I don’t subscribe to this theory, frankly. Indeed, I doubt that the votes in the House for the “Cap and Tax” bill moved many votes at all on 11/2 (that was Obamacare and the economy). But Politico thinks I may be wrong. From the story:House Democrats who voted for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Artist Enrique Martínez Celaya is lecturing tomorrow night regarding Biblical themes in the show that Rusty reviewed here very positively. So consider strolling right past the upturned noses of the irreligious art world into the Museum of Biblical Art to hear something interesting. . . . . Continue Reading »
The descendants of Nathaniel Grigsby must have been voting yesterday. . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re reading this blog you are (probably) still alive, which means God prevented your hasty demise when you were an infant. The Lord spends a lot of his time watching over babies because they spend a lot of their time trying to find ways to get themselves killed : French media are . . . . Continue Reading »
Patents protect human inventions. Human genes are not human inventions. Hence, they should not be patentable. This simple truth seemed to escape previous administrations. But the Obamacans get it. From the story:Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday . . . . Continue Reading »
“Here’s the problem with ‘maybe’: It means different things to different people. And something always gets lost in translation . . . ,” writes Elizabeth Bernstein in The Many Powers of Maybe . “‘It seems to be about ambivalence, but it is really about power . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brody makes an astute observation : According to a Public Opinion Strategies poll that has assessed the Midterm Election results from Tuesday, (conducted for the Faith and Freedom Coalition) 52% of all people who identified themselves as part of the Tea Party movement are also conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
I am just shocked at the success of the campaign to usurp parental authority over (in particular) girls to the public health sector. Children who can’t receive aspirin without parental consent, receive abortions, birth control pills, and mental health counseling in many areas. And . . . . Continue Reading »
In Thoughts at the Alamo , today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel argues that the Mexican-American war was “from one point of view, a war by what was a sometimes-militantly Protestant country against what had long been a deeply Catholic country.” But it . . . . Continue Reading »
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