Rabe Ramblings

CNN.com's current headline is, "Pop Star's Family Wants Answers, Says Jesse Jackson." For a minute, I thought, "Huh?...

Obviously, there's not much left to be said nearly 24 hours into the media maelstrom surrounding the sad-but-not-entirely-unpredictable ...

Like in that movie "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind," I'm starting to wish all collective memory of Gov. Mark Sanford coul...

Sometime around the age of 30, it seemed as if someone had pressed the "double-speed" button on the remote control of my life. I ...

For any of you who are into that kind of thing (and I'm still trying to figure it out myself), I'm now on Twitter @johnrabe. The go...

From NPR News , with my emphasis added: [Justice David Souter] generally votes with [John Paul] Stevens and the two justices who were appoin...

So I see Arlen Specter came out as a Democrat today. I haven't been this shocked since Clay Aiken announced he was gay.

Okay, so help me understand this. There's a massive controversy over a beauty contestant, Carrie Prejean, who responded to a judge'...

Doug Wilson has a timely reminder for self-proclaimed conservatives on tax day: A good half of the American populace pays virtually no tax ...

What a lousy day. In the last five minutes checking the news sites, I've discovered that former Major League phenom Mark "The Bird...

Last night, in a touching and tearful ceremony, the Miami Heat retired Alonzo Mourning's #33 jersey--the first retired number in franch...

From Heaven is not My Home by Paul Marshall: If we are ever going to change this trend and become a vital part of our world, we must begin ...

Because of some unusual plans, I had the misfortune of surveying the current state of Christian television this past weekend. Actually, wor...

Hey, we've all got lives, right? (Except, of course, the hardy souls who've been keeping things going in the combox of the last pos...

Because of the iron-clad economic truth that every dollar the government spends is a dollar it will eventually have to raise through taxatio...

After having given up his evil ways (i.e. trying to pretend to be semi-conservative) during the presidential election, the press is finding ...

I'm reprinting this from Challies.com , where John Ensor of Heartbeat International has guest posted today. Normally I would just print...

Observations on this historic inauguration day, as Barack Obama is now the President of the United States: With tousled hair, NPR just pulle...

Tap, tap, tap....(blow, blow)...(feedback)...does this thing still work? Hello? Testing, testing, one, two, three... So now the report com...

This is the first version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I've ever been able to stand. It doesn't hurt that they someh...