President Obama’s oil spill speech Tuesday night was a disappointment to most and was positively trashed by the Olbermann-Matthews cheerleading section at MSNBC. Ostensibly in crisis mode after the speech’s poor reception, CNN sought an alternative narrative from Paul J.J. Payack , . . . . Continue Reading »
At Slate , Rosecrans Baldwin notices that novelists are quite attuned to the sound of a dog barking in the distance: Novelists can’t resist including a dog barking in the distance. I’ve seen it happen across the spectrum—Jackie Collins, William Faulkner, and Chuck Palahniuk: . . . . Continue Reading »
“The scientists” used to say that embryonic stem cell research provided the primary, perhaps “only” hope for treatments of degenerative conditions like Parkinson’s and spinal cord injury. This hype, willfully shoveled by Big Biotech and spread by its willing . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal research is crucial to the quest to find treatments for the worst human illnesses. Toward this end, UK scientists are genetically altering pigs so that they will be born with currently incurable human diseases so that they can be used in drug research looking for effective . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope Benedict devoted the talk at yesterday’s general audience to a full throated commendation of the theology of St. Thomas. After detailing the way in which the Angelic Doctor gets the relation of faith and reason just right, the Pope concludes : St. Thomas offers us a wide and enduring . . . . Continue Reading »
Something a parent thinks about: Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer : People between 20 and 34 are taking longer to finish their educations, establish themselves in careers, marry, have children and become financially independent . . . . Marriage and parenthood — once seen as . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Neglected Fireplace: Protestantism and the Arts , today’s “On the Square” article, Matthew Milliner argues that “Protestant churches have come to a new level of liturgical maturity, understanding the necessity for restraint, humility, and historical precedent . . . . Continue Reading »
It is now a joke, really. But now the warnings of increasingly dire soon-to-be calamities caused by global warming have reached the ultimate end—human extinction. From the column by Andrew Bolt: WE humans are about to be wiped out in a few decades. The grandchildren of many of us . . . . Continue Reading »
In May of last year, Joseph Bottum gave account in “ At the Gates of Notre Dame ” of the perfect storm set in motion by the University of Notre Dame’s public veneration of President Obama, which brought preexisting tensions between public Catholicism and university life to a head. . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy Dalrymple offers an intriguingly persuasive case that Tea Party movement could be considered a social justice campaign: Since it is intent on the formation of a more accountable and more restrained government that will better serve the interest of all Americans: Is the Tea Party . . . . Continue Reading »
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