I agree with Jody’s comments on the California homeschooling decision, especially about the plaintiffs perhaps not being the ideal plaintiffs for a test case. Now that the case is on the books, however, it would seem to me that any homeschooling parent in California could sue the state in . . . . Continue Reading »
Out of California comes a court decision that denies any constitutional right to homeschool. The initial news reports made it sound bad , and the decision itself seems to go far beyond where it needed to. But Joseph Knippenberg , Richard Garnett , and even the libertarian legal bloggers at the . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that Geert Wilders’ fifteen-minute film on the Qur’an, called Fitna , has a few nasty things to say about the Islamic text as well as some of the atavistic ideas imported into his country. So much so that it has caused the Netherlanderisherite government (I can never remember . . . . Continue Reading »
Lio demonstrates that only humans are true music . . . . Continue Reading »
PETA kills stray animals, even some that are adoptable. Yet, we only see the rare protest from animal liberationists against that group. But when an Indian city decides that it must poison 100,000 stray—and in some cases rabid, dogs—the rightists are outraged. From the story:Officials in . . . . Continue Reading »
On Tuesday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., Father Neuhaus will be speaking at the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi in Metuchen, New Jersey, on “The Catholic as Citizen.” On Saturday, March 15, beginning at 10:30 a.m., he will be giving two Lenten recollections at the Philippine Pastoral . . . . Continue Reading »
An article in the Foreign Affairs by the former chief economist of the Venezualan National Assembly shows how the populist socialism of Hugo Chávez has hurt the very poor it was intended to help. A sample: Although opinions differ on whether Chávez’s rule should be . . . . Continue Reading »
The Schindler Family has, quite rightly in my view, concluded that it is almost impossible to obtain fairness and accuracy—or at least both at the same time—about Terri’s case and other issues such as Futile Care Theory and assisted suicide from the MSM. So, they are starting a . . . . Continue Reading »
A recruiting office was bombed in the early morning hours in Times Square today. Nobody was hurt. That means, according to the nonsense spouted by animal rights terrorism apologists, the bombing was merely a compassionate act of peaceful . . . . Continue Reading »
Marion Cotillard is a French actress who won some kind of award recently. I mention this because back in 2006 she gave an interview on French television (see the U.K. Telegraph story here ) in which she said about the September 11 terrorist attacks, “I think we’re lied to about a number . . . . Continue Reading »
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