For those who may not get enough of me here (ha!), I was interviewed a bit ago on the radio, and it has been posted on You Tube. I embedded it for anyone interested. Carry . . . . Continue Reading »
I have already opened my big fat mouth about this a couple of times here, but I’m finding it hard to resist another attempt to make myself clear. For me, the political issue has nothing to do with whether Mormons are or are not Christians . The Presidency is not a religious office , though it . . . . Continue Reading »
Relations between the Obama administration and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops haven’t exactly been smooth, to say the least. For the past several years, beginning with the battle over the “Stupak amendment” and running through the ongoing dispute over the . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Seth Chalmer warns about the dangers of looking for someone to blame for our current economic crisis : Yes, it is true: there are Jews Occupying Wall Street—not only in the banks, but at the barricades. The High Holidays brought hundreds of such Jews . . . . Continue Reading »
is HERE . It includes, as all good journals do, an article by ME—on the connection between individualism and our entitlement crisis. It also includes a very profound yet very “with it” article by Gladden Pappin. . . . . Continue Reading »
While some of my closest friends are Catholics, I’m not, so I wouldn’t have had a vote in this poll to determine America’s ten greatest Catholic intellectuals. The current list: The Catholic Hall of Fame’s Greatest American Catholic intellectuals, in the order of their . . . . Continue Reading »
What a demagogue, devoid of intellectual integrity, lying about a bill that would certainly not prevent dying women from being treated medically in an abortion situation.In the above embedded video, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) claims that under the terms of the “Protect Life . . . . Continue Reading »
I am appearing next Wednesday night as part of a town hall about end of life care, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Would love it if some local SHSers turned out an introduced yourselves.In advance of said panel discussion and audience Q and A session, I have a piece . . . . Continue Reading »
What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? The Christian Post , Albert Mohler, Jr. Obama is not the Pharaoh Middlebrow , John Mark Reynolds Preparing for a Way Out of Afghanistan New York Times , C.J. Chivers House Votes To Stop Health Care Law Abortions USA Today , Associated Press Obama Promises . . . . Continue Reading »
Clark Neily of the Institute for Justice believes that the courts are systematically failing to enforce constitutional limits on government power—though not necessarily in the way that conservatives think it happens : Broadly speaking, judges can make two types of errors in exercising judicial . . . . Continue Reading »
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