So the reason you’ve been missing me is that I just attended a really intensive John Adams Center conference at BYU. The conference was on the family—and included all kinds of incredible presentations. Paul Rahe turns out to be quite the defender of the traditional family from many . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat really nails it. Many of our governing elites (personified by Jon Corzine) are, for all of their alleged intelligence and sophistication, engines of destruction. They don’t know what they can’t control and end up producing chaos. . . . . Continue Reading »
I knew this was true, but it is nice to see someone so close to the Obama Administration, namely Ezekiel Emanuel, say it. Emanuel used to be the head bioethicist at the NIH and was one of President Obama’s primary advisers on healthcare issues. He is now a professor of . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has a sickening story on how badly helpless and vulnerable people with develomental disabilities are treated in state care. (This is an issue I have seen first hand, once caring for a developmentally disabled man who was terribly abused while in state care.) From, . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m watching the Gingrich/Cain debate thing. I don’t think I’ll make it all the way through. The Medicare discussion is tough to watch. Gingrich is doing better, but I’m liking Cain more the more I watch. Gingrich is trying to dig out from the . . . . Continue Reading »
Cesarean sections will soon be treated as a lifestyle right in the UK, rather than a surgical procedure properly restricted to women who demonstrate a therapeutic need. And, it will not only be “on demand” for those women who don’t wish to experience the travail of . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been a little negative (okay, very negative) about the GOP presidential field in recent weeks, so I should give credit where it is due. Good speech by Romney today. Taken in outline, the spending cuts and entitlement reforms he talks about are probably big enough to avoid . . . . Continue Reading »
I have watched with some trepidation the evolution (or is it devolution?) of the faith-based initiative in the Obama Administration. The latest straw in the wind may be pretty close to the last one for me. Essentially , the Obama Administration has excluded the U.S. Conference of Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
As an evangelical who attends a congregation that has replaced hymnals in the pews with PowerPoint on a jumbo-screen, I’m in no position to mock other church’s use of technology. But I thought it’d be fun to throw this out as red meat for my old-school Catholic readers: Monsignor . . . . Continue Reading »
In my Occupy Wall Street’s Empty Anger on Monday, I wrote about the group — for whom “movement” would be too binding a term — and its lack of any end or purpose that would make their anger effective — to the extent that anger isn’t part of an inner personal . . . . Continue Reading »
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