So I’m watching the Gingrich/Cain debate thing. I don’t think I’ll make it all the way through. The Medicare discussion is tough to watch. Gingrich is doing better, but I’m liking Cain more the more I watch. Gingrich is trying to dig out from the . . . . Continue Reading »
Cesarean sections will soon be treated as a lifestyle right in the UK, rather than a surgical procedure properly restricted to women who demonstrate a therapeutic need. And, it will not only be “on demand” for those women who don’t wish to experience the travail of . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been a little negative (okay, very negative) about the GOP presidential field in recent weeks, so I should give credit where it is due. Good speech by Romney today. Taken in outline, the spending cuts and entitlement reforms he talks about are probably big enough to avoid . . . . Continue Reading »
I have watched with some trepidation the evolution (or is it devolution?) of the faith-based initiative in the Obama Administration. The latest straw in the wind may be pretty close to the last one for me. Essentially , the Obama Administration has excluded the U.S. Conference of Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
As an evangelical who attends a congregation that has replaced hymnals in the pews with PowerPoint on a jumbo-screen, I’m in no position to mock other church’s use of technology. But I thought it’d be fun to throw this out as red meat for my old-school Catholic readers: Monsignor . . . . Continue Reading »
In my Occupy Wall Street’s Empty Anger on Monday, I wrote about the group — for whom “movement” would be too binding a term — and its lack of any end or purpose that would make their anger effective — to the extent that anger isn’t part of an inner personal . . . . Continue Reading »
For the past few weeks I’ve been unable to understand the reasoning behind the claims that income inequality is a moral issue that only applies at the group level. Then it came to me like an epiphany—or more accurately, as a Groupon email. According to Wikipedia, the Groupon works as an . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Peter J. Leithart explains why human relations need an intrusive third party if they are to be healthy: Our erotic imaginations have been captured by what Yale’s Paul W. Kahn has called the “pornographic.” The pornographic imagines sex without the . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephen Colbert has conducted a brilliant interview of two representatives of Occupy Wall Street. One of them, a committed and articulate young woman, describes herself as a “female-bodied person”: (Skip ahead to the 5:15 mark for the quote.) How did such radical body-self dualism . . . . Continue Reading »
We live in such an odd and hypocritical age. Republican candidate Herman Cain got in trouble with those who matter because one of his internet ads showed a campaign worker smoking. Horrors! Children might see the ad and pick up a cigarette! Doesn’t Cain know smoking causes . . . . Continue Reading »
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