Here is an excellent, information-packed write up about the school where I am the Provost and a literature teacher, Patrick Henry College. It describes our “Ivy League-caliber scholastics paired with a distinctly Christian worldview.”

If you think this is a good combination and would like to support what we are doing here, we’d be much obliged. We’re working on a challenge grant that asked us to increase our donor base to 5000. If you’d like to become one of them, click here.

Oh, yes. The article, on Worldnet Daily, was written by a PHC intern.

Hey, remember when we were so traumatized when gasoline hit $2 per gallon? (I can remember being traumatized when it hit $1. I still am! When I was in college, a gallon of gasoline cost 21.9 pennies.) There wasn’t much outcry when it passed the $3 mark. But what about $4?

Economists are rather mystified as to why it costs so much. See Oil Price Defies Easy Calculation. The supply is plentiful, and there seems to be no artificial interruptions in the marketplace. One culprit seems to be that big investors, such as pension funds, are moving out of those shaky financial credit funds into commodities, bidding the price up. Also, the price has to be whatever the market can get, and few people seem to be inhibited by these high prices to reduce the demand.

Charles Krauthammer observes that we have utterly failed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, as that country announces new centrifuge breakthroughs that are necessary for the production of an atomic bomb. Therefore, he says, we must go back to the cold war policy of deterrence. The prime target for an Iranian nuclear weapon, judging from what Iran’s president keeps saying, would be Israel. Krauthammer urges that the United States make this pledge, based upon what President Kennedy said to the Soviets if they attacked any of our allies:

“It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear attack upon Israel by Iran, or originating in Iran, as an attack by Iran on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon Iran.”

Are we up for that?

From Charles Krauthammer on the degeneration of the Democratic presidential race:

If there are no policy issues between them and the personality differences have been whittled down, what’s left? Identity. Race, age, and gender. Is this campaign about anything else?

Nationally, the older white woman — Clinton — carries the senior vote, the white vote and the women’s vote. The younger black man — Obama — carries the youth vote, the black vote and the male vote. . . .

The pillars of American liberalism — the Democratic party, the universities, and the mass media — are obsessed with biological markers, most particularly race and gender. They have insisted, moreover, that pedagogy and culture and politics be just as seized with the primacy of these distinctions and with the resulting “privileging” that allegedly haunts every aspect of our social relations.

They have gotten their wish. This primary campaign represents the full flowering of identity politics. It’s not a pretty picture.