Former President Bill Clinton told Rep. Paul Ryan that he hoped the Democratic victory in NY 26 would not mean doing nothing. Republicans pounced, as if the statement really boosted their hand.But look at this clip. Clinton is consistent in both. The Ryan exchange is much ado about . . . . Continue Reading »
Julian Baggini has a intriguing interview with philosopher and theologian Richard Swinburne about the existence of the soul. . . . . Continue Reading »
Warning! If we rely primarily on government funding for health care, when funding is scarce, big problems arise. We’ve dealt with this before in the context of the NHS, Medicaid cuts, and rationing by time in Canada. But look at what is happening in Greece. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
While much of our attention (well, mine anyway) is focused on the question whether same-sex marriage will be foisted on the American people by judicial ideologues, the T in LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered) continues to pop up in the news in odd and disturbing ways. This morning . . . . Continue Reading »
Global Warming Hysteria holds that we should destroy our national sovereignty by handing over our economies to an international, unaccountable technocracy run by the pathetically hapless UN, as we redistribute wealth from the West to pay destitute countries to stay destitute. (See the craziness that . . . . Continue Reading »
The nine justices on the Supreme Court are a surprisingly literary bunch . What do Nabokov, Hemingway, Montesquieu, Wittgenstein, Stendhal, Proust, Shakespeare, Dickens, Faulkner, Solzhenitsyn, and Trollope have in common? They’re all readily mentioned by Supreme Court Justices when . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning On the Square , Russ Saltzman writes his abbreviated Confessions, recounting how he stumbled into faith without ever “getting” religion: Far from being a “religious” person, I think of myself primarily as an ex-atheist. But just as there’s no such thing as an . . . . Continue Reading »
As fiscal pressures lead to cutbacks in the public sector, says Lewis M. Andrews , organized religious groups are stepping into the void: As much as America has suffered since the start of the financial crisis in 2007, there is no doubt that for many the situation is about to get worse. The . . . . Continue Reading »
I have found the ongoing discussion over the proposed San Francisco law outlawing circumcision from being performed in The City, very interesting. I thank the many commenters to my two recent previous posts (here and here) for their participation, frankness, and passion.It is that very passion . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know the ins and outs of the loss by the Republican in NY 26 House District. I know there was faux Tea Party spoiler candidate, and etc. But the MSM is claiming that it is a rebuke of Representative Paul Ryan’s idea of fixing Medicare—depicted above in a prime . . . . Continue Reading »
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