Rabe Ramblings

Rolling Stone has a fascinating, exhaustive, enormous piece this month on what it's like to be a Scientologist. After reading it, you...

Well, the Winter Olympics are over, or as I like to call them, Chicksportapalooza. I didn't see any of these Games, with the exception o...

The thing I continue to find disturbing about the Bush Administration is the way it treats criticism from the right. When conservative crit...

Just got back from Indiana, and picked up about 40 valuable degrees Fahrenheit along the way. I'm told some people actually live up tha...

There's been a lot of discussion over the past week or so regarding the "Evangelical Climate Initiative," signed by Rick Warre...

Today I'm going to Indianapolis (and Ft. Wayne), where it's 23 degrees. According to the weather websites, though, it feels like 12...

At the end of a busy traveling week (and New York City did a wonderful job of clearing away the snow; by the time I got there, you'd not...

It only makes sense that I'd schedule a business trip to New York City for the day after their biggest snowstorm in recorded history. W...

I failed to note last week that (as Sam The Lovably Grumpy Atheist pointed out), Grandpa Al Lewis dropped off my "surprised they'r...

If you kill a cartoon rioter, does he return in the next scene healthy as if nothing had ever happened? I think the best way to stop these M...

Why was President Bush at Coretta Scott King's funeral today? Every visit to kiss the rings of the so-called "civil rights leaders...

The National Association of Evangelicals hasn't taken a public stance on global warming despite a few calls from within the organization...

So I see that the face transplant woman in France came forward yesterday for her first press conference. Transplant recipient Isabelle Dinoi...

It's hard not to be a little amused by the irony in the violent Islamic protests against political cartoons portraying the prophet Moha...

Pat Buchanan lambastes President Bush on the foreign policy parts of his State of the Union address: Intending no disrespect, [Bush's s...

The closet leftists in the media are desperately hoping that Justice Alito's first vote at the Supreme Court yesterday signals that he...

Judge Samuel Alito is expected to be confirmed by the Senate today to the United States Supreme Court, despite the hilarious tirade launche...

Well, it looks like a few Democrats are going to try to mount an Alito filibuster after all. It's been said before, but these goofs are...

Four years ago next month, in one of the more memorable experiences my job has afforded me, I drove up to Dunnellon, Florida (near Ocala) an...

One of the longstanding illusions about the ACLU is that they are merely the dogged defenders of the crucial civil rights of everyone, regar...