As someone who was a working film critic for nearly 20 years—and, I’m pretty sure, the only Baptist to win 2 Catholic Press awards for movie reviews—I probably owe Chicago Sun Time film critic Roger Ebert (and his late partner Tribune critic Gene Siskel) a nod of tribute for popularizing such writing.
Siskel and Ebert were, [...]
Citizen Ebert: Roger’s Culturally Illiterate Tweets
February 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Buffalo Interfaith Bluff
February 8, 2010 By 20 Comments
How the Jews taking part in Buffalo “interfaith efforts” were so easily bamboozled.
Heckled Hard, Obama’s Stump is Strained in Boston as Haiti’s Hell’s on Hold
January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
President Obama carefully weighed his options this weekend. On the front of his desk were The Health of Obamacare and The Health of Haiti. On this day, our president judged Obamacare to be in more urgent need of his surgical superintendency. Haiti can Waiti. At this point, he had already dispatched Hillary, and he has [...]
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Chris Matthews Panics, Plays The Religion Card Reminding Voters Brown Protestant, Coakley Catholic
January 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I must have missed the memo, but exactly when did liberals begin caring about religion?
It appears the Democrats are throwing out all stops in an effort to defeat Scott Brown and retain control of “Ted’s seat.” No insult, ridicule or smear is too low to stoop. Earlier this weekend Chris Matthews fretted the Democrats might not [...]
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Jesus Christ, the Son of Allah
January 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Do Muslims have an exclusive monopoly on the use of the word “Allah,” in describing God?
Malaysia is grappling with that linguistic question, and Muslims in that country are enraged because a court has given its answer: No.
An ethnically divided country comprised of Malay Muslims (who make up about 60% of the population), non-Muslim Chinese, Indians [...]
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Iranians’ Cry for Freedom – by Lisa Daftari
December 29, 2009 By 6 Comments
Daring Iranians continue to take to the streets.
Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges – NYTimes.com
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend. via Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges – NYTimes.com.
Home for the Holidays: Obama Frees 12 More Gitmo Terrorists
December 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Holding true to his campaign promise to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo), Cuba, President Barack Obama has again made the world a little less safe, by releasing twelve more jihadists from that facility over the weekend.
Four Afghans, two Somalis, and six Yemenis were sent back home, presumably to live happily ever after. [...]
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John Bolton: Democracy Under Arrest – WSJ.com
December 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
Universal jurisdiction” sounds like a term plucked from obscure international law journals, but it has pernicious and profoundly antidemocratic consequences in the real world. A British arrest warrant, issued over the weekend in London for former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, shows precisely why. The warrant charged Ms. Livni—the current leader of the Knesset opposition—with [...]
Protesting While White: Chris Matthews’s New PC Crime
December 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Ever since the election of our “post-racial President,” Chris Matthews, not to mention the rest of his cohorts at MSNBC, have done everything they can to drag race to the forefront of American politics—primarily by taking every opportunity to make opposition to Obama all about race.
But on this weekend’s Chris Matthews Show, Chris literally went [...]
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