The American Family Association and Catholic League are all atwitter over a foul-mouthed ESPN reporter: ESPN and its parent company, ABC, have refused to take any action against ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson for her hateful, slurring remarks against Jesus, saying “F– — Jesus.” On January 11, Jacobson was speaking at a celebrity roast in Atlantic…

Fred Thompson’s candidacy is no more. The world stumbles at the shock of the news. There are lots of ways to explain the failure of his candidacy. The most obvious one is to say he seemed to want the office less and less the more he ran. With the exception of a few snappy minutes…

John McCain’s win tonight in South Carolina makes him the day’s only clear winner. Consider – the Clinton/Obama muckfest threatens to alienate and dishearten the Democratic party in ways that could make it almost as depressed as the Republican party. Between them which constituency aren’t they ticking off? Perhaps only Democratic bass fishermen and there…

For some blessed reason book publishers sometimes send me books. Books for free… imagine. Some of them are stunningly good. Here are three books I can’t recommend highly enough… more highly?… high ? You get the picture. Blogging is destroying my already limited grammatical capacity… capacity, grammatical?… capacity for grammering? In February comes N.T. Wright’s…

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