President Obama appeared to violate his oath of office by promising not to enforce federal law with regard to medical marijuana in states where it is legal. Apparently, the Justice Department didn’t get the message. From the story:Despite campaign promises to the contrary, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Outside a church in Indonesia , a Christian was stabbed in the stomach and the minister, who came to the first victim’s aid, was hit in the head with a wooden plank: No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. But suspicion immediately fell on Islamic hard-liners who have repeatedly warned . . . . Continue Reading »
Please join the Tocqueville Forum for a Constitution Day Roundtable: Constitutional Morality? Friday, September 17, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Inter Cultural Center Auditorium On the campus of Georgetown University Featuring: Dr. Richard Hassing, Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America . . . . Continue Reading »
Today the Church remembers St. John Chrysostom, a great preacher and leader in the early Church. Made Archbishop of Constantinople in 398, he was impolitic enough to denounce the opulence, hypocrisy, and debauchery of the imperial court, earning him banishment in 403. While I was writing a . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square,” Joseph Bottum describes what would have been for some others a misspent weekend, spent watching the old televisions how What’s My Line? on Youtube. And in Lining Culture finds that what “the weird, silly, self-important old show did have, that would . . . . Continue Reading »
For the last few days we have been discussing cost cutting and the threat of rationing in the context of Obamacare, focusing on proposals that the govt. and private insurance not cover some efficacious treatments based on cost/benefit analyses, sometimes called evidence based medicine.This morning I . . . . Continue Reading »
When the Democrats shoved Obamacare down our throats despite having badly lost the national political debate, and after resorting to one of the most dishonest advocacy efforts I have ever seen, they assured themselves it would get more popular once people found out what is in it. Wrong. . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friends at National Review have presented a strong defense of traditional marriage : What the institution and policy of marriage aims to regulate is sex, not love or commitment. These days, marriage regulates sex (to the extent it does regulate it) in a wholly non-coercive manner, sex outside . . . . Continue Reading »
Economist Robin Hanson raises an interesting question : A key pillar of modern morality is the sanctity of romantic love. We reel in horror at the thought of “backward” societies, including our ancestors’, who arrange marriages without intense emotional romantic love. . . . . Continue Reading »
When I first read about “Sacramentans” at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, I thought it was referring to some sort of Catholic order that I had never heard about. But then I realized it just meant “people from Sacramento.” Sacramento, California . That explains a lot: . . . . Continue Reading »
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