Several friends have been posting and sending me excerpts from Fr. Neuhaus’ final book, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile, mostly as reminders that every human regime is bound to disappoint, or to alienate, us if we are searching for a different kind of Zion. Amen, I say; indeed, if . . . . Continue Reading »
David Talcott on California’s ban on same-sex therapy : Today in California, a sixteen-year-old girl can get an abortion without even notifying her parents, let alone needing her father’s permission. But if that same girl has sexual feelings for another girl and wants to get rid of those . . . . Continue Reading »
Massachusetts voters have held the culture of death at bay for at least a little while longer in the USA, depriving backers of assisted suicide with an Eastern Front from which to spread the poison. It’s a good result that I don’t think could be duplicated in Europe. Much can . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom , I doubt Christie’s actions had any measurable influence on yesterday’s vote. As for Hurricane Sandy, it was an act of God in precisely the sense that all of creation is. No more, no less. I do very much agree with your closing suggestion that yesterday’s results should cause . . . . Continue Reading »
The President’s response to Hurricane Sandy was important to 4 in 10 voters, according to a Fox News report; and of that group, two-thirds voted for re-election. The storm took Mitt Romney virtually out of the news for days. Republican pundits have complained especially about the visual . . . . Continue Reading »
The USCCB today released a letter of congratulations to the newly re-elected president of the United States, as is their tradition on the day following presidential elections. New York’s Timothy Cardinal Dolan Dolan wrote on behalf of all the bishops : Dear President Obama, In my capacity as . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a very provocative analysis drawn off a RICOCHET thread: The debates became the Republican’s Achilles heel this cycle. We let them consume us during the primaries and we let them dupe us in the general. Obama gave Romney a freebie in the first debate, and suddenly everyone on our . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are the exit polls, which I’ve spent some time contemplating. First, let’s count our blessings. We didn’t have to stay up late, and we likely won’t have a nightmarish recount anywhere. The country can move on knowing who its leaders will be, and (for both . . . . Continue Reading »
The Martyrs of Modern Times Philip Jenkins, RealClearReligion What Happens to Social Conservatives Now? Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Saving Natural Law from Itself R. J. Snell, Public Discourse A Brief History of the Teleprompter Joseph Stromberg, Smithsonian The Right Wolfe Andrew . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m afraid that the outcome doesn’t fit into one of Jim’s four categories. The narrow popular victory—when enhanced by the electoral college semi-landslide and winning almost all the battlegrounds—probably does reach mandate level in at least one way: Nothing that the . . . . Continue Reading »
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