Joe Carter

The expansion of the GOP’s “Big Tent” to include ideas that social convervatives find distasteful is inevitable in today’s political climate. But I never would have suspected that Republican politicians would feel comfortable enough to champion themes and techniques that are . . . . Continue Reading »

In the New York Times , Jennifer Steinhauer observes that “ Snack Time Never Ends “: Not a month goes by without someone somewhere asking me to serve up some snack for an event that one of my children will attend and that, generally speaking, will not last more than 90 minutes . . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

NRO ‘s Mike Potemra discovers that new elected Senator Scott Brown is quirkily ecumenical : Brown is a member of a church affiliated with the Calvinist-rooted Christian Reformed Church in North America. If you go on the website of his congregation, New England Chapel in Franklin, Mass., you . . . . Continue Reading »

Last Monday I wrote about how a key claim in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report resembled a game of telephone rather than on carefully scrutinized research . Now another apocalyptic statement in the report turns out to be based on a report that was not even published, much . . . . Continue Reading »

Linguist John McWorter suggests it is time to revert from “African American” back to “black American” and leave the former term for the growing number of Americans that are actually from Africa: Namely, as of now, almost 1 in 10 black people are foreign-born. About 1 in 30 are . . . . Continue Reading »

Andrew Sullivan and I don’t agree on much, but we share a disgust for torture and the abuse of prisoners. I admire this about him and believe he has the potential to be a powerful and influential voice in the defense of human dignity. So it is unfortunate that he undercuts his own credibility . . . . Continue Reading »

What if I told you the only significant influence the President has on the economy is in selecting the Chairman of the Federal Reserve? While the role of the president in managing the economy is often overstated, most serious voters would rightly dismiss such a narrow claim as absurd. Yet how often . . . . Continue Reading »

In an article in the January issue of First Things , professor Reuven Brenner suggests revising immigration policy to maximize the influx of “the vital few whose contributions to economic growth is disproportionately high.” Jeffrey Mirus, president of CatholicCulture.org , believes this . . . . Continue Reading »

For his latest column in The Daily Beast , my friend and former colleague Conor Friedersdorf wonders why conservatives are not more concerned about the purported murder of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay: With their victory in Massachusetts, Republicans are eager to defeat the Democratic health-care . . . . Continue Reading »

The FBI recently released a “digitally-altered” image showing what Osama Bin Laden possibly looks like now that he’s older (see middle image). ”These new images are powerful examples of how advances in technology and science can be used to help find and bring to justice . . . . Continue Reading »