I am always leery of undercover video “stings,” but I think this one bears noticing. Live Action is an adamantly anti Planned Parenthood organization headed by Lila Rose, which has exposed PP in the past—such as demonstrating that, contrary to the assertion of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Katherine Dalton at Front Porch Republic writes a mild rejoinder to foodies, explaining why she is not one, despite enjoying the occasional artisanal product or upscale dinner: We are using real plates and cloth napkins (in my house, the monogrammed paper napkins I am given every Christmas are . . . . Continue Reading »
In my morning’s lazy read of my morning paper, The Wall Street Journal *, I note that today’s most popular read of that newspaper is Why We Lie. Since Saturday, 4,100 people have shared this article, which is by Dan Ariely, explaining his book “The (Honest) Truth About . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat greets the Facebook IPO with schadenfreude: Of all the major hubs of Internet-era excitement, Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking site has always struck me as one of the most noxious, dependent for its success on the darker aspects of online life: the zeal for constant . . . . Continue Reading »
Converting to Paganism Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic The Proper Name of the Holy Spirit Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales Witness at Sixty Joseph Wood, The Catholic Thing Porn, Video Games, and the Demise of Guys Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan, CNN Deciphering Obamish Keith Riler, The . . . . Continue Reading »
What has happened to literary journalism that something like this gets published in a national paper? John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14—a poem on Christ’s violent attack on the self’s evil heart that brings about salvation—tells us, Roz Kaveney writes, . . . . Continue Reading »
I believe that humans are distinguished from all other known life by differences that are moral in naure, not merely biological. For example, while our bipedalism has certainly helped us become who we are, it is not what makes us exceptional. After all, penguins are bipedal too.But our moral . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an astonishing intolerance of pro life speech among those who rule in the power structure. I think of Paster Walter Hoye, arrested in Oakland for merely passing out anti abortion material and conversing with women about not terminating their pregnancies. But at least we (still) . . . . Continue Reading »
The perceived entitlement of the West sickens. We now believe our lives are so important that with biological colonialism, some of us are willing to work with criminal gangs to grab the kidneys of the vulnerable destitute. There is a shameful report out of the UN illustrating just how . . . . Continue Reading »
I have heard it said that if you do not have family, close family, serving in the military, then your attitude toward government, and especially U.S. involvement in war and military conflict, will be quite different from those of us in that position. On Memorial Day, theoretically, we come . . . . Continue Reading »
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