I can’t see how school officials would think this is acceptable: A conservative civil liberties group has filed suit against a school in Greenbelt, Md., for violating the constitutional rights of a seventh-grader who was allegedly threatened with discipline for reading her Bible in school. […] According to the student’s mother, Maryanne Mangum, Amber was…

My mother left a message on my machine last night that she had some bad news. When she calls after 10:00 and says something like that, I know someone is sick, in the hospital or has died. I think immediately that it’s my grandma because she just celebrated her 89th birthday and is getting a…

Interesting quote from Tom Wolfe: In the upcoming book, “Telling True Stories,” the “Bonfire of the Vanities” novelist says he watched in amazement at a NASCAR race last month as a National Rifle Association honcho got a rousing standing ovation, and was followed by a minister who “asked the Lord to look out for these…

I wondered about this, Dobson says no: A prominent and powerful evangelical Christian leader, James Dobson, said yesterday that the Mormon faith practiced by Governor Romney of Massachusetts could pose a serious obstacle if Mr. Romney makes a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. “I don’t believe that conservative Christians in large numbers…

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