This is no ordinary scandal , Peggy Noonan writes on her Wall Street Journal weblog Declarations , calling the IRS’s abuse of its power “the worst Washington scandal since Watergate.” Something big has shifted. The standing of the administration has changed. As always it . . . . Continue Reading »
Ruth Graham flags a funny problem in the essay that Matthew Cantirino shared yesterday: Originality has never been more valued in wedding ceremonies, and never harder to produce. She and her fiance, “like just about every other betrothed couple in America . . . wanted our . . . . Continue Reading »
The truth of the matter is that, generally speaking, things are typically getting better and worse. We conservatives have a standard based in human nature or the whole human person—the free and relational being—by which we can evaluate political, moral, and technological change. Our . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Degner Riveros reflects on Angelina Jolie and the risk of breast cancer : Women of less means than Jolie are collectively throwing up our hands. How can we, the working poor, afford weeks of preventative therapy, surgery, and breast reconstruction to prevent breast cancer? Will our insurance . . . . Continue Reading »
A kind of Greyfriars Bobby, only more pious: dog attends Mass where owner’s funeral was held . Wouldn’t find a cat doing this. . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Rauch’s brief memoir, Denial: My Twenty-Five Years Without a Soul , published recently as a Kindle Single, describes how powerful it can be to find that your previous unnamable self has a place . For much of the story’s first half, Rauch tells about trying to interpret his . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I’ve gotten a couple of complaints (really) that my contribution to BBS below was insufficiently sensitive to diversity issues. Well, that’s true. 2. The HR officer who called Sheldon in was a black woman skilled, as Leonard would say, in handlIng human relations issues. . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Henry: Not Just for Calvinists Matthew Pinson, Gospel Coalition The New French Catholic Youth Marie Lemonnier, Le Nouvel Observateur / Worldcrunch On Avoiding ‘Prosperous Wickedness’ James V. Schall S.J., University Bookman Why Private Schools Are Dying Chester E. Finn Jr., . . . . Continue Reading »
A nudge from Ben Boychuk about The Politico’s Behind the Curtain by Allen and Vandehei who are discussing “Why the GOP thinks it could blow it” which is all about conservatives letting their outrage get away with them. They have their little list, including comparisons . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a round-up of reactions to the new Obama administrative mandate—the if I’m offended (however unreasonably) you’re in trouble college speech code. Ken Masugi reminded me of the trouble Sheldon Cooper has had with his university’s human resources officer. But . . . . Continue Reading »
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