You see? We aren’t the only ones to think the president is messing up the space program. “Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides,” the astronaut corps writes Obama , “the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to . . . . Continue Reading »
You know I remember when the war first broke out, and we all said to each other, OK, we have to learn the “stans.” You know? It’s not just Kyrgyzstan, but you’ve got all the other stans in that area. — Kyra Phillips discovers that land wars in Asia force CNN anchors to . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend, still cross at the Mormon Glenn Beck for telling Christians to leave their churches, wrote last night asking if Mormonism is a form of Christianity or another religion, and I would be grateful for your thoughts. There are a couple of tests, it seems to me. One is the teaching of the major . . . . Continue Reading »
During my years volunteering for hospice, I had a patient named Bob. Bob was dying of ALS, and told me he had been suicidal for more than two years, to the point, he told me, that if he could have gone to Kevorkian, he would have taken the flight. (He later changed his mind and was very . . . . Continue Reading »
Um, David, when I said “enough already,” I meant, like, enough, already. Let it go. . . . . Continue Reading »
From Fr. James Schall, one of the good Jesuits: Hatred of the Church? A sample: If Benedict XVI has brought anything to the fore in Catholic theology, it is the nature and necessity of “judgment” of the acts we put into the world. This judgment is what Spe Salvi , among other things, is . . . . Continue Reading »
Doug Wilson argues that without property rights there are no human rights: As Christians talk about governmental thieveries, the discussion of these issues in America has an additional layer, and that layer, just like all the others, is unfriendly to tyrants. I want to argue that property is a . . . . Continue Reading »
Nebraska has outlawed abortions after 20 weeks on the grounds that by then, the fetus has developed the structures necessary to feel pain. From the story:Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska signed a law on Tuesday banning most abortions 20 weeks after conception or later on the theory that a fetus, . . . . Continue Reading »
John Podhoretz excoriated me for a characterization of Barack Obama that has earned wide if not universal acceptance among conservatives. Surely he protests too much. John is a very good journalist; if he had read my essays rather than react to a one-line reference to them in a blog post, I am . . . . Continue Reading »
This was published in the 12 April issue of the Canadian periodical Christian Courier:In our society it is not difficult for people to believe in the immortality of the human soul. Even where Christian faith is not necessarily robust, public opinion polls persistently show a majority of North . . . . Continue Reading »
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