Minor Thoughts

Courtesy of The Jerusalem Post’s Blog Central:

”Yale’s chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, another fraternity, garnered infamy in 1967 for branding new pledges with hot coat-hangers… The Yale Daily News reported the incident, quoting one DKE brother who called the branding ‘insignificant’.”

That brother lived on, of course, to be our 43rd president, Mr. …

Tim Challies is a Canadian blogger. Therefore, he’s uniquely qualified to discuss the positives and negatives of the Canadian healthcare system. He doesn’t much like the utopian image painted by Michael Moore.

Now that Sicko, Michael Moore’s latest film has been released, Americans are bound to hear a lot about the wonders of the …

Today’s Capital Times had a heartwarming little article about homeless activists and their endless crusade to wring money out of everyone else.

Members of the Tenant Advocacy Group, or TAG, already know about homelessness. Each was once homeless, or narrowly escaped being out on the street. ”We learned these things from the inside out,” …

Women in Muslim countries are routinely beaten, raped, stoned, and murdered by the men around them. As such, the Muslim world is the main front in the battle for sexual equality. Of course, you wouldn’t know it by the way that American feminists act or speak.

Eve Ensler takes this line of reasoning to …

Earlier this week, Reason Magazine columnist Cathy Young asked why is it still illegal to pay for sex?

Yet prostitution is perhaps the ultimate victimless crime: a consensual transaction in which both parties are supposedly committing a crime, and the person most likely to be charged—the one selling sex—is also the one most likely …

I’ve been listening to Ravi Zacharias’s radio show, Just Thinking, for many months now. Several months ago, while discussing Ethics in the Workplace (part of his ”Faith Under Fire” series), he laid out three rules for distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate pleasures. I found them so thought-provoking and succinct that I wanted to share them:

Anything that …

What a schmuck:

At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery. Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything …

Compare this:

Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from …

Joe, you’ve declared your intention to make your dissatisfaction with your native Republican Party known by aiding the Democrats’ election this year.

But why should dissatisfaction with a party result in your abetting another just as bad, or worse? Why help either of them? Isn’t the practical result of such action ultimately destined to be …

A little black comedy from the Associated Press to start your day off right, Lords and Ladies:

CHICAGO — Nation of Islam officials on Tuesday said Jewish leaders who resigned from a state hate crimes commission rather than serve with one of their members should rejoin the panel or quit criticizing it.

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