What we have here is someone who is arguing that it’s “censorship” not to teach criticisms that are laughably wrong while omitting crucial information. Why should we let someone completely ignorant of evolution dictate how we teach it? We wouldn’t let someone who couldn’t count tell us how to teach math. And […]

I’m at home, so I get to read the Missoulian daily. That means I come across Mona Charen columns. Today’s was pretty interesting.
America the greedy and cruel
The school movie. What a glorious thing it was to a student eager to avoid real work. The lights were dimmed, and nothing was expected from us except to […]

It seems there was some sort of IP routing error causing my site to be down for at least today, maybe for some of yesterday, too. It looks like it’s fixed now.

Cpl. Raleigh Smith
December 7th, 1983 - December 23rd, 2004

I haven’t been able to get to Left in the West for a couple days now. Anyone else having that problem?

No, really.
This really is getting absurd. I truly don’t get why people get all up in arms over “happy holidays” or the removal of some Christmas carols in school. I’m of the opinion that Christmas trees and most carols are fine, considering Christmas is a federal holiday because of its more secular elements like Santa […]

March 21st, they say.
There are guest appearances by Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, and Adrian Belew of King Crimson. The final track listing of the 60 minute album is:
1. Deadwing
2. Shallow
3. Lazarus
4. Halo
5. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
6. Mellotron Scratch
7. Open Car
8. The Start of Something Beautiful
9. Glass Arm Shattering

T-minus 3 months exactly.
Of course, I intend […]

Poor Patriots.

I used to feel somewhat guilty about Christmas. I stopped thinking of myself as a Christian probably in my junior year of high school. I don’t really know when, I just remember being a Christian as a sophomore and not being one as a senior. The feelings of guilt started maybe a couple years ago, […]

Emmet Tyrrell over at Town Hall has some things on his mind about Pinochet.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justice never sleeps. Or rather, the free-floating moralism that is the left never sleeps.
Ok, he’s going to attack the left from a principled moral perspective. I can’t wait.
The 89-year-old man is, of course, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, and his human […]