Exemplified by this local news Colorado interview with President Obama . Real questions, with a bias towards tough questions. And, our president handles them well enough, even if noticeably displeased. Legacy media, would it have been so hard? Four years? Oh, boo-hoo, the White House press . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2008 there were some serious pro-life people who actually bought the kind of argument Charles Reid is once again selling. I’m confident that it won’t happen this time. Those were “messianic days” when grown men and women could talk themselves into believing that . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been thinking a little bit about the 1980s comedy Caddyshack and what that movie might tell us about our changing perceptions of the wealthy. The fellow that was originally supposed to be the main character was a young caddie who was trying to figure out how to get to college without . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Oppenheimer explores the two worlds of American religious sisters on Religion & Politics today. Though he lets the women speak for themselves and is sympathetic to them all—-the nuns were “among the best people [he] had met in a long time,” and . . . . Continue Reading »
When deciding how to structure and operate our prisons, suggests Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein , we should treat them less like holding cells and more like rehabilitation centers. This model, he says, is actually based on the Torah and has been greatly successful in Israel. He describes one of . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on the voice of the martyrs : Last week, gunmen from the Islamic sect Boko Haram attacked the Church of the Brethren in the village of Atagara in northern Nigeria, killing two and torching the church on their way out. Over several days, the terrorist group killed dozens in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Dabblers are compelled by their very dabbling to disdain those who will not dabble and who persist in believing the truth claims of one particular religion. Continue Reading »
Frank Schubert meets Francois Truffaut. Citizens in seventy-five French cities formed “flash mobs” with a distinctively new-wave aesthetic sensibility to protest prime minister Francois Hollande’s plan to redefine marriage : In every case groups of men dressed in black and . . . . Continue Reading »
A Moral or a Scientific Critique? Peter Blair, Mere Orthodoxy Humanism Is an Impossible Dream Andrew Brown, The Guardian A Calvinist Response to Mourdock Carlton Wynne, Reformation21 Augustine and the Three Purposes of Rhetoric Fr.Michael Dominic O’Connor O.P., Homiletic & Pastoral Review . . . . Continue Reading »
My high-powered lawyers are on stand-by in case things go beyond the denial strategy, but here goes, a Pomocon exclusive: Lena Dunham: Well, the thing I mentioned yesterday is actually much further along than that. Sally’s [ Ms. Dunham’s agent ] been emailing me about her negotiations . . . . Continue Reading »
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