Stanley Kurtz argues that the Gang of Eight Deal was so bad because the Republicans on the Gang of Eight were rolled by the Democrats. Kurtz writes: Were our negotiators just stupid? I don’t think so. They were desperate. They believed that it was necessary to put the immigration issue . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Ashbrook Center’s website, David Tucker , of the Naval Postgraduate School and an Ashbrook fellow asks us to consider how much freedom we would sacrifice to be safe from terrorism. Living in freedom means living with risk. It means accepting danger. The only way . . . . Continue Reading »
An update from Pravmir : There have appeared many reports in both the Eastern and Western press that the two hierarchs who were abducted yesterday by terrorists in Syria, Metropolitan Boulos Yazge, Antiochian Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo, and Archbishop Youhanna Ibrahim, Syriac . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on the idea of American Catholicism : Russell Shaw argues that the present struggles of the Church to be who she is amid governmental mandates and the ascendant “state religion” of secular humanism are the legacy of Baltimore’s Cardinal James Gibbons and other early . . . . Continue Reading »
In his memoir Hidden: Reflections on Gay Life, AIDS, and Spiritual Desire , Richard Giannone, emeritus professor at Fordham, writes about his mother’s slow decline and his care for her in her final days. Central to the story is Giannone’s long-time partner Frank. After Giannone’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The Anecdotal Way to Santiago de Compostela David L. Simon, Medievalists.net Fakes and Ale Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement The Evidentialist Terrell Clemmons, Salvo New Schoolers, Neo-Calvinists, and Fundamentalists D. G. Hart, Old Life Can a Religious Believer Be a Serious Journalist? . . . . Continue Reading »
So says Rusty Reno . Compare today with 1980! Those who still fear socialism (or, I would add, even progressivism) just haven’t being paying attention. Sure, there’s ObamaCare. But it’s only a relatively small part of a big picture. Unlike our friends the Porchers, Rusty realizes . . . . Continue Reading »
Rich Lowry hopes that Ted Cruz will take a more prominent (and Ramesh Ponnuru hopes Cruz takes a more wide-ranging ) stand against the Gang of Eight plan to give amnesty to people who have already been deported, and implement a guest worker program for low-skill immigrants. Now I think there are . . . . Continue Reading »
AFP : US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Turkey on Sunday to re-open Orthodox clergy schools near Istanbul that authorities have kept closed for more than 40 years. “It is our hope that the Halki seminary will open,” Kerry said during a press conference in Istanbul after two days of . . . . Continue Reading »
R. R. Reno on the triumph and the downsides of capitalism : The history of modern politics shows again and again that we can exercise political power to ameliorate and mitigate the social consequences of free market capitalism. This can only be done by limiting its powering motor, which is economic . . . . Continue Reading »
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