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Open a Bible, Learn Stuff -- By: Mike Potemra

Last week, I poked some innocent fun at the idea of The American Patriot’s Bible: The Word of God and the Shaping of America. I have been looking at a copy of it, and am pleased to discover it’s not as bad as I had feared. I did, however, catch a typo ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Clinton

A New Golden Age of TV -- By: Mike Potemra

The idea of having a Thanksgiving Day turns out to be especially inspired when the nation is going through dark times: The attempt to search out things we’re thankful for reminds us of a lot of great stuff we take for granted. Peggy Noonan’s column is ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peggy Noonan

Andrew Sullivan: The Randall Terry of Anti-Palinism . . . -- By: Mike Potemra

. . . or the Inspector Javert? According to this CNN poll, only 28 percent of Americans believe Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. For a person as well known to the public as Palin, that is an appallingly low number. For someone who is already ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrew Sullivan,  Randall Terry,  Sarah Palin

Singed by Irony or a Tribute? -- By: Mike Potemra

William Tyndale was one of the great heroes of history, burned at the stake in 1535 for translating the Scriptures into the vernacular. I was just checking, through Google, what percentage of the King James Bible was taken from his earlier translation. ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

New Koran Translation -- By: Mike Potemra

One of my great (but definitely amateur) interests is the field of English Bible translation. Since the days of King James, we English-speakers have been very well served by the efforts of ministers and scholars to render God’s Word in a manner that’s ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  17 Nov 2009

Mad Men Indeed -- By: Mike Potemra

My favorite TV show, Mad Men, is often criticized for catering to its viewers’ smug sense of superiority to the mores of an earlier time: Look how ridiculously backward the people of 1963 were, thoughtlessly accepting behavior we enlightened ones know ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  16 Nov 2009

Gut Check for Obama, and for Liberals -- By: Mike Potemra

Obama adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the president hasn’t wavered in his opposition to the Stupak Amendment, a measure authored by conservative Democrats to ban abortion coverage which last week passed the House ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  David Axelrod,  U.S. Republican Party,  National Rifle Association

The Spirit of 9/12 -- and 1776 -- By: Mike Potemra

My family left Communist Czechoslovakia because it was the kind of place where, to put it crudely, when government prosecutors declared somebody guilty, you could measure out coffins for the defendants without having to worry that you were wasting your ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

A Fair Trial -- By: Mike Potemra

I thank our friend Anthony Dick for his thoughtful comments (post of 5:52). His concerns are legitimate, and they remind me of the debate about whether to proceed with the Nuremberg trials. The fact that the Nuremberg trials proved to be a universally ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  American Civil Liberties Union

Nazism and Islamofascism -- By: Mike Potemra

It is a commonplace to assert the similarity between these two hateful ideologies. But there is more than mere similarity at work; there is also a family resemblance based, at least in part, on a historical, genetic connection. In his new book, Nazi ...

From MIKE POTEMRA, The Corner,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yale University

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