I say praise with the express acknowledgement that I think Rick would have had a hard time winning the Republican nomination, let alone winning a popular—or even an electoral majority—against the current president in the general election in the first place. His case for the presidency was . . . . Continue Reading »
I thought I would point out two recent articles that articulate a problem regarding religious liberty—and its expression in terms of certain communal institutions of civil society—in relation to the state (or at least a certain understanding of what the purposes of state are or ought to . . . . Continue Reading »
I noted this morning that the Obama HHS mandate has contributed to a crumbling of the Catholic left, and Matt Cantirino offered further evidence of that crack-up in the form of a column by E.J. Dionne. Now I see that even secular stalwarts are backing away from the administration’s decision. . . . . Continue Reading »
A chorus of conservative criticism greeted the invocation of martial virtue in his State-of-the-Union speech. Max Boot wrote that the military is “not a model for the rest of society.” Matthew Cantirino found Obama’s “conflation of ‘military’ and . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s New York Times reminds us that the Jesuits haven’t gone entirely off the rails. Their exposé exposes the fact that Fordham has resisted compliance with a New York state law that requires insurance coverage that pays for birth control pills. Nice to know that on this . . . . Continue Reading »
BuzzFeed responds to recent ribbing of Mitt Romney with a helpful primer on “garments,” the underclothes worn by Mormons: Though it’s common in Mormon-mocking rhetoric to use some variation on “magic Mormon undies” to describe the garment ( paging Bill Maher ), . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for The New York Times, Ross Douthat’s mention of “liberal communitarians” sounds a little odd to my ears, but he is dead on in his analysis of the current situation in the US: Government and its Rivals. An excerpt:Liberals know that it takes a village; conservatives . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Hibbs reviews the new film Young Adult : The new film Young Adult , the latest from the writer/director team of Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody of Juno fame, features Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary, a writer of young adult fiction living in the Twin Cities who returns to the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have become increasingly convinced in recent years that the political Left isn’t concerned with liberty as much as power. Obamacare is a classic case in point. Mandate, after mandate, after mandate—and as I have said, using the regulatory power assumed by the Feds to reward . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . of fellow “liberal” Catholics upset with the HHS mandate for its quite un-liberal approach to conscientious objection. In a piece in today’s Washington Post , he writes: One of Barack Obama’s great attractions as a presidential candidate was his sensitivity to the . . . . Continue Reading »
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