On Saturday, President Bush gave the commencement address at Miami Dade College. Instead of simply giving the usual platitudes about going out into the world and making a difference, the President spent about half his time giving a political speech, in which he trumpeted the cause of immigrants and pushed for immigration reform. [...]

I’ve thought about this a lot, and I just don’t get it.
In 1979, Marilee Jones applied for a job at the MIT Admissions Office. It was an entry level position to work with a group whose goal was to increase the number of women at MIT. At the time, Ms. Jones probably needed [...]

The House passed the contentious Iraq War funding bill yesterday, and the Senate is expected to follow suit today. Now, I have mixed feelings about this bill; on the one hand, I’ve always been a skeptic of remaining in Iraq, on the other hand some kind of funding bill needs to be passed, and [...]

This week, the governor of Oregon is limiting his food to what he would be able to purchase if he were a food stamp recipient. I think this a tremendously cool publicity stunt to help raise awareness about poverty. It would be great if everybody tried it, just to see what the poor [...]

Periodically, I check on a variety of conservative Christian websites, mostly because I always find it fascinating which issues they focus on. Anyway, two things jumped out at me at the Family Research Council, both dealing with political correctness and homosexuality, so I thought I would address them together.

I couldn’t find the actual opinion piece that this article is referring to, but the summary of it is still very interesting. Basically, why did flags fly at half mast for the VaTech shootings, but not for soldiers slain in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps there is a qualitative difference between soldiers [...]

There is an interesting case of academic freedom coming out of Emmanuel College in Boston. A professor was fired for his classroom behavior.
The demonstration was as follows: the professor holds up a magic marker and asks his students to pretend it was a gun. He then points it at student in the room [...]

This post is a delightful mix of computer geek reference and political commentary. Both make it very appropriate for some who frequent this site.

To be honest, I’ve been trying to avoid coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy, although I have caught some of it. I don’t care about the video messages or past of the killer. I don’t want to know about the time-line of the killings or see a 3D mock-up of the killer’s route [...]

Can somebody please explain to me what the pro-choice folks are all up in arms about this supreme court decision? From what I understand, the supreme court upheld a ban on a particular procedure (partial birth abortion). They didn’t allow a ban on abortion, or make it significantly harder to get one.
Medical procedures [...]