Peter Augustine Lawler on much our democracy owes the Puritans : There’s little less fashionable today than praising the Puritans, especially for their egalitarian political idealism, their promotion of genuinely humane and liberating learning, and their capacity for enjoyment and human . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s your crazy stat of the day : According to a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) report released Tuesday, one-third of all drug tests on drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents came back positive for drugs ranging from hallucinogens to prescription . . . . Continue Reading »
In Delivered From All Stain , today’s first “On the Square” article, I try to explain what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception says and why Catholics can believe with confidence something that really does, in my experience baffle and annoy, and sometimes even anger, their . . . . Continue Reading »
Where is Freud when you need him: Sometimes weather is just weather.Britain and other parts of Europe are in a real cold snap. It’s unusual weather, so it must be global warming, right? Uh, that would be no, at least according to the science. From the story: Is it the . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Pope of Rome and the Christian East , an Eastern Catholic scholar surveys Benedict’s Light of the World for his statements about or of relevance to Eastern Christianity, Catholic and Orthodox. For example, on the the nature of the unity between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches: He . . . . Continue Reading »
1. That’s basically the charge against our friends THE PORCHERS leveled by Mr. Cheeks below. It’s surely a bad sign that our friend Caleb from Kansas (who was one of my two favorite Porchers) has left the Porch. The charge, as I see it, amount to this: They’re not really talking . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been meaning to post about this case, but NYT Leftist columnist, Gail Collins, wrote about it first in her column today—so let’s bounce off her perspective. Collins is angry that a Medicaid patient needing an organ transplant was rationed out of the surgery because of . . . . Continue Reading »
I never bought the nonsense against Bush that he was anti science and skewed facts to fit his belief system. That cetainly wasn’t true in the embryonic stem cell issue, which was a fight over proper ethics, not science. In fact, Bush’s faith that scientists could find ethical . . . . Continue Reading »
Belgium’s euthanasia law permits people to be killed by doctors because they are disabled. In such a discriminatory setting, is it any wonder that a Belgian court has now approved the odious notion of a wrongful life. From the story (may have to hit translation button):The Court of . . . . Continue Reading »
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