The Huck Upchuck

Rod Dreher, author of the book Crunchy Con , has a habit of referring to what I call "grounded human behavior" as "conservati...

I have to say, this song had a prominent and important place in my heady adolescent puppy love days of the 1980s:

Crunchy Con Rod Dreher has put up a posting today in which he grumps about Andrew Sullivan's use of the term "Christianist" t...

I'll be showing this clip in one of my classes tomorrow. We're going to get a brief introduction to the "game" of capoeir...

A good friend of mine was shot in the head in an apparent robbery/carjacking. I have known this person for three years. He had become a g...

One of my favorite sweet treats. Here's the recipe: Ingredients: 2 Cups Dark Brown Sugar 2 Cups Refined White Sugar 2 Cups Evapor...

Well, it's once again that time of the month when my lovely bride will again be out at the Palmer Park Arts Market setting up her booth ...

 Just imagine if a soldier were to ask a question at a Democratic presidential primary debate and the coterie of Democratic presidential ...

A young, handsome, and traditional project-promise candidate is poised to help the PRI, Mexico's former long-standing ruling party, win...

"I wish it hadn't come to this. But Obama, to my mind, has successfully demonstrated he has been willing to compromise, and the GOP...

Republicans turned off by the size of Obama's package . LOL!

This is actually quite incredible. That this Louisiana politician can seem to imply with a straight face that having $400,000 in disposable...

The disenfranchisement of high-population, urban "blue" America by the electoral college, is poised to become a Republican strate...

Dumb as an ox; but self-aware enough to know this about himself and not be overly defensive about it. On the other hand, one of the hardest...

Andrew Sullivan thinks so . In fact, Sullivan says explicitly of Huntsman that he's "so easily the most electable" among the ...

This one is one that Squirrelly Girlie the Younger likes. Not so much Squirrelly Girlie the Elder. I'm lukewarm about it.

You know, I have been pondering the whole homeschooling topic once again because it has recently been the subject of a number of postings on...

Though I do think publicly remembering 9/11 is important, I hesitate to overhype such things. I worry about memory movements becoming culti...

I have had over the past few weeks some thoughtful conversations with different people whose opinions I respect about the current situation ...

If you are a regular Upchuck reader, you will know how much I admire and respect Andrew Sullivan . Sullivan considers himself a conservativ...