It’s OK to Love Your Hometown Justin Green, Daily Beast What Abraham Kuyper Did Eric Miller, Christianity Today Johann Jungnitz and the Necessity of Logic for Theology Eric Parker, Epistole The Orthodox Vision of Human Sexuality Fr. Thomas Hopko, Ancient Faith Radio Abortion After Tiller . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter’s post about about Obamacare and its effect on the national economy put me in mind of this recent Michael Ramirez cartoon. To do the post justice, I should find a complementary liberal political cartoon showing how perfectly marvelous America will be once the Affordable Care Act . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval complains, quite rightly, that a modest slowing in the rate of increase of spending on Social Security could only produce a small bargain with the Republicans. It’s not a justification for significantly higher taxes. But “progressive” Democrats are outraged that there could . . . . Continue Reading »
At 5pm in the PATRICK LECTURE HALL, speaking on Tocqueville, Education, and Stuff. . . . . Continue Reading »
On one hand, you might be surprised that the horrible news about Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic hasn’t gotten more attention. We are talking about a serial killer and his crew cutting the spinal cords of infants. That seems like a much more obvious news hook than the opaque and . . . . Continue Reading »
Alex Massie hails Margaret Thatcher as ” an accidental libertarian heroine .” In Massie’s telling, Thatcher was an economic liberal and a social conservative (in fact she was one of the few Conservative MPs to vote for decriminalizing homosexuality and also voted in favor of . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on Pope Francis’ view of poverty : Here, the Holy Father took the opportunity to explain, once again, his choice of papal name, while using that exercise to make two important points. Stressing the Church’s care for, and work with, the poor throughout the world, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The horrors continue to emerge from the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. One baby, who was likely full term , screamed after being delivered during an attempted abortion. Some women delivered their children into toilets; snipping the necks of these infants was, according to one . . . . Continue Reading »
This man takes the rite of exorcism seriously : A Romanian lawyer is suing his local Orthodox bishop and four priests claiming they failed to properly exorcise flatulent demons that were forcing him out of his home. Madalin Ciculescu, 34, accused the five of fraud after they turned up several . . . . Continue Reading »
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