Literature-wise, for me the last year has been the year of Jane Austen and Charles Portis. My present Austen re-reading kick is due to my own idiosyncratic reasons, but my discovery of Portis is entirely due to seeing the Coen Brother’s version of True Grit . . . and I imagine I’m not the . . . . Continue Reading »
Here . How do I know? She actually clarified a key point about her thought in Carl’s thread below! Please come back and visit often, Chantal! . . . . Continue Reading »
Jason Hoyt of the national Christian fraternity Beta Upsilon Chi has the story of what’s happening at the prominent Nashville university. Evidently inspired by the Supreme Court’s wrongheaded ruling in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez in 2010, the university’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Mitt Romney continues to follow his campaign strategy based on emulating Mr. Collins by once again saying the very worst thing you can say . It’s like watching ten or twenty years of hard-won progress in teaching the people who understand economics how not to talk about poverty go right down . . . . Continue Reading »
This is rather stunning. The Hill is reporting that Rep. Jackie Spier is leading the charge for liberals to abandon the Susan G Komen For The Cure charity because it has stopped funding Planned Parenthood. From “House Dem Abandon Susan G. Komen After Planned Parenthood . . . . Continue Reading »
If the first wave of New Atheism was excessively strident, the second wave is shaping up to be unbearably sentimental. Alain De Botton, a Swiss-British television personality who has recently been selling something called “Atheism 2.0” at tech conferences, has begun planning and . . . . Continue Reading »
We hear much talk about how the health care system should take “quality of life” of the patient into account in medical decision making. This issue is discussed in the Health Blog over at the WSJ today. From “Informed Patient: Taking Quality of Life into Account in . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on religious seekers versus finders : On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, I heard a sermon—a rather well-delivered one at that—about the Magi as religious “seekers.” The same note, I’ll wager, was struck from pulpits and ambos across the country, perhaps across . . . . Continue Reading »
The sense of entitlement of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its supporters would choke a cow. California is about to run out of cash!—and its supporters worry that it might lose the ability to borrow even more money to bury my state under an even . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been a spate of stories about Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupting pro-life events (on one occasion , they reportedly showered a group of female Catholic students with condoms). All this has led Ben Johnson to ask, “Why does Occupy Wall Street support Big Abortion?”: The . . . . Continue Reading »
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