The newest edition of the The Human Exceptionalist is out. And among the stories we cover are the claims that we don’t really have free will. I touch upon the importance of that issue in my letter of introduction. From the July 31, 2012 Human Exceptionalist:Dear Exceptional . . . . Continue Reading »
More on Paul Ryan from The Snug of the Pub, explaining why Ryan might be a good or a bad choice for Romney. Also relevant is this quote from a CNN story on why Romney is losing . . . . . Continue Reading »
The Internet has made it easier than ever before to catch and correct misinformation. Dan Rather’s false reporting on George W. Bush’s National Guard experience was exposed by a blogger. On my own blog earlier today, with the help of some Facebook friends, I had a quick answer to an . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Rahe speculates that Obama might want to replace Biden as VP, and especially with a dramatic and game-changing choice, which could only be . . . . . . Hillary! Yeah, that’s a forced exclamation point, because speculation about how to figure the Hillary-Bill-Barry dynamics is a very . . . . Continue Reading »
I have twice written here about “freedom of worship’s” attack on “freedom of religion,” that is, the attempt to shrink free exercise into a mere right to worship . President Obama has pushed that theme once again in his speech at a White House dinner celebrating . . . . Continue Reading »
Via the ever-valuable J.L. Wall , history professor Anders Henriksson’s complete, brief history of the world , compiled verbatim from papers written by his students. A gruesome sample: The Reformnation happened when German nobles resented the idea that tithes were going to Papal . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on the modern films and the enamel of our souls : During the height of the Sopranos ’ appeal, it was amazing to see how many practicing Catholics were addicted to the series—notwithstanding its ultraviolent, sexually degrading content—discussing each . . . . Continue Reading »
There Obama goes again, reducing “freedom of religion”—more accurately, the “free exercise thereof”—to a puny “freedom of worship, which I have warned against repeatedly, mostly in the context of Obamacare and the “Free Birth Control Rule.” . . . . Continue Reading »
We are told Romneycare was the proving grounds for Obamacare. If that is so, there is much to worry about now that MA has a new law targeting doctors’ fees. From, “Health Law Treats Docs Like Villains,” by Alex Vuckovic in the Boston Herald:As of last week, thanks to . . . . Continue Reading »
When it comes to Ayn Rand, I agree with David Bentley Hart’s magisterial condemnation from our March 2011 issue: Ayn Rand always provokes a rather extravagant reaction from me, and probably for purely ideological reasons. For instance, I like the Sermon on the Mount. She regarded its . . . . Continue Reading »
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