Whatever happened to keeping abortion “safe, legal, and rare”? Those goals just don’t fit the needs of the abortion industry anymore. Last night the abortion crowd, or perhaps I should say “mob,” achieved a minor victory here in the state of Texas. State Senator Wendy . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m just rambling a bit this morning. What’s wrong with the CIVIC ENGAGEMENT movement in higher education is that it aims to eradicate dissent. No more time for thought, it’s time for action, the issues are clear and critical. And they have to with global warming, inequality, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Natural Lawyer Kay S. Hymowitz, New York Times Book Review God in a Meaningless Universe James Chastek, Just Thomism On the Charismatic Renewal Mark Shea, National Catholic Register The Fallacy of Human Freedom Robert W. Merry, National Interest Are You Out of Your Brain? Marc S. Latkovic, Public . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, the US House of Representatives held a joint subcommittee hearing on the situation of religious minorities in Syria, Religious Minorities in Syria: Caught in the Middle . Co-sponsored by the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations . . . . Continue Reading »
For almost 20 centuries, there was little controversy over Christian teaching about homosexuality. For the last few decades, there has been an extraordinary amount of controversy. How should Christians respond to this changing situation? In a helpful recent blog post , Christopher Damian . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”” align=”alignleft” width=”305”] Image from the Flathead Beacon [/caption] Yesterday, a federal district court ruled that the US Forest Service did not violate the Establishment Clause by renewing a permit for “Big Mountain . . . . Continue Reading »
So tomorrow, word has it, the Supreme Court will release it’s decision in the cases concerning Prop 8 and DOMA. I.e., tomorrow we will get a same-sex-marriage ruling. Now the import of the decisions will depend on the cases, and so to understand them well, so as to avoid saying something . . . . Continue Reading »
Macklemore’s pro-same-sex-marriage rap video is “quite masterful, actually . . . ” says R. J. Snell in today’s column , “beautifully produced, skillfully managed, and positioned within a moving narrative of birth, death, and love; it is, I suspect, devastatingly . . . . Continue Reading »
“In the opening line of James Joyce’s Ulysses , stately, plump Buck Mulligan bears ‘a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed,’” says Melinda Selmys in today’s column , ”Holding the bowl aloft he declares, ’ Introibo ad . . . . Continue Reading »
Steven Pinker (l) with stuffed panda (r). Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has sent a letter of protest regarding the University of Miami’s dismissal of Colin McGinn for harassing a female graduate student. “Such an action,” says Pinker, “would put a chill on . . . . Continue Reading »
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