On the other hand, there is media kerfuffle on the Right about Chris Hayes of MSNBC saying he has a problem with using the word, “heroes” for the dead on Memorial Day because that word ennobles war and worst of all, ennobles the current war effort. What could be worse? I . . . . Continue Reading »
Take a look at this video , of a sixteen-year old who videoed herself criticizing the Obama and general liberal stance on gay marriage. Innocuous, civil, standard-issue conservative commentary on the subject, really only distinguished by the commentator’s youth and her quoting Billy . . . . Continue Reading »
The Hunger Games is a dystopia about a country named Panem, in which one city, the Capitol, rules twelve other districts. Due to the districts’ rebellion, the Capitol has instituted the Hunger Games: each district submits two children to a contest where they fight to the death. . . . . Continue Reading »
SMiLE was to be the follow-up to Pet Sounds , but its recording was apparently so arduous for The Beach Boys, the session musicians, and the increasingly unstable Brian Wilson, that he called it off in the Spring of ‘67. Driblets of the studio material were released over the years, Wilson . . . . Continue Reading »
I am very confident that the Obama anti-Catholic and religious liberties “Free Birth Control Rule,” as it applies against religious institutions with dogmatic objections, is doomed by the First Amendment. I had always assumed the case would be decided by the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Boesche is not among the top ten Tocqueville scholars in my opinion, but he probably deserves to be in the top fifteen or at least twenty; he has at least three serious books on Tocqueville I can recall off-hand, the most well known being The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville , and . . . . Continue Reading »
I have begun to argue that controlling health care costs will require that we make a greater distinction between medical “treatments” and “services.” Treatments involve diagnosing and treating actual disease (roughly stated), while services involve using medical . . . . Continue Reading »
The quest for male birth control, other than of the latex kind, has moved a step closer with the discovery of a gene involved in sperm production. From The Independent story:A contraceptive pill for men which works by preventing sperm development could result from the discovery of a new gene, . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t entirely agree with Walter Russell Mead that Romney needs to focus on becoming more likeable by doing a great job of explaining his faith. It isn’t that I’m against Romney explaining how he was shaped by his personal faith and his institutional church. I . . . . Continue Reading »
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