Is Christianity Really a Political Movement? A Brief Historical View

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. who is archbishop of Denver, at this mornings Catholic Prayer Breakfast;

We need to understand that in the early Church, those words – “Jesus is Lord” – were a political statement. The emperor claimed to

KJL notes the MOVEON ad, showing Frist blowing up the Capitol and asks:”WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? ”

Clearly, KJ, you have not been listening to Howard Dean or Err America of late. This kind of extreme

In response to some E-mail;
Look, let’s lay this filibuster thing wide open.

The Democrats got handed their butt in a basket last election… particuarly Tom Daschle. They got themselves ousted for one reason: Their obstructionism.

The voters got tired

Stanley Kurtz at The Corner:

“Contemporary liberalism seeks to diminish Christianity and promote secularism. And liberals sometimes do this in ways that play into the hands of Islamic terrorists. I suppose I could be talking about Newsweek, but I’m

I had a buddy come to me this morning with a clipping from an old article he’d found in the Chronic Democrat… err Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle. They no longer have it online of course, but I did manage to

Ed over at Captain’s Quarters:

“True to his word, Reid has started using all available procedural tactics to stage a temper tantrum, but now it’s just at the mere introduction of nominees for debate. What happened to Robert Byrd’s

Beckwith has a great zinger and an accusation of a double standard, and an interesting question all rolled into one:

What if it turned out that the guards at Gitmo did in fact flush a Koran down the toilet, but

AP is reporting: “BURBANK, Calif. – Actor Frank Gorshin, the impressionist with 100 faces best known for his Emmy-nominated role as The Riddler on the old ‘Batman’ television series, has died. He was 72”

Sad.
According to the article,

ABC in Baltimore reports that yesterday was the day the very last Astro Van rolled of the Baltimore assembly line.

OK, not much for YOU, I guess… but a look down the right column should tell you why it means

The Running Conservative has had a death in the family.

Stop by and drop Kate a kind word; she could use one.

What is the world’s record for text messaging? How many can you send in a month? Gizmodo seems to have the answer.

You’ll forgive me if I’m less than impressed with Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, who yesterday complained we need to be more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims, saying in part:

“The apology and retraction are not enough.  “They

I’ve gotten several bits of mail within the last few hours, in response to my comments on the Newsweak Koran Flushing idiocy.

Several of them point to the idea that when I’m talking about Newsweak, I’m talking about Michael Isikoff…

Boortz Notes Newsweak’s claim that journistic standards didn’t get dropped in this “Koran Flushing” nonsnese.

Boortz suggests that if that statement is true, their journalistic standards are best expressed thus:

* The Bush Administration didn’t rely on faulty intelligence in

James at Outside The Beltway :

“Newsweek has formally retracted its report that American soldiers flushed a Koran down a toilet to induce prisoners at Guantnamo to talk. In fact, the documentary evidence indicates just the opposite: an almost absurd