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Terry Mattingly reports on when Catholics gets a bit too casual : Deacon Greg Kandra was well aware that modern Americans were getting more casual and that these laid-back attitudes were filtering into Catholic pews. Still, was that woman who was approaching the altar to receive Holy Communion . . . . Continue Reading »

Hot new trend of the day: Philosophical counselors Murphy may have a PhD and an intimate knowledge of Aristotle and Descartes, but in her snug Takoma Park bungalow, she’s helping a broken-hearted patient struggle through a divorce. Instead of offering the wounded wife a prescription for . . . . Continue Reading »

Fix America’s Economy: Two Principles for Reform Public Discourse , Samuel Gregg National Cathedral damaged in earthquake CNN , Dan Gilgoff Anti-Mormon prejudice should concern Catholics National Post , Charles Lewis Is God a Problem? Modern Theology Faces its Alternatives AlbertMohler.com , . . . . Continue Reading »

Christianity Today ‘s Her.meneutics blog recently interviewed theologian Russell Moore about “Bachmann, the divorce culture, and why a feminist reading of Scripture would often be easier than a complementarian one.” As usual, I agree with Moore on just about everything, but I . . . . Continue Reading »

As I walked along the streets of Hiroshima I tried to imagine the city on fire. Fifty-six years earlier the atomic bomb “Little Boy” had set the area aflame, killing nearly a third of the population within twenty-four hours. According to the local prefectural health department estimates, of the people who perished on the day of the explosion, 60 percent died from flash or flame burns. Most of the dead were “noncombatants””innocent men, women, and children. … Continue Reading »

Overton Cultural Shift of the Day* : An English economist proposes that all young women, and in particular those who are without other benefits—financial, intellectual, situational—should be able to engage in legal prostitution: Hakim, a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics, . . . . Continue Reading »

Richard A. Epstein says both the Bishop of Rome and the Oracle of Omaha are dead wrong on economic policy : Denouncing those who put ‘profits before people’ may stir the masses, but it is a wickedly deformed foundation for social policy. Profits, like losses, do not exist in the abstract. . . . . Continue Reading »

Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter Public Discourse , Maggie Gallagher False Start? The Controversy Over Adam and Eve Heats Up AlbertMohler.com , Albert Mohler Muslims See Foreign Law Bill As Attack on Sharia Washington Times , Andrea Billups The Rugged Altruists New York Times, David Brooks . . . . Continue Reading »

So Grover Norquist, head of the libertarian Americans for Tax Reform, tweets: “If Keynesian economics worked—-shoplifting would create jobs.” In reply, Matt Yglesias, a fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund who has a BA in Philosophy from Harvard, thinks . . . . Continue Reading »

If you’ve been wondering, “What are odd rich libertarians dreaming of nowadays?” you now have an answer: ” seasteading “: Four years ago, a Clarium Capital employee came across a piece Friedman had written about an idea he called “seasteading.” Friedman was . . . . Continue Reading »