Full disclosure. Phil Cooke is a friend and occasional colleague. We have frequently found ourselves at the same conference table working for the same media ministry client. I like Phil and find him a smart, funny and unfailingly stimulating guy to talk to. But our friendship doesn’t mean I can’t review his upcoming book […]
Today Iran’s Blusterer-in-Chief declared: “Everybody has understood that Iran is the number one power in the world.” This makes one suspect the man may be operating with a different definition of the term “everybody,” than the rest of us. The same goes for the words, “understood,” “number one,” “power,” and “world.”
The goofy new blog I launched on a whim the other day has apparently gone a little viral. “Chris Matthews’ Leg” has received several thousand hits in the last few hours. It started this morning when Michelle Malkin designated the “Leg” site,  “Best New Blog Name of the Month.” A little later the closely-affiliated Hot Air blog mentioned it as well. Both sites generate huge traffic so not surprisingly other sites begin […]
 I can tell you the precise the moment I became aware of the existence of William F. Buckley, Jr. I was a kid in the late sixties watching the Ed Sullivan Show and Frank Gorshen (who was an impressionist before he was The Riddler) did an outlandish impression of him—head thrown back, lips pursed, tongue flickering, […]
 Here’s one for the “Wow. Didn’t See That Coming” file. Friend-of-Blather Fergus in the UK points me toward this fairly stunning report from the BBC. The Turkish government has deployed some Muslim theologians in an attempt to save Islam from its rapid descent into medieval barbarism and spark what amounts to a Reformation—one that hopes to make the […]
The super-smart James Q. Wilson struggles for an answer in City Journal. An excerpt: Evangelical Christians have a high opinion not just of the Jewish state but of Jews as people. That Jewish voters are overwhelmingly liberal doesn’t seem to bother evangelicals, despite their own conservative politics. Yet Jews don’t return the favor: in one Pew […]
Well, the 700 Club will be airing a long and friendly interview with Hillary tonight in which she talks about her faith. That’s how scary.
There is an article in the most recent issue of Foriegn Policy magazine (subscription req.) that is at once chilling, heartbreaking and maddening. A World Enslaved” by author/journalist Benjamin Skinner tells us, “There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history. Ponder that for a moment. If the typical […]
Rob Long is a comedy writer who started out as a writer on Cheers and who is now, among many other things, an occasional contributor for National Review (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more). Rob has a great media-oriented blog where he recently mentioned a new project he’s working on—something called “Loopy.” Four improv comics get […]
Way back here I made a wise-acre remark about how George Lucas had ruined the Star Wars prequels. Well, while I was perusing movie posters after the post below, I came across this poster for a movie coming “Winter 2009”. . . It’s for a documentary called “The People vs George Lucas.” I’m guessing it’s a […]
