Uncertainty on Wall Street

by Joe Carter

First Things senior editor David Goldman appeared last night on the Kudlow Report to discuss the continued risks to the financial system. Part I Part II . . . . Continue Reading »

12 May 2010 0

There Are No Postmodernists In Electric Chairs

by Joe Carter

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris on the epistemological equivalent of “There are no atheists in foxholes”: It has become fashionable nowadays to speak of the subjectivity or the relativity of truth. I find such talk ridiculous at best. Let’s go back to Randall Dale Adams. He . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

Links to my Kudlow Report appearance this evening

by David P. Goldman

Here are the links to the two segments of the Kudlow Report on which I appeared earlier this . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

Breaking News from the PR Department

by Joseph Bottum

Has Noah’s Ark Been Found? , asks the blaring headline of the press release from the PR firm Hamilton Strategies that just showed up in my inbox. And the answer? Ah, the italicized subhead explains, “Dr. Alex McFarland, President of Southern Evangelical Seminary, Says It Doesn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

Proper Palliative Sedation Not Same as Assisted Suicide’s “Terminal Sedation”

by Wesley J. Smith

The assisted suicide movement is ever about blurring vital distinctions and deconstructing crucial definitions. One target has been the proper pain control technique known as palliative sedation, a rarely required procedure in which patients near death are sedated to control pain or other symptoms . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

A Not So Happy Birthday

by Meghan Duke

The anniversary of the Pill is, as Gail Collins phrased it in her celebratory  op-ed , a moveable feast. The FDA actually approved the Pill on June 23, 1960, but it announced its intentions to do so on May 9 and a Mothers Day celebration of the Pill was just too good for the media to resist. . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

A Strangeness in the Land

by Joseph Bottum

I suppose it’s one way to solve the problem: CNN reported a few minutes ago that the Mojave Cross , which had been the cause of a recent Supreme Court decision, has disappeared—stolen by vandals. There is a strangeness in the land: a hatred of religion that’s sharp, palpable, and . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

Electronic Diversions

by Joseph Bottum

Yesterday, I took a swipe at President Obama for his big-think about how “information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. ” I still think it’s not presidential to be a . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

Are Jews the New WASPs?

by Joe Carter

Philip Weiss makes an intriguing argument that Jews are replacing WASPs as the American Establishment—and explains why it won’t last: The Kagan appointment means that we have entered a period in which Jews are equal members, if not actually predominant members, of the American . . . . Continue Reading »

11 May 2010 0

Guess What’s Wrong With the Unemployment Numbers

by David P. Goldman

The US employment picture is not as rosy as official statistics claim, according to Union Bank of Switzerland economists. In a May 10 note to clients UBS economists wrote: As we suggested in yesterday’s Comments, Friday’s non-farm payroll numbers got swallowed up by the on-going worries . . . . Continue Reading »

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