An easy target but it may amuse some of you: Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Author Dan Brown . The critics (this is Brown thinking) said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of . . . . Continue Reading »
In general I agree with Jon Shields (in his post below ) about the absurdity of marking birth as the decisive moment when a child acquires moral worth under our laws. And I admired his powerful Weekly Standard article very much. But I want to make two comments by way of mild dissent on a . . . . Continue Reading »
The political use of the IRS is one of our scandals of the week. It has actually been scandal for some time, since 2010, and people I know in suspect organizations who have had the (threatening) investigative letters say that began shortly after the president was inaugurated. The 1883 . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn Kessler’s The Fact Checker column at The Washington Post awards our President four pinocchios for his statement yesterday that, “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” This misrepresented his deliberate refusal to call the Benghazi . . . . Continue Reading »
The One Thomas More: Liberated by Conscience Louis W. Karlin, Library of Law and Liberty Against the McCarthy-Witch Hunt Analogy Philip Jenkins, RealClearReligion The Polish Model Gideon Rose & Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs Learning to Love Heaven Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted yesterday by the long-suffering Philadelphia jury on three counts of first-degree murder for killing abortion survivors. Next week, jurors will consider whether Gosnell deserves the death penalty. While there are many good reasons to defend Gosnell’s . . . . Continue Reading »
According to reports in the Arab media and Reuters, Saudi Arabia has convicted a Lebanese man of “evangelism” and sentenced him to six years in prison and 300 lashes. According to reports, the man, an Evangelical Christian, converted a Saudi woman in her 20s to Christianity and . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s Gosnell coverage, some of the nation’s most prominent media outlets called Gosnell’s victims “fetuses.” The New York Times wrote that “the defense battled over whether the fetuses Dr. Gosnell was charged with killing were alive when they . . . . Continue Reading »
Late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell has been convicted of first degree murder for killing babies after delivering them alive. The trial now moves into the penalty phase, and we wait to hear whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty. But Dr. Gosnell is only the front man; and the real trial . . . . Continue Reading »
And he got what was REALLY PROVOCATIVE —our Democrats are less progressive than conservative—without disagreeing with it. . . . . Continue Reading »
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