Daily Archive: April 20, 2009

(Intellectually) Leggy Blond

Rod Dreher points us towards this Giles Fraser post in Church Times about Philip Blond, intellectual guru of Red Toryism.  ED has discussed Blond previously here at the League. Here is the portion of...

Speaking of the DHS memo redux…

Michael Savage has filed a lawsuit against the government claiming that the memo has a chilling effect on free speech (H/T: Dispatches from the Culture Wars).   Regardless of one’s opinion of the content of...

quote for the evening

“The notion that differences of opinion between the Catholic church and U.S. law will somehow render Catholic judicial nominees unconfirmable is demonstrably ludicrous. In addition to opposing gay marriage, the Catholic church also opposes...

Why I care about this Apple vs. PC business

So there’s this company. Maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s called “Apple”. (I know– really non-threatening!) I don’t harbor any animus against this company, personally. At least I didn’t. But several years ago, Apple...

quote for the morning

“Twitter is social networking for the postapocalypse, a Spartan chatsystem for survivalists suffering from a radical scarcity of face-to-face information. There’s a reason so many zombie enthusiasts tweet. But until we are legend, Twitter...

Anticipating Cuba

It’s very good news that steps are finally being taken to ease relations with Cuba.  So far, Obama’s efforts to normalize American/Cuban relations have not gone nearly far enough, but I understand the need...

(Don’t) Stop the ACLU!

Say what you will about the ACLU, but they’re pretty darn consistent when it comes to opposing unwarranted government surveillance.