The first reviews of Cry Wolf have appeared. That’s the novel, an anti-immigration parable, by Paul Lake, the poetry editor of First Things . Paul and I don’t quite see eye-to-eye on all these issues, but there’s no denying he’s written a fun, fast, and powerful read on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Leona Helmsley left her hundreds of millions of dollars to care for dogs. And now the animal rights groups want that action. From the article by the industry funded and excellent information source, Center for Consumer Freedom: Helmsley’s money, which may amount to as much as $400 million in . . . . Continue Reading »
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, built in 1916 across the street from what would become the home of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, is a little-known casualty of the September 11 attacks. The four-story church collapsed with the fall of the south tower, leaving only “a handful . . . . Continue Reading »
“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: ‘If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.’ Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.” So writes Christopher Hitchens in the August issue of Vanity Fair , after . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times reports that a German activist for assisted suicide filmed himself assist a healthy seventy-nine-year-old woman end her life. Ms. Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of Würzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did not want to move . . . . Continue Reading »
In the current issue of America , ” A Sexual Revolution : One woman’s journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic.” The Theology of the Body seems key. A bit from the article: Growing up in secular middle-class America, I understood sex as something disconnected from the . . . . Continue Reading »
Imagine The Incredibles meets A Clockwork Orange . You remember The Incredibles , that Pixar sensation about the family of superheroes who are domesticated by a politically correct society that defines pluralism as an egregious egalitarianism and a uniform mediocrity. And A Clockwork Orange is, of . . . . Continue Reading »
On July 25, a new film of Brideshead Revisited will be released. It has much promise, especially with Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain, so keep your eyes open for reviews and the movie itself later in July. . . . . Continue Reading »
According to New York Times , Senator Obama went yesterday to Zanesville, Ohio, where he expressed his support for faith-based organizations—or, as he put it, for fulfilling the failed promises that the Bush administration had made. “When I’m President,” he said, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Delaware House of Representatives has passed a resolution in support of protecting the life of Loren Richardson, who like Terri Schiavo before her, is the subject of a bitter court fight over removing her feeding tube. The resolution states:This Resolution establishes protections for mentally . . . . Continue Reading »
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