Clayton: First, "Whose side are you on" is not an argument. I'm rather proud of the fact that I have managed to disagree with virtually everyone in the four years I've been blogging. I voted no on the Arizona version of California's Prop 8 that was on the ballot last fall. But this is a different ty...

... and, instead of giving you a grade, to say "Ask God what your grade is." blog advertising blog advertising...

It’s ba-ack! Just in time for Darwin’s 200th birthday celebration worldwide. . . Past snook-cocking on evolution under attack by the Discovery Institute’s secret-agent spyscope Wedge Strategy: Florida Follies: Billions of Years and Dollars VANISH! Let’s Play Lose Ben Stein...

I was rather intrigued when a drug company representative showed up at my institution with some literature on a medication called Vaprisol manufactured by Astellas Pharma. This drug is one of a class of drugs called vasopressin receptor antagonists (VRA's) and is used to treat low blood sodium level...

I have a daughter drooling over doctoral programs in English, so this definitely caught my eye: The Chronicle of Higher Education January 30, 2009 Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go It’s hard to tell young people that universities view their idealism and energy as an exploi...

Malia and Michelle are both wearing big bows, and now Aretha has a giant, very-Aretha bow on her hat. Bows are the surprising wardrobe theme for the ceremony I guess, hopefully not for the whole administration! Same goes for Rick Warren’s “Jesus Christ controls this administration and th...

Audio from The Diane Rehm Show last week: 11:00 (second hour) The Role of Libraries in Economic Hard Times Libraries today have become multimedia centers, offering not only books but DVDs, e-books and Internet access. They can also be an especially important community resource during times of econom...

Just drove Young Son to Irish dance and musical theatre. Their performing arts studio is in a neighborhood shopping center with a sandwich shop and pizza place, a chinese food restaurant, a small computer shop — and a huge, very busy martial arts place with big glass walls across the front so ...

"[A]cademic freedom, rather than being a philosophical or moral imperative, is a piece of policy that makes practical sense in the context of the specific task academics are charged to perform. It follows that the scope of academic freedom is determined first by specifying what that task is and then...

The purpose of this movie is to expose the rampant discrimination in the scientific community against any scientist who would admit the possibility of Intelligent Design as a plausible explanation for the origin of life on our planet. As a Christian, I am not only a proponent of ID, but of Creationi...