Matthew Schmitz

In 2004 Michelle Obama wrote a campaign letter on behalf of her husband’s campaign saying that killing a child when it was halfway out of the womb was a “legitimate medical procedure” (thus clarifying her husband’s idea of what constitutes a “surgical” . . . . Continue Reading »

Last night Mitt Romney repeated a silly attack on Obama and failed to flank him on foreign policy. If we’re to consider truth in judging debates (and I certainly think we should), Romney lost. This is just what I predicted on Bloggingheads over the weekend: Many pundits have committed . . . . Continue Reading »

Watch out, America. Post-modern hero of the silver screen Nicholas Cage is in talks to star in a reboot of the  Left Behind  series: Nicolas Cage is in negotiations to topline “Left Behind,” a mainstream reboot of the Christian-themed movie trilogy that will mark the first . . . . Continue Reading »

A new poll suggests that a majority of parents in New York City oppose distribution of Plan B to high school students: Fifty-three percent of New Yorkers think that Department of Education should not be dispensing Plan B to high school students. A poll commissioned by the  Chiaroscuro . . . . Continue Reading »

The article is behind a paywall, but a short  news item from the  Tablet (where Haldane’s piece is published) gives the gist: A leading academic has said the Catholic Church urgently needs to overturn its centuries-old ban on ordaining married men to ease the shortage of priests and . . . . Continue Reading »

Many of my pro-life friends are passing around this video as evidence that Romney has betrayed them on the social issues. While it indeed does portray Romney as a squishy moderate on abortion, the position it argues for is  exactly that of  George W. Bush  and  John McCain : No . . . . Continue Reading »

Romney got in a couple of good lines about the President’s fraught relationship with the Catholic Church at last night’s Al Smith Dinner: The President has put his own stamp on relations with the Church. There have been some awkward moments. Like when the President pulled Pope Benedict . . . . Continue Reading »

The Daily Beast reports: After a marathon meeting to decide his fate, the board of trustees of The King’s College, a small evangelical college based in Manhattan, announced Thursday that conservative author Dinesh D’Souza had resigned as the school’s president. Former president and . . . . Continue Reading »

French counter-enlightenment thinker Louis de Bonald’s uniquely strong proposal for discouraging divorce, as summarized by Mark Henrie: If divorce is allowed at all, therefore, parents should be treated as deceased and the children raised as wards of the state. This follows because “a . . . . Continue Reading »

The National Catholic Register has a piece discussing the frustration of many at the treatment (or lack of treatment, rather) of the issue of religious freedom in the debates, citing Anna Williams’ disappointment at Tuesday’s spectacle: On the  First Things  website, Anna . . . . Continue Reading »