Ryan Sayre Patrico

What’s more harmful to the general public than the sex, violence, and general debauchery that pervades YouTube? Apparently, a twenty-year-old woman exposing Planned Parenthood’s bad habit of covering up statutory rape . . . . . Continue Reading »

Paul Howard at City Journal points out that improving the quality of healthcare, while a noble and worthwhile goal, won’t save anyone any money, so we shouldn’t pretend that it will: President Obama has made many promises about his health-reform agenda, but none looms larger than: . . . . Continue Reading »

Obama is no post-partisan, writes Bill McGurn: Only last summer we were told that Barack Obama’s political appeal rested on his vision for a “post-partisan future.” The post-partisan future was one of the press corps’ favorite phrases. It served as shorthand for the . . . . Continue Reading »

From the Jerusalem Post , an interview with a member of the Iranian paramilitary whose job it was to rape virgins so that they could be executed: The Basiji member, who is married with children, spoke soon after his release by the Iranian authorities from detention. He had been held for the . . . . Continue Reading »

At The American Scene , John Schwenkler adds his suggestions to a growing list of bad books, this time in the children’s category. What does he deem worthy of such an ignoble rank? Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree and Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express . Of course, First . . . . Continue Reading »

In the latest issue of First Things , associate editor David Goldman offers a helpful comparison between Faust’s wager and Job’s suffering: Critics often use the Bible to help explain literature, but, on rarer occasion, literature may help us to understand the Bible. Scores of studies . . . . Continue Reading »

Who said that? The Family Research Council? The Heritage Foundation? American Interprise Institute? Nope. Try Time magazine : There is no other single force causing as much measurable hardship and human misery in this country as the collapse of marriage. It hurts children, it reduces mothers’ . . . . Continue Reading »

According to a new study in Nature Geoscience , we still don’t know: No one knows exactly how much Earth’s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study suggests scientists’ best predictions about global warming might be incorrect. The study, which appears in Nature . . . . Continue Reading »

Britain. Old Blighty, indeed. (Via Mark Shea ) . . . . Continue Reading »

CatholicVote.org has a new video: . . . . Continue Reading »