I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about this week’s incidents in the Middle East. Pete has said some favorable things about our current president’s foreign policy, but for me said policy has been appallingly misguided. I do not see its success. Libya is . . . . Continue Reading »
On everything, but let me just say something about abortion. I don’t have time to get the links going. But: Comparatively moderate old-school Democratic women like Eleanor Clift and Cokie Roberts are loudly complaining that the Democratic convention was over-the-top on abortion. Certainly . . . . Continue Reading »
Dylan refuses to be badgered into being for or against Obama. He makes the ROLLING STONE reporter look like an ideological tyrant, which he is. . . . . Continue Reading »
or why I don’t think the Washington Times is not quite right. 1. I’m not at all sure the Iranian Embassy situation did all that much to hurt Carter in the end. Take a look at Carter’s job approval numbers in his last two years. From Spring 1to mid-November of 1979, Carter’s . . . . Continue Reading »
at Slate: Megan Simpson always expected that she would be a mother to a daughter. She had grown up in a family of four sisters. She liked sewing, baking, and doing hair and makeup. She hoped one day to share these interests with a little girl whom she could dress in pink. Simpson, a labor and . . . . Continue Reading »
Pierre Manent, an eminent French political theorist, has a lengthy essay in City Journal in which he meditates on the political forms which both created and are eroded by modernity: Today in Europe, civic activity is feeble, the religious Word almost inaudible. Yet as we noted at the outset, . . . . Continue Reading »
Shlomo Zuckier presents an interesting variety of Jewish perspectives on brain death at Jewish Ideas Daily. A brief definition before jumping in: Brain death occurs when a person’s brain activity, including that of the brain stem (which controls the respiratory and cardiovascular . . . . Continue Reading »
On Wednesday, Ross Douthat, opinion columnist for the New York Times, gave a talk at the University of Mary on the themes of his book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics . Mr. Douthat was kind enough to permit us to videotape the lecture. . . . . Continue Reading »
John Lennon asked us to “imagine “ there is no religion, no countries, indeed, no beliefs. Do that and the world could “live as one.” It was all pap, but we Boomers ate it up because we thought that would do away with right and wrong, meaning by definition we could define . . . . Continue Reading »
of the Motley Fool: In my years as a financial advisor, I counseled many young couples regarding their financial matters. In that time, I never heard a newlywed couple say they wish they’d spent more money on their wedding. In fact, a year or two after the wedding day euphoria dissipates and . . . . Continue Reading »
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