In the debate, Romney leads with: I love my many children and my one wife. Gingrich: How dare the evil news media start a presidential debate asking me about the national story about my second ex-wife telling a plausible story that I asked her for an open marriage. I am so angry, . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I don’t think the ABC story on Gingrich’s second ex-wife hurts him. No one on Earth is voting for Gingrich because they think he is a good husband (with the possible exception of the most recent Mrs. Gingrich.) 2. Gingrich’s current line is that people . . . . Continue Reading »
For future planning, Fordham’s Natural Law Colloquium will be offering a lecture on The Natural Law Origins of the American Right to Privacy by Anita L. Allen of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It will be held on Wednesday, March 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the McNally . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an all-American story. A baby has been caught ” tebowing ” in the womb, reports a Denver station: I see two possible readings of young Champ’s actions. He is either a hero sent to confound and dismay blue America by doing the most wildly red-state things . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I’m obviously not talking about a song here, but rather, about a high-school play that no-one not connected to the San Diego area Mt. Carmel High School during the 1980s has any reason to know about. (Nor am I talking about the musical that features hard rock songs.) I’ll say more . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a very good and sympathetic review of Alasdair’s work that says it is. THE LINK IS NOW REALLY THERE! Here’s one sentence: “It seems to me that MacIntyre’s image of modernity as an integrated, monolithic condition only makes sense within Marxist assumptions that . . . . Continue Reading »
About a week ago, I was contacted privately about a situation that has since hit cyberspace very hard. A developmentally disabled girl, I was told, was being denied an organ transplant solely because of her disability. I made some private suggestions about what the parents might want to . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’ll be in the Washington, DC area this coming weekend and haven’t heard (or managed to register yet), the 13th Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life is a truly invigorating experience. The conference, which will be held this upcoming Sunday, January 22, . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Sacred Architecture , Pablo Alvarez Funes describes how the eccentric and controversial Sagrada Familia became a nation’s church: The building of a church of this size could not be unconnected with controversy. In 1965 a manifesto against the continuation of . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman on “What a Young Wife Ought to Know” : Wife and Number Two daughter should not be left unattended in used book stores. That’s how we ended up with the latest additions to our growing array of used (and all but used up) books: What a Young Wife Ought to Know . . . . Continue Reading »
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