Assisted suicide proposals are almost always profoundly disingenuous, as I have been illustrating for years. For example, in Washington, doctors who assist suicides are currently legally required to lie on death certificates. Rather than list the actual cause of death—assisted . . . . Continue Reading »
In a piece that begins, “For God so loved Barack Obama, that he sent his servant, Rick Santorum, to ensure his re-election,” Noah Feldman at Bloomberg speculates about the Catholic nominee’s growing popularity with Evangelicals, claiming that it is perhaps an unexpected fruit of the . . . . Continue Reading »
This piece suggests that Rick Santorum would “reverse” JFK’s views about religion in public life. This essay , by frequent FT contributor Michael McConnell, suggests that that would be a very good thing. [C]onsider what Senator Kennedy’s absolute separation between . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on bringing death into the light : Death, for the people of that era, and every era before, was no stranger and brought no squeamishness. There was nothing mysterious about death beyond those questions we still ask—will we see them again in the next life, and why, so often, do . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that they’re paying attention to him, some observers kinda sorta like what they see. Michael Gerson regards him as the second coming of compassionate conservatism, something about which he knows a thing or two. The Catholic (and increasingly Protestant) approach to social ethics asserts . . . . Continue Reading »
Below, Peter links to his pro-pro-family tax policy Big Think piece. What’s fair, he says, about tax incentives for child-raising can be summarized thusly: some will contribute to the American future by having more children, others will do so by paying more taxes. And over at . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend who is an ardent patriot of Cincinnati sent along this wonderful tidbit from American Catholic history: The Institutum Divi Thomae was founded in 1935 by Dr. George Sperti and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The institute was a graduate school for scientific research. Dr. Sperti served as . . . . Continue Reading »
On Sunday, NPR ran a feature purporting to offer a definitive analysis of the ongoing battle for religious liberty (lately the “War on Religion”) against recent government mandates. While it’s encouraging to see issues like the HHS contraception mandate and the rights . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s pretty obvious why. The people, like me, who believed that THE TEA PARTY energy would make this time different were probably wrong. THE TEA PARTY will make no real difference at all. But most interesting is a comment in the link’s thread. Romney is like Dole in exactly this way: . . . . Continue Reading »
No Evidence Seniors Are Anti-Gay Byron Johnson, Public Discourse The Problem With Compassionate Conservatism Samuel Gregg, National Review Online It’s Not Right-Wing Social Engineering Ross Douthat, New York Times Agrarian Hypocrisy & the Evils of Distributism Mark Mitchell, Front Porch . . . . Continue Reading »
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