The White House has started a cockamamie procedure where regular citizens can launch petitions and if they get 25,000 signatures the White House will respond. Some are serious, like the one to exempt Hobby Lobby from the HHS contraceptive mandate. Some are silly, like the one asking for Joe Biden . . . . Continue Reading »
U.S. District Judge Robert L. Miller Jr., a Reagan appointee, has dismissed Notre Dame’s lawsuit regarding the HHS mandate requiring coverage of abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilizations on the grounds of timing, as Notre Dame finds itself in “safe harbor” while awaiting . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in Foreign Affairs , Yale history professor Charles Walton charges that the new film version of Victor Hugo’s novel inaccurately neglects politics in favor of the religious message: Hooper’s cinematic rendering is stunningly staged and brilliantly performed, but it cuts the . . . . Continue Reading »
If friendship needs to be seen afresh in our time as an intimate love in its own right, distinct from the love of spouses or romantic partners, then we need stories of friendship that show us how its rediscovery is possible. I’m always on the lookout for such stories, and I just . . . . Continue Reading »
Please be encouraged by the sensible words of Quin Hillyer : Overall, then, tax-rate policy isn’t optimal after the deal, but it’s not terrible either. It’s better, as already explained, than anything the Gingrich Congress achieved . . . . And whereas President Obama was able to . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on the process of writing a book : Writing a book is like groping through a cave that no one else has explored or ever will, because you create the cave as you go. When it’s all done I can’t remember how I got through all the tunnels to emerge, blinking, into the sun. . . . . Continue Reading »
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announced that he’s “semi-retiring” from his leadership of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. His legacy, both at Heritage and at the Justice Department, cannot be overstated, as I wrote in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Henninger has gone down the rabbit hole. In his column for the Wall Street Journal he inveighs against the countless ways in which the tax code is manipulated by legislators to reward this or that constituency—-or donors and lobbyists, as the case may be. The . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George, authors of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense , will discuss their book next Tuesday, January 8, at 12:30 p.m. at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. The event will be hosted by Jennifer Marshall, director of . . . . Continue Reading »
I missed this report from before Christmas in the Boston Globe and I wish I missed it altogether. Romney’s son Tagg, one of Romney’s closest campaign advisers, says his father did not really want to become president. “He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my . . . . Continue Reading »
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