John Hinderaker at PowerLine breaks down the possible reasons for Obama's strange stance on the Iranian uprising (and the government crackdown about to intensify): 1) America is or has been evil, so it should do little or nothing in the world. (Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, etc.) 2) Obama is just a cautious guy who avoids risk at all costs. (Iran is the pirate "crisis" writ large, with Obama silent until someone else steps up and does something.) A variant of this theory is: 3) Obama has no idea what to do about Iran, and he knows it. (He remembers that a few years ago he was but an unknown … [Read more...] about Why is Obama AWOL on Iran?
Obama Absolutely Clueless on Iran
Charles Krauthammer at his best: Moreover, this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for the eruption of anti-regime fervor that has been simmering for years and awaiting its moment. But people aren't dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators. This started out about election … [Read more...] about Obama Absolutely Clueless on Iran
Great Online New Testament Greek Tool
Anthony J. Fisher hosts a browsable, Web-based interface to the Greek New Testament (GNT). You can select a book, a chapter, or a verse. Or you can search for all instances of a particular word. And you can narrow a word search to only those instances in which an adjacent word (such as the definite article) is present. A nifty tool. … [Read more...] about Great Online New Testament Greek Tool
Five Myths on Fathers and Family
Writing for the National Review magazine, W. Bradford Wilcox exposes some of the misleading Father's Day themes that tend to pop up in the media at this time of the year. 1. The Mr. Mom surge. 2. Women want all housework and child-related work divided 50-50. 3. Cohabiting fathers are just as involved as their married counterparts. 4. The children of divorced parents do just fine. 5. Dads are dispensable. HT: Albert Mohler … [Read more...] about Five Myths on Fathers and Family
On the Demise of Fatherhood
A great word from Andrew Peach (on First Things) in advance of Father's Day this Sunday. An excerpt: Most fathers-to-be suppose that their old ego-centered lives will continue more or less unabated after the child arrives. With the exception of a few more obstacles and demands on their time, their involvement with their children is envisioned as being something manageable and marginal. Nothing like a complete transformation—an abrupt end to their former life—really enters men’s minds. But then the onslaught begins, and a man begins to realize that these people, his wife and children, are … [Read more...] about On the Demise of Fatherhood
U.S. State Department Calls on Twitter For Help
The NY Times reports: On Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed the social-networking site Twitter with an unusual request: delay scheduled maintenance of its global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information and inform the outside world about the mushrooming protests around Tehran. The request, made to a Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, is yet another new-media milestone: the recognition by the United States government that an Internet blogging service that did not exist four years ago has the … [Read more...] about U.S. State Department Calls on Twitter For Help