An audience member asked a panel of seven farmers what they thought about government farm subsidies. The response was unanimous: first laughter, then this: “Subsidies only subsidize those who don’t pay taxes.” This article at Roma locuta est explains the economics of it. . . . . Continue Reading »
The U.S. Senate is close to the ratification of a U.N. human rights treaty on persons with disabilities. A vote in the Senate yesterday places the treaty one step closer to ratification, which is supported by a broad range of veterans’ groups along with disabilities groups and is being touted . . . . Continue Reading »
In a discussion of the classic spiritual “Sit Down, Servant”—-performed above by the Staple Singers—-a friend pointed out the parallel between the song’s chorus and the last stanza of George Herbert’s “Love (III).” Love (III) by George Herbert Love . . . . Continue Reading »
Yoram Hazony Is In Error Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic Times Tries to Pin a Label on Dorothy Day Terry Mattingly, GetReligion In Praise of the Cliché Hephzibah Anderson, Prospect On the “Art of Jesuitism” Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing Creating and Destroying the . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro-life groups that spend time outside Planned Parethood clinics have recorded eighteen recent instances where women have had to be transported to nearby hospitals by ambulance. The most recent case occurred the day before Thanksgiving in St. Louis : A St. Louis Planned Parenthood patient was . . . . Continue Reading »
Super-busy week for me, can’t possibly keep up with rapidly changing Egypt developments, but signs suggest a civil war in the making: From a Guardian story, we learn that Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Alexandria and Mansoura were ransacked and in the case of latter, set on fire, prompting . . . . Continue Reading »
I think William McGurn puts little too much stress on the whole Obama “Life of Julia” slideshow, but he does raise the perfectly reasonable question of why so many middle-class Americans decided that Obama had their back while Romney was indifferent at best. Let’s take a look at . . . . Continue Reading »
David Blankenhorn and I have had a useful exchange. In his last posting he questioned my argument that judging homosexual acts wrong isn’t akin to the racist view that skin color makes someone inferior : I’m sure that Rusty Reno knows as well as anyone that almost no gay people . . . . Continue Reading »
After a tiresome election season and an even longer season of slacking off spiritually, I thirst for Advent as ardently as the nation’s retail sector thirsted for the recent anti-holiday known as Black Friday. In addition to breaking out my favorite Advent music (like the beautiful new . . . . Continue Reading »
A group calling itself ” Africa for Norway ” has created a brilliant sendup of the way Western efforts to aid the Global South tend to suggest that every solution to Africa’s problem will come from the outside—-specifically, from the largesse and good intentions of . . . . Continue Reading »
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