R.R. Reno on martinis and taxes : How do we deal with unsustainable spending and borrowing? The formula is simple: less spending—or more accurately less rapid increases in spending—and more revenue. But can we generate more revenue without suppressing economic growth, which is after all . . . . Continue Reading »
“Dust you are, and unto dust you shall return,” said the Lord God to Adam after the first sin. It’s a fine translation of the Hebrew, that dust; it suggests transience and insubstantiality. By the nineteenth century, in Britain at least, the word came to denote garbage of . . . . Continue Reading »
Fluid situation, but this Newsmax account is as good as any for portraying where things stand at the moment. 5 days away from a referendum that may give Egypt an essentially Islamist constitution. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts by me here. . . . . Continue Reading »
LGBT advocates like to compare themselves to African Americans in what they claim is discrimination practiced against them. We know that African Americans were systematically left out of much of American life. Many were locked into crushing poverty that could be tied directly to their inability to . . . . Continue Reading »
I was wandering through Facebook and noticed a quote by G.K. Chesterton at the top of someone’s profile. The quote was exceptionally stupid. And I thought to myself, So many people repeat these little quips, and so many of them are awful. So I decided to start a collection. I made it through the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Coming: Part II Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest On Reason in Milton and Donne Trina Hyun, The Augustine Collective Enough with the Lame Hanukkah Parodies Johnna Kaplan, Jewish Daily Forward The Disappearing Secondhand Bookstore Theodore Dalrymple, The Telegraph How Changing What I . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter asked for an homage to MItt Romney. I think I supplied one in the current Claremont Review of Books. Here is the link: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.2018/article_detail.asp . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Is DeMint going to bring new ideas to Heritage?? He could hire Pete and allow him to clean house. 2. I’m agreeing with those who say that the Republicans now seem to have two principles: Don’t raise taxes on the wealthy and cut the entitlements (particularly Medicare) that everyone . . . . Continue Reading »
Marshall McLuhan believed that the microphone led to the priest facing the congregation and the end of the Latin Mass, explains Kevin White : In 1974, Marshall McLuhan argued that the microphone was the proximate cause both of the elimination of Latin from the Mass and of the turning around of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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