Ryan’s post on the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School reminded me of another flourishing initiative in Catholic education: Notre Dame’s A.C.E. program. Now fifteen years old, the Alliance for Catholic Education teaches the teachers—training more than 1,000 college graduates, since 1993, . . . . Continue Reading »
Slate’s Will Saletan is an interesting (and sometimes maddening) writer who writes about the raging bioethics/biotech debates from a uniquely oblique angle that often exposes the surrealism of modern times. Case in point, an op/ed piece in yesterday’s Washington Post. He . . . . Continue Reading »
It looks like politicians are the same in Australia too. . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the disengenous argument of David Gibson . For a wonderful point by point response, see this post by Ed Whelan . Ramesh Ponnuru adds some further thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »
This very funny satirical sketch takes down the two most notable women in contemporary American politics. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Post has a sobering front page story about what it is like to raise a Down child: Credit the selection of Sarah Palin as Vice Presidential candidate for the interest shown. I was heartened by some of what I read, and very much appalled. From the story:But the parents of children who . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, this explains a lot. (Just kidding.) There is a theory that eating meat is one reason why human beings developed our bigger brains. Now, credence might be added to that hypothesis with a study that shows non meat eating might actually shrink the brain. From the story: Scientists have . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest example of how Catholic schools succeed where others cannot, courtesy of George Will in today’s Washington Post . It began in 1996 with 79 students meeting in the four corners of a roller-skating rink. Today the 540 students — most from two-parent families with an average of . . . . Continue Reading »
The kind of vitriol still being aimed at Sarah Palin, as I have said previously, is not because of energy policy. It is because she has become a cultural symbol that some hate so deeply they are even willing to politically harm their own candidate in what appears to be a vain effort to destroy . . . . Continue Reading »
After watching clips of Charles Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin, my impressions were similar to those of Ross Douthat and Clive Crook at the Atlantic . But if Mark Levin’s website is accurate, there were some passages where Palin showed greater depth and subtlety that were edited . . . . Continue Reading »
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