In order to become a US citizen, immigrants must pass the Naturalization Test. Applicants must get six answers out of ten in an oral exam to pass the test. According to US Citizenship and Immigration services, ninety-two percent of applicants pass this test. The Christian Science Monitor has an . . . . Continue Reading »
You’ve probably found yourself watching the Discovery Channel and thinking to yourself, “You know what would be better than shows about sharks? Shows about real people being possessed by demons .” No? Just me? Okay, so I guess I’ll be the only one watching The Exorcist Files . . . . Continue Reading »
It isn’t something that suddenly happened in 2010, people have been compromising truth since the early days in the Garden. But never has it seemed so clear that people actually lack knowledge of right and wrong. Of course, most people know that murder is wrong, but few could provide a . . . . Continue Reading »
After my earlier post here about the Obama Administration decision to rescind the end of life counseling compensation regulation—just a week after promulgating it—NRO asked me to opine further. I cranked up the old gray matter and added some thoughts I had not mentioned here . . . . Continue Reading »
As expected, Congress voted to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy concerning homosexuals serving openly in the military and President Obama signed the repeal into law. Despite a lot of misgivings and reasons for leaving the policy in place, some of which I made here here , Congress . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s some tastes from a great new book edited by Brad Watson. . . . . Continue Reading »
David Tubbs of King’s College reviews Martha Nussbaum’s From Disgust to Humanity . She “wants to show that much of that opposition arises from what she calls the “politics of disgust”—a politics based on visceral reactions and disreputable attempts at . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel’s Wednesday column is our second ” On The Square ” essay today; in it, Weigel continues to examine the “tectonic shifts” in Catholic episcopal leadership in America, including recent measures by Bishop Thomas Olmsted: Bishop Olmsted inherited a terrible . . . . Continue Reading »
The sun has reached it midday zenith, and I’m still staring at the blank page on my desk. I had promised myself that I would begin writing about Akeksandr Solzhenitsyn’s In The First Circle —a key part of a book project that I’m calling, “The Renewal of the Conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m getting whiplash. First,they are in, then they are out, then they are in—and now, after all the yelling and defending, they are out again. What? Payment for doctors to provide end of life counseling. From the NYT story:The Obama administration, reversing course, . . . . Continue Reading »
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