I have decided to document professional studies that reach conclusions that are so obvious one wonders why precious grant money was spent on doing the research: In an earlier episode, we found that rich and powerful men like to marry young and beautiful women. And now, we learn that teenage girls . . . . Continue Reading »
Both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal ran more or less the same editorial today. ” See No Good: Why do the Democratic candidates refuse to acknowledge progress in Iraq? ” is in the Post , and ” Democrats in Denial: The Presidential candidates won’t admit any . . . . Continue Reading »
One of our esteemed writers pointed me hither: Uwe Siemon-Netto’s disturbing experience at an English countryside Christmas church service . It sounds like a Monty Python sketch. The only thing missing is the vicar’s pulling out a set of plates and smashing them on the pulpit to get the . . . . Continue Reading »
This blurb appears in the New York Times today: Plans to exhume the body of Padre Pio, left, Italy’s favorite saint, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death have been met with fierce opposition from followers . . . . Over the weekend, Archbishop Domenico Umberto D’Ambrosio . . . . Continue Reading »
The Seattle Times has this about one Lutheran church in a Nairobi slum attempting to cope with the inter-tribal massacres spawned by the recent presidential election. I couldn’t help but think of this, from Luther’s book of Spiritual Consolations : “If the devil could keep peace, . . . . Continue Reading »
I was just speaking on the phone to a Washington lawyer who wants to contribute a piece to First Things , and in the course of our rambling conversation he proposed a thesis about the current struggles over immigration. It was one of those nonce theses—proposed in a conversation just to test . . . . Continue Reading »
Why would animal rights thugs act better when being threatening to hurt people wins battles? Like in the Netherlands recently, when a plan to build a science park was immediately abandoned when the thugs began to threaten direct action. From the story:Threats by animal rights activists have led to a . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of the Mirror of Justice blog, they’ve been having a great exchange on city planning, natural law, the New Urbanists, sprawl, and much more. The exchange started with Eduardo M. Peñalver’s op/ed in the Washington Post , and elicited comments here , here , here , h . . . . Continue Reading »
“I’m the spiritual offspring of Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor—or, more accurately, I’d like to be. For now, I’m just a young(ish) guy who has had a gradually deepening appreciation of his Catholic faith, and of the profound difference that faith makes.” . . . . Continue Reading »
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