My wife and I will have lunch at Chick-fil-A today. It’s not an uncommon experience in our family, since our son works there. (For the record, he and his sister are on a mission trip this week, working with immigrant kids , so they won’t be joining us. Also, for the record, my son . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, the power of the Feds to dictate health care coverage nationally is being wielded to force “free coverage” for women’s “reproductive” medical and consumerist services. And the radical Kathleen Sebelius and Nancy Pelosi are bragging about their power of . . . . Continue Reading »
The pop music of the last 50 years really has become progressively bereft of musical variety. So says this Spanish analysis of gobs of pop songs . So Martha Bayles is right. Geoffrey O’Brien’s nightmare last chapter of Sonata for Jukebox is right. And me too, I . . . . Continue Reading »
More on the State Department’s Religious Freedom Report Thomas F. Farr, The Corner Reviewing Peter Leithart’s Political Theology (Pt. I) Matthew Lee Anderson, Mere Orthodoxy Faith, Hope, and Lost Causes Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Building Around the Fruit . . . . Continue Reading »
My mom was a seamstress for much of the 1980s and some of the 1990s. I remember that she would work for a company, and then that company would close shop, and then she would find a job somewhere else and then that place would close down and so on. Evan Soltas has an explanation . . . . Continue Reading »
My beautiful wife, Debra J. Saunders guest hosted Dennis Miller with me in tow. If you’d like to have a bit of a listen, hit this link, and then hit the audio link. Yes, our marriage . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rodgers on interpretations of Matthew 25.31-46 : Matthew 25.31-46 exemplifies the divine inversion. Inverting worldly expectations, the king explains to those gathered before his throne that they served him as king by serving the least kingly people of all: the hungry, thirsty, naked, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan Lizza’s long New Yorker profile of Paul Ryan is a masterpiece of subtle liberal partisanship. My favorite part is Lizza’s treatment of Ryan’s proposal for premium support Medicare. When referring to the Ryan Roadmap, Lizza describes “Obama’s alleged . . . . Continue Reading »
The State Department yesterday released its annual International Religious Freedom Report for the year 2011. From Foreign Policy’ s overview : The report highlighted the deteriorating situation in China, whose government continued to increase restrictions on religious practice for Tibetan . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a brief report on my brief vacation. Thanks to those of you who wrote me concerned about my health or sanity or very existence, because I had virtually disappeared. In response to the many requests to say something about Berry College and Chick-fil-A, I have to respond that the . . . . Continue Reading »
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