In response to Michael Moore’s new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, the Acton Institute has produced a four-minute video rebuttal that makes the case that it was government meddling with the free market—not free markets—that led to the current financial crisis. . . . . Continue Reading »
Kate Harding at Salon.com should get the last word on the Roman Polanski affair—for she says everything that needs to be said . . . . . Continue Reading »
Bought two posters depicting the Holy Trinity yesterday for my First Communion class. This first one, the “Old Testament Trinity Icon,” I know well and love. I especially love the idea of the Trinity’s quiet intervention, as mysterious guests, to set in motion a history which will . . . . Continue Reading »
I monitor blogs and stories that involve human exceptionalism. Recently, I noticed a recent upswing in Darwinists railing against the idea that human beings have unique moral value. In essence, they say, we are just animals: Get used to it.That theme is found in review of a motion picture . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I don’t know Mr. Casey Khan, but this commen t over at the Front Porch struck me as insightful and brilliant! That may not be the way you’ll describe it, but, hey, everyone has an opinion. . . . . Continue Reading »
From William Easterly’s paper, ” Can the West Save Africa? ” [PDF] Most of the emphasis in project-specific efforts has been in addressing problems of illiteracy, disease, low agricultural productivity (possibly linked to land tenure practices, to be discussed more in the . . . . Continue Reading »
William Safire, the inimitable wordsmith and pundit, died yesterday at the age of seventy-nine . To younger generations, Safire is most well-known for the three decades’ worth of columns he wrote for the New York Times . But before he was a columnist, he was a speechwriter for the Nixon . . . . Continue Reading »
After my last post on Glenn Beck I told myself I wouldn’t bother mentioning him again on this blog. There isn’t much I could add to the criticisms—from the left, right, and center—that have been made against him in the last few weeks. His recent comments have shown that . . . . Continue Reading »
The biotech agenda has never been about stem cell research. That is only a stage. The ultimate agenda is Brave New World, e.g. genetic engineering, reproductive cloning, post humanism, and anything goes. This has been hidden for political reasons, but with the hated Bush’s stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »
I was very privileged to be able to attend a lecture by Alasdair MacIntyre at Catholic University here in DC over the weekend. The topic was “Ends and Endings”, and the speech was a delightfully rambling overview of the connections between teleology and literature, ethics and . . . . Continue Reading »
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