Peter Lawler

If you’re like me and couldn’t make it to Father Schall’s last lecture, you can watch it here . . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s not that I’ve been ignoring the great posts by Pete and Ralph. I just haven’t had time to respond to them. But I have been emailing back and forth on them with various distinguished conservative experts. Of course I agree with Pete, and soon enough everyone else will too. . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, even many or most REPUBLICANS think the president has a mandate to raise taxes . So that means he does, of course. The election has all the meaning that the president can attach it, and Obama is loading it up in a way that, say, Mr. Ceaser didn’t anticipate. I’m not saying that . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

Thoughts by me here. . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Is DeMint going to bring new ideas to Heritage?? He could hire Pete and allow him to clean house. 2. I’m agreeing with those who say that the Republicans now seem to have two principles: Don’t raise taxes on the wealthy and cut the entitlements (particularly Medicare) that everyone . . . . Continue Reading »

So I felt so guilty about Jason’s charge that I was somehow mocking or being nasty to Rod Dreher that I decided to repeat and add to what I’ve said before on crunchy analysis to at least get credit for think a lot about being a crunchy without actually being one. . . . . Continue Reading »

So I started to use an article by Rod Dreher to support my view that nonrelational personalism rather than progressivism is our distinctive issue these days. But I said too much silly stuff about the American and crunchy conservatives to get to it. . . . . Continue Reading »

So I’ve gotten a good number of emails and FACEBOOK messages on my FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS post. There are some LIBERAL ones that find it offensive. I’m okay with that. There are some TV CRITICAL ONES that say I overrate the show. The teenagers on FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHT are too precious and . . . . Continue Reading »