Jonathan's blog

Feb 5

Op-Ed Columnist: Wallflowers at the Revolution

Found at Last: Tape of First Super Bowl

Feb 4

What The Flap Over Health Care Tells Us About American Religion

Feb 3

What Would the Tea Party Think of Reagan Tax Policy?

Obama to deliver major speech on personal faith

Feb 2

Health care's federal future, brought to you by the GOP

Our Great Sin

Jan 31

Northwood University's women's basketball team sets national record in comeback win

RT sharifkouddous: Muslim Brotherhood chanting Allah Akbar. Crowd stopped them chanting louder: Muslim, Christian, we're all Egyptian.

Jan 30

Fox Geezer Syndrome

Amazon rolling out Netflix-like video streaming for Prime subscribers?

You can beat it just like I did

To kill some time tonight while waiting for my delayed flight from TX to MI, I went to the theater to see True Grit (2010,PG-13).  From ScreenIt!:

A 14-year-old Arkansas girl hires a gritty 19th century federal marshal to find and capture the man who killed her father.

I enjoyed it...as expected...it's the Coen Brothers after all.

I give it 4 out of 5.

Jan 27

Midland County, other area counties, impacted by heating assistance cut

Chris & Juliana: I started following American Idol last year (I know, kinda late to the party).

Why you don’t really want to be the New Testament church

Repeal EMTALA!

Jan 26

Mitch McConnell: The most honest man in Washington

Jan 25

Southern Baptist leader leaves mosque coalition

Pakistan, blasphemy, and a tale of two women

Jan 24

Elliot tweets: The Superbowl is going to be a good game. But I still think the Steelers will come out with the win.

New York Times Prepares Plan to Charge for Online Reading

Jan 23

Elliot tweets: Packers and the Steelers in the Superbowl. The Steelers will win the Superbowl 45-0

Jonah Lehrer: How Poverty Hurts Young Children, and Why Rich Parents Don't Matter

The Weekend Interview with Walter Williams: The State Against Blacks

Jan 22

Elliot tweets: Awesome concert last night

Iron And Wine: Tiny Desk Concert

Pizza Sam's: Celebrating 50 years in downtown Midland

watching Nova's "Making Stuff: Making Stuff Stronger" with the boys. crashing cars and bullets striking objects has their attention.

bought tickets for The Pixies in Detroit in April

Jan 21

Words Fitly Spoken: but no human can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. –James…

Health-care reform doesn't have 10 years of taxes for six years of benefits

Echoes From Gettysburg: How Americans Embrace Incivility and Ignore the Poor

Echoes From Gettysburg: How We Can Save Our Country--Part 1: Weeks before the attempted assassination of…

Jesus Hates Obama site says Super Bowl ad is rejected

Jan 20

Two good arguments for civility - and passion - in politics

Sargent Shriver's Christian Politics

A response to the CPAC boycotters

Jan 19

Repeal, but no replace

House Republicans discover that the Senate doesn't work very well

Funny thing about fantasies, they are detached from reality

Jan 18

The shooting in Arizona? An isolated incident!

McGurn: Rising Above Roe v. Wade

The Godfather of Soul, The King of Pop and The Prince of OMG!

The health-care system will always need the government

Is the individual mandate unprecedented?

Back in New York. From 80 degrees to 20 in a few hours. Still it was nice to get a bit of winter sun.

Jan 17

On MLK Day, Some Thoughts on Segregated Schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama

We All Love Him Now: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Jan 16

Sanders

Jan 15

Elliot tweets: My basketball season ended today. We ended with a record of 5-2-1. We came in 2nd place in the league.

Elliot tweets: Steelers Are Gonna destroy the Ravens

Elliot tweets: @detroitpistons: awesome win verse the raptors

Iron & Wine at Daytrotter Studio Jan 12, 2011

Elliot is tweeting from our iPod Touch.

Jan 14

Nouvel 66 Midland 62

Nouvel vs Midland basketball

There's no 'job-killing health-care law'

Jan 13

at work today there was a rare sighting of an 18-year-old Wil Gladstone/Brian Batey hybrid

Politics to a child

Jan 11

Leading evangelical halts effort to increase political civility

Jan 10

After Tucson: Why Are the Mentally Ill Still Bearing Arms?

'Violent imagery' in politics isn't the problem

Like Wool: “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they…