The Christianist Manifesto: A Partial Fisking by tristero Led by an admitted felon,* a bunch of extreme, but influential, christianists have released a rambling statement which they've pompously called "Manhattan Declaration." Get it? That's "declaration" as in "Declaration of Independence" rather than "manifesto" as in "The Communist ...

...on his rediculous thoughts on Open Carry. Clayton, you lose credibility when you say things like "It depends on your goals. If you want to win political battles, you don’t offend unnecessarily. If you want to express yourself, and don’t mind losing, then go ahead, open carry even when you don’t need to; it’s more important to express yourself than to win political struggles." ...

Last week the DNC released a rather oddly-timed attack ad against Sarah Palin, going after statements she made some time ago about the Democrats' plans to take over our national health care system. Not being ones to let such things go unnecessarily unchallenged, Conservatives4Palin decided to fact-check the DNC. Here's what Sheya and the rest of my honored colleagues who took up that ...

My comments will be in red. Before I start I would like to point out that the CES is a ’service’ for Catholic schools. It never has had, and I can’t see how it ever could have any remit over the life of Catholic families as we go about our business. It has no remit over the rights and duties of parents other than for those parents who choose to delegate partial responsibility ...

Over at CNN, author Rita Mae Brown talks about animals. I’m going to do a little tongue-in-cheek fisking. Not much, as I agree with most of what she says – and where I disagree, it’s usually funny.  But with our 8 horses, 7 goats, peafowl family, chickens, guineas,  ducks and 10 cat, 3 dog Castle, we see things a touch differently here.  I'd envy her those ...

The normally sensible Clive Crook writes a handwringing column about how Obama is messing it all up:Last year this centre elected Mr Obama and put Democrats in charge of both houses of Congress. This year it is switching sides in an unusually abrupt way. Polls have been saying this since the summer and the elections confirmed it. Independents voted against Democratic candidates two to one. ...