1. So the advice to Romney about not choking is sound. He certainly shouldn’t be attacking Perry. David Brooks on THE NEW HOUR gave him the ridiculous advice of trying to taint Rick wtih corruption, of portraying him as just another Delay. It doesn’t seem to me that Perry is . . . . Continue Reading »
I think that prisoners should have a less robust right to refuse medical treatment than the rest of us because they, by definition, have lost their right to personal autonomy. This isn’t to say it shouldn’t exist, but it is to say that prison officials should have a limited ability . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a parody. It must be. A normal hurricane, not huge as these things go and the first to hit the USA in three years, takes an unusual—but certainly not unprecedented—path up the East Coast’s most populated areas, and the hysterics start screaming about global . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Future of Capitalism , Ira Stoll suggests that, with Hurricane Irene making landfall, we can expect to hear the usual complaints about, and defenses of, price gouging: If the usual pattern holds, opportunistic politicians will soon be out denouncing price-gouging connected with Hurricane . . . . Continue Reading »
How refreshing. The media so often focus on doctor-prescribed death advocates and social outlaws like Kevorkian, that people who do really good, compassionate, and important work with people who are dying rarely receive their due. That is why I am very happy to see a front page SF . . . . Continue Reading »
Rock intellectualizing’s third basic flaw is its captivity to bohemian/New Left assumptions regarding morals, culture, and politics. The Songbook will examine rock’s largely uncritical promotion of the sexual revolution as it unfolds, but here we consider the oddity of its leftism. On one . . . . Continue Reading »
Shannen Coffin and Rich Lowry argue that Romney would look desperate and inauthentic if he were to attack Perry now. He would also open himself up to some devastating counterpunches. All true, but Romney is in a tough situation (or as tough as it could be in August.) I think . . . . Continue Reading »
“We’re all contradictory. We all have the potential for great good and the potential for great sin — that’s the human condition.”Gayle recently spoke with Father John Bartunek, a priest in the order of the Legion of Christ, a religious congregation. Father . . . . Continue Reading »
The pacifists’ choice of ‘America the Beautiful’ over the National Anthem is causing controversy on a Mennonite campus : The Star-Spangled Banner may yet wave over Goshen College in Indiana, but no one’s going to be singing about it. The Mennonite campus is dropping the . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent survey claims that American women are rapidly falling away from religion. But is that really true? Rodney Stark and Byron Johnson explain why the decline is implausible —and why you should be skeptical of reporting on surveys about religion: The national news media yawned over the . . . . Continue Reading »
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