Australia’s suicide obsessed Philip Nitschke is bringing his how-to-kill-yourself class to the USA. I have a piece about his planned San Francisco suicide lecture in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. From the column:Shouldn’t there be limits to assisted-suicide permissiveness? . . . . Continue Reading »
As Hebrews 11 reminds us we are a Faith with great heroes. Some men and women are given the grace to do great feats for God and this weekend the Church honored them. Today is a lesser known celebration: the Feast of All Souls, a day to remember all the faithful departed. Put mythically: If yesterday . . . . Continue Reading »
This should not be a surprise to anyone : Edmunds.com, the premier resource for online automotive information, has determined that Cash for Clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle sold. Nearly 690,000 vehicles were sold during the Cash for Clunkers program, officially known as CARS, but . . . . Continue Reading »
How Tim Challies stays employed is utterly beyond my understanding because he writes more stuff pretty much for free than ought to be legal, let alone moral.And I’ll be honest: I like Tim personally but I find a lot of his blogging a little dry. But I saw him undertaking a project over at the . . . . Continue Reading »
There have been interesting polling, occasionally reported here, about how the country seems to be moving in a pro life direction, with the Gallup Poll now showing a majority opposing abortion. One reason seems to be that improved imaging techniques have verified the humanity of gestating . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Secular Right , David Hume has words for our PAL: Though the author of Atheist Delusions is an Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher, Lawler reports that his criticism of the New Atheists starts from a Nietzschian perspective. All I have to say is that homey dont play that game. . . . . Continue Reading »
English-speaking Calvinists are generally familiar with the acronym TULIP, which is a handy way of remembering the principal doctrines of Reformed Christianity:Total depravityUnconditional electionLimited atonementIrresistible gracePerseverance of the saintsHowever, given that some might see TULIP . . . . Continue Reading »
No more Mr. Nice Guy. Over at Asia Times Online this morning, I devoted my “Spengler” essay to the “idiot twins of American idealism.”Former president George W Bush thought that the United States could turn Kabul into Peoria, the archetypal American city in the state of . . . . Continue Reading »
I propose a neologism, “to stiggle,” meaning to make uneconomic loans for political reasons, in honor of Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. If only we had nationalized the banks, he complains, we would have been able to force the banks to make uneconomic loans that they did not wish to . . . . Continue Reading »
Peggy Noonan asks why the clever young people in charge of the Obama administration fail to notice how much the rest of us are hurting:When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and come up each day with new ways to spend and taxhealth care, cap and trade, . . . . Continue Reading »