I’m in the middle of a week long odyssey to Arkansas and New Orleans on behalf of the day job.  On Friday night, I had dinner with some colleagues in a little restaurant called Doe’s Eat Place.  The food and ambiance were good, but what got me thinking about politics weren’t the pictures of Clinton [...]

Two things are really bugging me about the whole Beirut situation.  The first was summed up pretty well by Newt Gingrich this morning in USA Today.  Newt began saying in the past week or so that we find ourselves in the early stages of World War III, yet nobody wants to call it for what [...]

This piece from WaPo detailing a slight shift in the ideology of the Southern Baptist leadership would be completely uninteresting if it weren’t for one little passage.  The bulk of the article seems to be E.J. Dionne hoping for the decline of conservative evangelicals and their role in politics.  It ends with his assertion that [...]

I ran across three really interesting reads in my morning trek through the papers.  They have nothing to do with each other, only one touches on politics, and the other two deal with wingmen and surfers respectively.  But they’re all worth a look.
The LA Times has a good piece on the internal debate within the [...]

A friend - and former Navy man - wrote to challenge my post on the Navy Chaplain who is facing a court martial for praying in uniform. He sends along a bunch of additional material related to the case, and takes issue with my original post.
Let’s go back in time and hit some of [...]