In the latest issue of First Things , Mary Eberstadt examines the gluttony of pornographic consumption in America: As the impressively depressing cover story “America the Obese” in the May issue of The Atlantic serves to remind us all, the weight-gain epidemic in the United States and the . . . . Continue Reading »
What do you do if you’re a third-rate beauty pageant desperate for attention? If you’re the Donald Trump owned Miss USA contest you stick with a winning formula: ask beautiful woman culture war questions : Rima Fakih (Miss Michigan), a Lebanese immigrant who told pageant organizers her . . . . Continue Reading »
Jewish leaders remain unpersuaded by chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s mea culpa for “screwed up messaging” about Israel:The Obama administration has “screwed up the messaging” about its support for Israel over the past 14 months, and it will take “more than one month . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the junior fellows passed on the link to a Republican congressional candidate’s comments on her primary opponent’s six children : With little to distinguish her on issues or experince with her opponent, lawyer Keith Rothfus, she has settled on making the case that he has . . . . Continue Reading »
HBO tells us “You Don’t Know Jack,” referring to Jack Kevorkian, played by Al Pacino in HBO’s recent movie of the same name, or as some might call it, a hagiography of Dr. Death. Kevorkian came to notoriety in the 1990’s as a leading advocate of assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »
I warned and warned—here at SHS, on radio talk shows, in speeches—that the real dirty work of Obamacare would be done quietly, behind the scenes, by an army of faceless bureaucrats who will be directed to add the devil in the details of the bill. Moreover, I prophesied, the bad . . . . Continue Reading »
Two well known strands of Protestant theology are the Calvinist and Arminian. There are a number of differences between these two schools but one of them keys on soteriology (salvation). Calvinists would hold that once a person is saved, he is always saved. Arminians dispute this idea. Consider the . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an awful story about a suicide obsessed man named William F. Melchert-Dinkel, who allegedly helped counsel and teach the suicidal—including a Canadian college girl—to do the deed over the Internet. He has been criminally charged with assisting suicide in two cases. From . . . . Continue Reading »
“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo . . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Language Log blog , a note of a story much-reported on the web the past few days: Richard Smith, a 41-year-old care worker in Carlisle, England, did not think his name did justice to the exciting person that he actually was, so he changed his name by deed poll. The new name he chose was . . . . Continue Reading »
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