Global Warming Hysteria holds that we should destroy our national sovereignty by handing over our economies to an international, unaccountable technocracy run by the pathetically hapless UN, as we redistribute wealth from the West to pay destitute countries to stay destitute. (See the craziness that . . . . Continue Reading »
The nine justices on the Supreme Court are a surprisingly literary bunch . What do Nabokov, Hemingway, Montesquieu, Wittgenstein, Stendhal, Proust, Shakespeare, Dickens, Faulkner, Solzhenitsyn, and Trollope have in common? They’re all readily mentioned by Supreme Court Justices when . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning On the Square , Russ Saltzman writes his abbreviated Confessions, recounting how he stumbled into faith without ever “getting” religion: Far from being a “religious” person, I think of myself primarily as an ex-atheist. But just as there’s no such thing as an . . . . Continue Reading »
As fiscal pressures lead to cutbacks in the public sector, says Lewis M. Andrews , organized religious groups are stepping into the void: As much as America has suffered since the start of the financial crisis in 2007, there is no doubt that for many the situation is about to get worse. The . . . . Continue Reading »
I have found the ongoing discussion over the proposed San Francisco law outlawing circumcision from being performed in The City, very interesting. I thank the many commenters to my two recent previous posts (here and here) for their participation, frankness, and passion.It is that very passion . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know the ins and outs of the loss by the Republican in NY 26 House District. I know there was faux Tea Party spoiler candidate, and etc. But the MSM is claiming that it is a rebuke of Representative Paul Ryan’s idea of fixing Medicare—depicted above in a prime . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter’s column this week ponders Harold Camping’s most egregious flaw in his prediction of Judgment Day. It wasn’t, mind you, his inaccuracy or even his scandal to non-Christians, but, as Carter argues, his desire to reduce the gospel to a matter of mere calculation, and . . . . Continue Reading »
While the overall trend is encouraging, the increase in abortions among the poor is cause for concern : Abortion rates fell among most groups of women between 2000 and 2008, except for those classified as poor, finds an analysis conducted by the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute and published online . . . . Continue Reading »
So I use the occasion of this gracious review by Mr. Kienker to display my differences with our friends the Claremonsters. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on our Evangel blog, Gayle Trotter has an interview with former Senator Rick Santorum : GT: You think that President John F. Kennedy made a mistake about the role of religious faith in politics. What was his mistake? RS: Senator Kennedy — he was a senator at the time — made his . . . . Continue Reading »
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