Christians love unions and conservatives should as well.From Poland to West Virginia, unions, organized workers, have checked the power of tyrants and helped working people.This is obvious. It is equally clear that any group is corrupted when it becomes too powerful. Unions in the United States . . . . Continue Reading »
I find it amusing that the Dutch media think this is a big story. Doctors have been euthanizing patients who never asked to be killed almost from the inception of the country’s euthanasia license, and nothing meaningful is done about it. (Worst case scenario: Keep medical license, receive 2 . . . . Continue Reading »
Whatever the merits of the complaints against Hermann Cain conservatives should not make the mistake of minimizing the harm done by sexual harassment. In a few places, I have read good-hearted folk misunderstanding the entire issue.They act as if there is no moral issue to sexual harassment at all. . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy S. Goeglein, former Special Assistant to President Bush, may have just invented a new genre with his memoir The Man in the Middle : the non-vindictive insider tell all. His book about his eight years in the White House, The Man in the Middle could have easily sought an indictment of . . . . Continue Reading »
Mississippi Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Measure New York Times , Katharine Q. Seelye On War and Redemption New York Times , Timothy Kudo Why We’d Be Miserable In a World Without Religion Slate , Elizabeth Weingarten No Evidence for Extraterrestrials, Says White House BBC So You Want to Do . . . . Continue Reading »
!. Cain announces this morning he “ain’t quitting.” Cool phrasing, but . . . 2. Here’s my post on the possible Puritanical dimension of American HIGHER EDUCATION . 3. Not looking forward to the debate tonight. The Republicans used to be a serious party. . . . . Continue Reading »
Karen Swallow Prior interviews pastor Tim Keller about his new book, The Meaning of Marriage : One of the paradoxes you talk about is how the commitment of marriage actually produces freedom: the freedom to be truly ourselves, the freedom to be fully known, the freedom to be there in the future for . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare is profoundly unpopular. Ohio provided vivid evidence of that disdain today, when voters by about 2-1 rejected Obamacare’s individual mandate. From the Plain Dealer story:With more than 1.5 million votes tallied, Ohio Issue 3 is winning with more than 66 percent of voters . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends at the Discovery Institute are publishing a monthly on-line newsletter, edited by moi, called The Human Exceptionalist. It is the next step up for the Center for Human Exceptionalism, of which I am co-director.As readers of SHS know, I believe that anti humanism is one of the major . . . . Continue Reading »
Mississippi’s “personhood” amendment may pass later today. Public Policy Polling found that, hours before today’s vote, 45 percent of voters supported the amendment, while 44 percent opposed. The amendment, or Initiative #26 , asks: “Should the term . . . . Continue Reading »
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