The hypocrisy of many of the most famous proponents of GWH has helped destroy the credibility of global warming generally. Al Gore’s many houses and notorious uses of private jets, Barbra Streisand, you get the picture. They talk the talk, but hardly walk the walk.Proponents of . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Friday Meghan Duke wrote about Kate, Prince William, and cohabitation before marriage . Meghan noted that cohabitation isn’t really practice for marriage. That’s certainly true, but she failed to address one of the advantages of cohabitation: “milk testing.” According to . . . . Continue Reading »
My son, now 15, aspires to be a Navy SEAL. I have little doubt that, when the time comes (barring unforeseen circumstances), he will be able to meet the physical requirements of SEAL training. The mental and emotional side of it remains to be seen, though these words are . . . . Continue Reading »
David Weiss on rediscovering his faith amid the ravages of mental illness : I have a group of three friends. We call ourselves the “bipolar buddies.” We all went to the same church, and we were the nerds, the kids with straight As and college scholarships. With a 3.8 GPA, I was the . . . . Continue Reading »
A good friend of mine was a good friend of the late, great philosopher, Eric Hoffer. Hoffer is best known for his scathing criticisms of totalitarian ideologies, particularly the book True Believer.I am currently nudging in my noodle that radical enviromentalism and related ideologies are . . . . Continue Reading »
After the royal wedding, television footage caught a church caretaker cartwheeling down the aisle where William and Kate wed. But Westminster Abbey is reportedly displeased that the footage was made public. Britain’s Sunday Mail reported that the caretaker was feeling “fairly . . . . Continue Reading »
I have not thus far weighed in on the controversy surrounding the publication of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. But I will call attention to an astute analysis of the “new universalism” by Calvin College’s James K. A. Smith: Can hope be wrong? On the new universalism. I was especially . . . . Continue Reading »
“The question isn’t so much whether it’s possible to be morally good without religion. It’s like saying is it possible to dig a hole with a teaspoon. Sure, but wouldn’t you rather do it with a backhoe?”Gayle spoke with Father Thomas Williams LC about . . . . Continue Reading »
I had an exchange with a facebook friend tonight about the momentous event of the killing of Osama bin Laden. This is surely a victory and a morale booster in what John McCain harkening back to cold war rhetoric called our “long twilight struggle.” In spite of such creepy rhetoric, it is . . . . Continue Reading »
“He has issues with his wife, and he has issues with his kids, financial issues, you know, the kids aren’t listening, the kids aren’t doing this and that. It comes down to (the fact) he’s a father and he’s a person.” So said 21-year-old Abdurahman Khadr about . . . . Continue Reading »
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