Arthur Brooks argues that conservatives have Faulty Moral Arithmetic . He is complaining about Republicans and conservatives, though perhaps more about the perception about Republicans and conservatives than about their essence. There have been many reports and studies over the years about the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. First off, every darn REPUBLICAN out there ought to be following Pete on TWITTER. 2. Who would have guessed that Romney would be such a WHINER? 3. THE PRESIDENT is still whipping the Republicans every single day in the post-election contest. If the SEQUESTER cuts don’t end up hurting . . . . Continue Reading »
Roman Spring Ryan T. Anderson, Weekly Standard Fertility: Some of Us Are Just More Productive David Paul Deavel, Star-Tribune The Story of Our Glory David Mathis, Desiring God Cloistered Popes and Cloistered Emperors Lapham’s Quarterly Is Derrida Serious? Peter C. Blum, Imaginative . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, on Fox News Sunday , Mitt Romney complained about the “long and blistering” primary that created an “unfavorable impression” of him. This outbreak of narcissism and self-pity has a chance to distort our perception of what actually happened during the Republican . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m now on twitter. https://twitter.com/petespiliakos . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the surprises of Augustine Thompson’s recent biography of Saint Francis , as illuminated by this Mars Hill Audio interview , is that the “radical” Francis was something of a liturgical purist. “Francis returned often to the theme of the Eucharist in his . . . . Continue Reading »
Maybe the most underreported political story is that President Obama just is not that popular. He has a 50.3% percent job approval rating in the Real Clear Politics average of polls. Obama only barely gets the approval of the median American. It isn’t like the Republicans have to work against . . . . Continue Reading »
The more our government has been involved with regulating and directing health care in the US the more expensive that care has become. New, expensive technology: hardware, pharmaceuticals, modes of treatment, are all aspects of modern medical care and wonderful because they keep people alive . . . . Continue Reading »
After recent public accusations of sexual misconduct with seminarians, Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland not only resigned as archbishop but also announced that he would not attend the conclave to elect the next pope. I wish some of the other Cardinals would give up the privileges of their . . . . Continue Reading »
It is too bad that this Phillip Klein article hasn’t gotten a lot more play. Klein points out that out that there isn’t even one panel on health care policy at the Conservative Political Action Conference. I remember seeing a speech by Chris DeMuth in the late-1990s where he said that . . . . Continue Reading »
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