Over at Public Discourse today, Christopher Tollesfsen has a very fine essay on various issues related to the HHS contraception mandate. Although I agree with most of it, I disagree on two very minor points. Here’s the first: A Catholic hospital forced to provide contraceptive coverage could . . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is President’s Day, and Joe Romm , a long-time climate-change awareness advocate, admittedly disappointed by what he hoped would be inspiring rhetoric from Obama on the subject, has written an interesting survey of the literary and rhetorical virtues of America’s present and past . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent Congressional hearing on the contraception mandate (in which Bishop Lori told the well-publicized “Parable of the Kosher Deli”) prompted two Democratic congresswomen to walk-out “in protest” at the apparent gender imbalance of the testifying panel. “Where are the . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on Kevin Madigan’s offenses against history ; At the end of the Second World War, when the Nuremberg prosecutors were gathering evidence for the upcoming trials, one of the many people they turned to for assistance was Pope Pius XII. They were not disappointed. The Holy . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists claim that the first hamburger made from stem cells may soon be available for consumption. From the Telegraph story:By generating strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they can create a product that is identical to a real burger. The process of culturing the . . . . Continue Reading »
While the heated reaction against the HHS mandate is now nothing new, the responses from Catholics and their “reasonable friends” have not all been the same. Christopher Tollefsen at Public Discourse has helpfully outlined and explained each of what he opines are six different (though not . . . . Continue Reading »
Ellis West has published an op-ed for the Richmond Times-Dispatch arguing that “if the questions is whether the [contraception-coverage] regulation violates the religious freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment, the answer is clear. It does not.” Thomas Berg at Mirror of Justice thinks . . . . Continue Reading »
ME on Dr. Craig Bowron. The most interesting thing is the thread. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Jews Are Next David P. Goldman, Spengler The Safe, Legal, Rare Illusion Ross Douthat, New York Times Sacred Dogma of the Left Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard Where Zombies Come From Martin Kester Coombs, The American Conservative The Deconstruction of Marriage Peter Lawler, Big Think . . . . Continue Reading »
“You see this? This is what I’m going to do to your referendum.” Liechtenstein may be a constitutional rather than an absolute monarchy, but don’t confuse His Serene Highness Hans-Adam II with one of those ornamental vestiges of royalty that pass for monarchs in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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