It’s tough to comment on the various interconnected scandals. The main reason is it’s so tough to keep up. The MSM media experts are having the same problem: Still, very few Democrats are in complete denial about how bad this might be. If I were to combine several little lectures I . . . . Continue Reading »
Picking up from my nightmare post below, proceeding into the daylight of what’s come to light so far, I would say that . . . . . . even a glance at the most reassuringly-framed wire-service newspaper stories about Friday’s hearing on the IRS scandal must leave one seriously appalled. . . . . Continue Reading »
A tremor was felt rumbling through the land . . . . . . fitful dreams interrupted, of mobs and protests, shrill cries, a yellow flag is waved in great swoops, festooned with the sign of the black pistol, there are other flags, secret meetings, solemn pledges, stockpiled cans and legal briefs, . . . . Continue Reading »
that Obama partisans at the IRS avoided fights with prominent and well-funded conservative groups but waged an extended campaign of harassment against conservative community organizers? . . . . Continue Reading »
This is no ordinary scandal , Peggy Noonan writes on her Wall Street Journal weblog Declarations , calling the IRS’s abuse of its power “the worst Washington scandal since Watergate.” Something big has shifted. The standing of the administration has changed. As always it . . . . Continue Reading »
Ruth Graham flags a funny problem in the essay that Matthew Cantirino shared yesterday: Originality has never been more valued in wedding ceremonies, and never harder to produce. She and her fiance, “like just about every other betrothed couple in America . . . wanted our . . . . Continue Reading »
The truth of the matter is that, generally speaking, things are typically getting better and worse. We conservatives have a standard based in human nature or the whole human person—the free and relational being—by which we can evaluate political, moral, and technological change. Our . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Degner Riveros reflects on Angelina Jolie and the risk of breast cancer : Women of less means than Jolie are collectively throwing up our hands. How can we, the working poor, afford weeks of preventative therapy, surgery, and breast reconstruction to prevent breast cancer? Will our insurance . . . . Continue Reading »
A kind of Greyfriars Bobby, only more pious: dog attends Mass where owner’s funeral was held . Wouldn’t find a cat doing this. . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Rauch’s brief memoir, Denial: My Twenty-Five Years Without a Soul , published recently as a Kindle Single, describes how powerful it can be to find that your previous unnamable self has a place . For much of the story’s first half, Rauch tells about trying to interpret his . . . . Continue Reading »
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