Rabe Ramblings

I saw this photo and caption at CNN.com from today's bailout hearings: Rep. Barney Frank speaks today as Sens. Charles Schumer and Chris...

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm do...

Presumably the authors of this story (nor the doltish politicians who trumpet this kind of thing) can see the connection here. From today...

From what I'm hearing, things are very bleak right now on Texas' decimated gulf coast. Not that I'm hearing much. Doesn't ...

I predicted some months ago that John McCain would lose in a 40 state landslide. My reasoning was sound--no candidate wins because voters ...

Read this little line from TIME Magazine a couple or twenty times and see if you can get your mind around it: Her daughter's pregnancy ...

Pointing out liberal media bias is so easy it's almost not even fun anymore. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, or winning a stuff...

The fact that Sarah Palin is a woman and a mother has drawn questions from both the political Left and the Right. Of course, the questions ...

One of the traditional rituals of the election season is some old classic rock song being used by a Republican candidate, followed by the ol...

Man, did I pick a bad time to go away. Anything happen while I was gone? So much to post about, so little time. Hopefully we can get caught ...

On the Palin pick: the short answer is, I like it. McCain is a terrible candidate. He at least needed a running mate who wouldn't hurt ...

O b a m a - B i d e n O s a m a - Bin Laden I'm just saying. Visually, you have to admit it's odd.

Well, I see that John Edwards, finally feeling the weight of public pressure after Rabe Ramblings blew the lid off his illegitimate child s...

I saw a hilarious ad on television the other day from Media Matters , the leftwing organization devoted to discovering conservative bias in ...

I noticed in Slate that Christopher Hitchens has written an appreciation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer (who died over the w...

From CNN.com : The International Olympic Committee has banned Iraq from competing in the upcoming Summer Olympics because of what it says is...

The odd story of a burglar who got stuck in a ventilation shaft in a sports bar trying to make his way in after closing hours--presumably to...

In all the furor surrounding Jesse Jackson's recent overheard comments about Barack Obama, the thing being largely ignored is the thing...

Undoubtedly, you've heard the story the media has been relentlessly hyping about the so-called “pregnant man.” "Thomas Beatie,...

I've noticed with passing interest the phenomenon among my fellow evangelicals of adopting fad diets that market themselves as somehow b...