Ryan Sayre Patrico

What will kids think of next: Summit Middle School in Frisco, Colo., is a tobacco-free campus. Students who smoke cigarettes are suspended. But when a lunchtime crew of sixth-graders last fall started “smoking” Smarties, the tart, chalky candy discs wrapped in cellophane, lunchroom . . . . Continue Reading »

The news is dreadful: According to the Census, since 2006 we have been living in a republic where, for the first time in the history of the republic, Americans drink more bottled water than we drank beer. Why is this important? It’s important because beer is a socially oriented beverage, and . . . . Continue Reading »

At least, that what atheist philosopher Daniel Dennett thinks . He argues that “we’re robots made of robots made of robots made of robots.” In other words, the brain is made up of millions upon millions of neurons, and each of those neurons is made up of eukaryotic cells, and each . . . . Continue Reading »

Roger Clegg at NRO remarks on the government’s new report on birth rates and what it says about births out of wedlock: The government released its preliminary data for 2007 births today, finding, “All measures of childbearing by unmarried women increased in the United States to historic . . . . Continue Reading »

A federal report released yesterday reveals that more babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation’s history, “even surpassing the number of deliveries during the height of the baby boom that followed World War II.” After World War II, the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Association of Compassionate Christian Caregivers today severely criticized traditional Catholic teaching on marital “love” and called upon the churches to encourage wife-beating Africans to take the “prudent, practical steps” to reduce the risk of HIV infection when . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh , the innocence of youth: Cars torched, firefighters attacked, police bombarded and neighbors terrified: It was another fine St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, where inebriated mobs annually turn districts of Dublin and Belfast into a nightmare. Authorities were counting the cost Wednesday from . . . . Continue Reading »

A chaplain working for a hospice in Boca Raton, Florida has quit her job after the care center banned using the words “God” and “Lord” in public: Chaplains still speak freely of the Almighty in private sessions with patients or families but, the Rev. Mirta Signorelli said: . . . . Continue Reading »

Now atheists in Britain are forming “The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies,” a student group that will organize “campaigns and events across the country to protest against religious privilege and promote the understanding of science.” If . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things goes international! I’m sure you’ve already read today’s daily article, “Keep the Fast, Keep the Feast” by Peter Leithart in English . But now you can do it again in German . . . . . Continue Reading »