Food Inflation Kept Hidden in Tinier Bags , reports the New York Times . Because the prices of raw materials are going up, food companies have developed various ways of maintaining their profits by hiding the fact that they’re offering less than they did before. Ms. Stauber, 33, said she . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently attended a film festival at Union University featuring the work of students. One of the first films shown was a thirty minute story about a young couple.The plot was simple and touching. A young man expresses his romantic interest in a waitress at a diner. They fall in . . . . Continue Reading »
Wednesday brings two of our On the Square web column’s most anticipated weekly pieces—Joe Carter’s and George Weigel’s. Today, Joe Carter brings to bear ” Six Thoughts About Jesus .” Here’s just one of his keen and original insights, on the “What . . . . Continue Reading »
PETA is anti human, and believes our moral worth is no greater than that of animals—or as Ingrid Newkirk once put it, “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” Showing its misanthropic tendencies, PETA is now running a contest to see who will be offered a free vasectomy after they . . . . Continue Reading »
Since homeschooling has been a hot top here the last couple of days, I thought I’d repost this entry from last year. Deborah Markus, at Secular Homeschooling , has a list of retorts for homeschooling parents tired of the inane questions and complaints they get about educating their own . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a huge controversy roiling PP about whether it should continue to receive federal funding. I say not. But that point aside, it has mounted the usual defense to deflect from its abortion services, sexualizing teenagers in its “sex education” services, and covering up of . . . . Continue Reading »
More than 500 students, parents and other supporters of a Catholic school in New Orleans marched on the offices of Archbishop Gregory Aymond to oppose his call for an end to the school’s policy of using corporal punishment : The protesters called on the archbishop to issue a “public, . . . . Continue Reading »
Could relics found in a Jordanian cave be the earliest Christian documents ever discovered ? The director of the Jordan’s Department of Antiquities, Ziad al-Saad, says the books might have been made by followers of Jesus in the few decades immediately following his crucifixion. “They . . . . Continue Reading »
It is amazing that activists in the pro life movement don’t get thoroughly dejected: They are scorned by the mainstream media. Their free speech rights are abridged in ways that would never be permitted of labor unions. They are looked down upon by celebrity culture and made fun of by . . . . Continue Reading »
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) never runs out of ideas to promote it’s a rat, is a pig, is a dog, is a boy, agenda. Now, it wants the publishers of a new translation of the Bible to personalize animals. From the story: Animal activists say the Bible needs to be more . . . . Continue Reading »