Duke Lacrosse

September 14, 2007

>> Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson are not shy about the truth in the Duke lacrosse case: “The power of extremist professors will continue to spread unless mainstream liberal academics, alumni and trustees stop deferring to them and stop letting them pack departments with more and more ideologically eccentric, intellectually mediocre allies.”

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What Michael Vick Does Not Deserve

September 13, 2007

Anyone who lived in Virginia in the ’90s heard about Michael Vick. It was impossible not to. He was another child of the Tidewater region, famous for producing some of the best athletes in the country, even to the point of rivaling California, Texas and Florida in producing football stars. Vick never got the national […]

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The Demons Converted

August 26, 2007

The first of the weekly poetry readings, a series cut short by server trouble and reposted here. Enjoy this little treasure from the brilliant A.E. Stallings. [display_podcast]

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This Was a Man

August 14, 2007

We got in line yesterday around 3 PM, with about a hundred people ahead of us. We were dead center in the front row, bordering on the reflecting pool, looking straight ahead at the Capitol and the glowering statue of General Grant on horseback. We waited for the arrival. Folks were from everywhere – Iowa, […]

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Bobby Jindal Saves Louisiana

August 14, 2007

The first time I saw Bobby Jindal, he left Jack Welch, John Sweeney, and a roomful of corporate bigshots, union leaders, and people who generally like to hear themselves talk absolutely dumbfounded. It wasn’t the first time he’d done this sort of thing, and certainly not the last. Read on. It was 2003, and President […]

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So a Man Can Stand Up

August 14, 2007

The President’s speech in Normandy is a far better commentary on Memorial Day then anything I could offer, but what follows is a speech I delivered as part of the Colonial Williamsburg Veterans Day celebration. I think it works for today, as well.One of my earliest memories is that sense of great height, the rush […]

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The Speech Trent Lott Didn’t Give

August 14, 2007

Could Trent Lott have saved himself? We probably won’t ever be able to know the answer. I think it was within his ability to save himself, to give the equivalent of Nixon’s Checkers speech — which was a great one, and one few people actually remember accurately — and wrest control of this controversy away […]

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The Last Ship

August 14, 2007

We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds. We have been drenched by many storms. We have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretense… Are we still of any use? One of the little things about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s story that I had somehow forgotten over the years was the fact that he took a second […]

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Pilate on the Beach

August 14, 2007

One thing that I’ve learned over the past few years is the importance of the choices we make — not just in terms of career, of our life goals, of our partner. But the decisions we make about The Choice in life can ultimately make the difference in the way we act in all contexts […]

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Wrestling Tornadoes

August 14, 2007

Let’s go chase tornadoes Just me and you Don’t often catch em But man, when you do Just grab that catch rope Crawl out on the wing We won’t come down til we Own that thing. -James McMurtry My family stopped in Pennsylvania this past week to hike and stop by the highest point in […]

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