The environmental movement grows increasingly authoritarian in its tendencies and proposals. Today, in the San Francisco Chronicle, local Green bullies tout a proposal to outlaw the free distribution of the Yellow Pages. From the column by SF Supervisor David Chiu (and two others):San . . . . Continue Reading »
The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends: A preliminary U.S. Navy plan to allow its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages in military chapels after the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” has fired . . . . Continue Reading »
What do judges wear beneath their black robes? Mostly likely tie-dyed t-shirts, hemp belts, and peace symbols. For despite their seemingly conventionalist exterior, the music they cite in their legal opinions and briefs reveals they are a bunch of closet hippies: No musician’s lyrics are more . . . . Continue Reading »
I enjoy stories where animal rights radicalism conflicts with radical environmentalism. We appear to have such a case here. Apparently fuel prices are making it increasingly hard for farmers to make a profit (undoubtedly true), so they have resorted to using oxen to plow the . . . . Continue Reading »
Philosopher Roger Scruton on beauty and desecration : At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, “beauty” would have been the answer. And if you had asked what the point of that was, you would have learned that . . . . Continue Reading »
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In my OTS column last week, I criticized conservatism’s unquestioned allegiance to federalism , saying that we should be for more checks and balances and limits on government, rather than a mere shifting of power from federal to state authorities. Several of my conservative buddies whose . . . . Continue Reading »
So ever since First Things posted the May issue online and the commenters (commentators?) got busy, David Bentley Hart’s uproarious takedown of Ayn Rand has led in the generation-of-comments category. For days on end I despaired of my article ” Religion, Reason, and Same-Sex . . . . Continue Reading »
The National Catholic Register notes that traditional-marriage advocates say social scientists won’t report how divorce, single parenting, and step-parenting hurt children: Social scientists are concealing the harm that divorce, single parenting and stepfamilies do to children. Not only that, . . . . Continue Reading »
The new Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board-approved advance medical . . . . Continue Reading »
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