of sexism or ageism or violence as funny, but I love the idea of old women ...

My feeble attempt to say something witty about the New Orleans City Council meeting which decided to "demolish a vast swatch of subsidi...

Some Christians believe that Interstate 35 is the highway mentioned in the Bible: According to CNN, the small contingent of churchgoers bel...

Eva Ósk Arnardóttir had been looking forward to her shopping and Christmas break in New York City with a few other Icelandic women. But whe...

Where to begin? Perhaps by noting that soap opera is what our public conversation most seems to love . I don't really want to write a...

A new study tells us something that is not unexpected: You are more likely to die when you don't have health insurance: Ward and collea...

Is this one : Stephanie Sinclair took it in Afghanistan. The couple in the picture are going to get married. He is forty years old, she is...

I'm playing one of those end-of-year games which tells people, firmly and authoritatively, what will be in fashion next year and what wi...

It's the time of giving and then basking in the pleasant glow one gets from doing good deeds. If you can afford it, the Pretty Bird Wom...

The Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security has just finished hearing the case of Jamie Leigh Jones. A Justice Dep...

This is a fairly good diagnosis of the disease the U.S. housing markets suffers from. It is not a head cold or even a bout of flu, by the ...

This gossipy little article about the First and Second Ladies of Kenya reminds us all that it is not only the Muslims (and some Mormons) wh...

If I had aimed for the effect of maximal sarcasm : A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta — the ver...

The FCC with its runaway head has relaxed the media ownership rules . This means that Rupert Murdoch can determine an even larger portion o...

In this pre-Christmas season the "three wise men" among the conservative political talk-show hosts are all retracting their testic...

Anne Applebaum gives American feminists a spanking for not doing enough to liberate the women of Saudi Arabia. She uses the example of the ...

Nava is a Princeton undergraduate, very active in conservative causes. He felt that those conservative causes were not getting enough atten...

Chris Matthews fears that Hillary Clinton might have one of those, and that she will use it to snap off the penises of all the boys. Or per...

Those of us who wrote a lot about the scope for election fraud in the 2004 elections got awarded tinfoil hats. (Tinfoil is supposed to keep...