Feeling Old

Rod Dreher reflecting on “Happy Days” and “Welcome Back Kotter.” Like Rod, I watched “Happy Days” as a kid, and I thought it seemed like ancient history.
Well, he says, the program began in 1974, and was set in 1955. That would be like a program airing today set in 1989.

Church and State in NY

Morristown, NY, officials in First Amendment dispute, charged with selective prosecution of Amish members for alleged building code violations.

The Church Obama Calls Home

On one level, you’d think it would be a non-story. Should a politician be judged on something dumb his pastor said?
But that isn’t the story. The story is that Barack Obama has attended for twenty years a church where this is what is regularly preached from the pulpit, without registering discomfort. There are other churches, [...]