So I was at a local Christmas party last night. There I met a most admirable young man with six beautiful and happy children and a seventh on the way. He makes his leaving as a boutique metal worker (cupolas and such), and he’s obviously a fine craftsman and an able entrepreneur. Not only . . . . Continue Reading »
I will not let it go. I have a piece on The Church Report about how the Rom Houben “awakening” brought Terri Schiavo powerfully back to minds and hearts. I won’t belabor most of the points again here, since we have talked about it a lot. But I will leave you with . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t let the headline fool you: I am not against evidence based medicine when it is used as a guide for doctors to provide optimal individualized care. But I am against using EBM as a method of establishing categories for health care rationing—whether of “what” or . . . . Continue Reading »
“They think I shouldn’t be expressing my views on this bill until they get a chance to try to sell me the language,” Congressman Stupak said yesterday in an interview . Somehow that verb, sell , seems appropriate when speaking about the monstrosity of the Senate’s version of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ambassador Douglas Kmiec—the Catholic law professor who parlayed his campaign book in support of Obama into an ambassadorship to Malta—has signed a statement of “Christian Leaders” in support of the abortion provisions in the Senate’s health-care bill. Of this, Ed Whelan . . . . Continue Reading »
Without the rule of law, we cease to be America. That is why murdering abortion doctors not only goes against the core of what pro lifers proclaim about themselves, it strikes at the very heart of liberty. And now, a judge has ruled properly that the killer of the odious George Tiller . . . . Continue Reading »
Reader Nicholas Frankovich made an important clarification of my general observation that American liberal intellectuals have not come to terms with their moral mistakes. He points out that Susan Sontag spoke up against the self-complimenting anti-anti-communism of the Left. Excellent observation. . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the tenth part in a twelve part devotional commentary on “O Holy Night.” See the introduction here.Chains shall He break For the slave is our brother;And in His name All oppression shall cease.I’ve heard from a couple of readers of this series that these are their favorite . . . . Continue Reading »
Biblical Archaeology Review has a scholarly examination of why Christmas is celebrated on December 25—and it’s likely not, as commonly believed, timed to coincide with a pagan holiday: The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from . . . . Continue Reading »
For some time now, I’ve been meaning to do a weekly round up of interesting law-related articles that I stumble across in the blawgosphere. So, with that brief introduction, here is my first installment of “Corpus Juris”: Is the Health Care Reform Bill Unconstitutional? . . . . Continue Reading »
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