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It’s probably not a good idea generally to buy a book out of spite, but in some ways that is precisely what I did when I picked up Sarah...

Michael Sean Winters has put up a post on NCR Online that is a rebuttal to a Deal Hudson commentar y on abortion and the public option. Winters demonstrates...

Joe Hargrave at the American Catholic has an excellent post on ” Restructuring the Case for Life .” He bases it on a Dinseh D’Souza article for Christianity Today...

Horrible news : Local officials and state police are confirming that a pro-life advocate was shot and killed outside a high school in this Michigan town. The person, who...

I’ve been interested in the reaction to my review of Atlas Shrugged which Chris Blosser linked to here . First of all, it might be the only thing I’ve...

The Rick Pitino saga is one of the sickest and saddest sports-related stories I’ve ever come accross .  Here are the major details: University of Louisville men’s basketball coach...

This seems like a fitting followup to Chris’s post .  From the pen of Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain: I don’t know exactly what about me threatens...

Daniel Hannan, a British politician and Member of the European Parliament, writes: I gave the same message everywhere. Americans should cleave to their Jeffersonian heritage. Normally I would shoot...

In answer to Joseph’s question , I am a little surprised by how far the President’s approval numbers have fallen and how much pushback he is getting on his...

There was an interesting exchange on the American Enterprise Institute’s Enterprise blog, sparked by this Charles Murray post about the concept of duty. Murray was writing in response to...

There are several interesting posts up at the blog The American Catholic on the Declaration of Indepenence and the American Revolution . Buried within the comments are some expressions...

In a fairly strong display of solidarity , the US Bishops have issued a statement supporting Bishop John D’Arcy’s recent “pastoral concern” regarding President Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame:...

Matt Archibiold discusses Sam Mendes’ latest anti-suburbia flick : Essentially, Mendes seems to adopt the view of literary urbanista types that the suburbs are a death filled wasteland. I...

The shooting at the Holocaust Museum yesterday has had the predictable but still unfortunate result of launching another discussion about the rise of right-wing extremism. In my opinion, James...

Some might think that it would be a bit unseemly to compare a man who performed late-term abortions with a heroic crusader for civil rights.  But the type of...