So when, at the last debate, Gingrich was asked why he got paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac, he said he offered them “advice as a historian.” I’m guessing that the most innocent plausible scenario is that the advice went "something like this" Today it turns out that . . . . Continue Reading »
There is something about this late afternoon that made me think, “This is a good time for some Billy Collins action poetry.” So here is some Billy Collins action poetry: Forgetfulness The Country Walking Across the Atlantic You can find eight other videos here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, that didn’t take long. The Olympian has editorialized in favor of the assisted suicide law to allow “euthanasia” beyond assisted suicide for the terminally ill. From a column by a member of the Olympian Board of Contributors:To improve the chances of passage, the . . . . Continue Reading »
In her recent cover story for the The Atlantic , All the Single Ladies , Kate Bolick argues that since traditional marriage is on its way out, we ought to “embrace new ideas about marriage and family.” Rachel Motte reminds us that there is an alternative approach: Though I was deep . . . . Continue Reading »
I just read Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo. A few of my family members recommended it very strongly. The main attraction is that Mr. Burpo’s son nearly died of acute, misdiagnosed appendicitis and survived to report that he had been to Heaven. Young Colton Burpo . . . . Continue Reading »
The in-the-tank media is huffing and puffing, trying to make something important out of an entirely predictable recommendation by the Royal Society of Canada commission to legalize euthanasia. But commissions can be created to obtain a specific result, as this one was and did.In . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column, George Weigel remembers trade union activist Bill Doherty : Bill Doherty was one of the great Catholic laymen of twentieth-century America. A bear of a man who had been a defensive lineman at Catholic University during his student days, Bill dedicated his . . . . Continue Reading »
What a debacle is our non beloved Obamacare, what an awful mess. Now, we find that the law does not provide for premium subsidies if the states do not set up insurance exchanges. From a Wall Street Journal column by Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon: The . . . . Continue Reading »
According to a new report by the CDC , fewer kids today are engaging in sexual intercourse during their teenage years than they were just a decade ago. This finding will likely shock Hollywood producers, comprehensive sex ed advocates, and others who think teenagers are mindless bundles of hormones . . . . Continue Reading »
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