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Here’s Barack Obama’s résumé: four years in the U.S. Senate, eight in the Illinois Senate, senior lecturer on con law at the University of Chicago, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, associate for three years at a 12-attorney law firm, positions on the boards of various foundations in Chicago. He has no academic publications to his name - ( Read more... )

What a momentous day for Spain! Its football team won the Euro Cup for its first major title in forty-four years, and as neurotic as so many people are about "The Beautiful Game," which is the only major sport in most countries, this title means more to the Spanish than it would to anyone else because the team practically constitutes the national ( Read more... )

It's New Year's, and that means it's time for an omnibus blog post about the year that was.

( Discernment Blues )

This is my attempt to explain the current presidential race to a politically ignorant friend ( Read more... )

LSU 28, Florida 24 ( Read more... )

Then the LORD said: "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out ( Read more... )

My writer friend Andrew is looking for reading material, so he asked us to pitch him our favorite book. This was my response ( Read more... )

The term "movie star" is so cliché that one can easily forget it’s actually a metaphor. Yesterday, Steve Carell reminded me. He effortlessly illuminates all his scenes and attracts us to his presence. “Dan in Real Life” is a straightforward movie with familiar set pieces, but it feels fresh thanks to its star’s unique abilities. I simply love ( Read more... )

Formula 1 is the most political sport in the world, and the 2007 season was no exception. The U. S. Grand Prix was an occasion for haggling between F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone and Indianapolis Motor Speedway leader Tony George over future installments of the race. Ecclestone implied the race was a gift to Americans because the league didn't need ( Read more... )