Unca Darrell

MARCH 31 / Style, usage, journalism

Begging the Question (from a guest blogger)

One could differentiate the two cases on the ground that the Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional while ObamaCare is not. But that begs the question. Until the Supreme Court has ruled, the constitutionality of both laws is a matter of dispute. (James Taranto, "Best of the Web Today: Obama Disengages," Wall Street Journal (wsj.com), March 24, 2011)  

 

MARCH 29 / BHO, Brazil, oil, and sensible libs

WHEN WAS the last time an American president stood before an audience in a foreign country and announced that he looked forward to importing more of its oil? Answer: . . .

 

MARCH 28 / Assigned readings on marriage

THERE WILL be a test.

WHAT MAKES pre-adulthood something new is its radical reversal of the sexual hierarchy. Among pre-adults, women are . . . 

MARCH 20 / Dietrich Bonhoeffer

FOR BONHOEFFER, the term "religion" meant a false substitute for true faith, so "religionless Christianity" meant . . . 

MARCH 16 / More lawless conduct by the administration

[THE SECRETARY] of the Interior ordered a moratorium on all drilling at depths greater than 500 feet in the Gulf of Mexico. The plaintiffs . . . challenged the lawfulness of the moratorium. On June 22, 2010, this [court] . . . ordered the [administration] not . . . 

MARCH 14 / Share and learn

 

 

HERE ARE my entries for the share-and-learn segment of tonight's meeting of the Kingwood Photo Club. 

MARCH 12 / Time to give

IT'S A GOOD DAY -- and what day isn't? -- to give some of our money to help others. And a good way to help folks in Japan is . . .

 

MARCH 8 / Mike Pence on the presidency

WHAT [THE NATION] says -- informed by its long history, impelled by the laws of nature and nature's God -- is that we as a people are not to be ruled and not to be commanded. It says that the president should never forget this: that he has not risen above us, but is merely one of us, chosen by ballot, dismissed after his term, tasked not to . . .

MARCH 4 / McClay on Limbaugh

GIVEN [RUSH] Limbaugh's talents and achievements, one would have thought that even his detractors would have an interest in knowing more about him: who he is, where he came from, and why he has acquired and kept such a large and devoted following. But in fact, there has been a remarkable lack . . .