One of the side effects of the late vocations classes I’m taking (currently on the Old Testament), is that after each session I return with wonderful kernels of ideas from which to expand a (hopefully) interesting essay based on the discussions we have in class. Last week one of the books we . . . . Continue Reading »
The distant rattle of skirmish fire was overheard this afternoon at the Porch. One wonders if we’re in for a full policy review, or just the hurtling of innocuous insult? . . . . Continue Reading »
Senator Harry Reid has stooped to a new low by comparing people who oppose Obamacare to defenders of slavery. From the story:...Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era. “Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the . . . . Continue Reading »
Which is more annoying: Leftists who in the wake of Climategate have suddenly discovered a love for public choice theory or libertarians who in the wake of Climategate have studiously ignored public choice theory? Whatever your answer to that question, I hope it suggests that public choice theory . . . . Continue Reading »
In my last post, I suggested that the global warming hysterics are just crackers. Here’s another example. The UN’s top climate bureaucrat says that we have to dig deeper into our already empty pockets. From the story:Yvo de Boer, the United Nations’ top climate official, said . . . . Continue Reading »
Never let it be said that too much water has passed under the bridge, nor too much missionary under the Hollandaise, for the grand and glorious act of confession to affect reconciliation, both on the vertical and horizontal planes . In the 1830s, the Reverend John Williams was the most famous . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on the Spengler blog, David Goldman unloads on my buddy Ross Douthat. Sad that the dumbest thing I’ve read in the New York Times for years came from the blog of Ross Douthat, the Catholic conservative voice at the Gray Lady . . . Ouch. Read the rest . . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been pondering our sharp political and cultural divides recently, and it has become depressingly clear to me that true “debate” has become nearly impossible on many issues. I first brought this up publicly in my debate with Gregory Stock on genetic engineering of . . . . Continue Reading »
Sad that the dumbest thing I’ve read in the New York Times for years came from the blog of Ross Douthat, the Catholic conservative voice at the Gray Lady:Maybe the encounter with a post-Christian Europe will supply the Islam of recent immigrants with the cultural vigor that’s been . . . . Continue Reading »
Like Mary, we ought to submit to God’s sovereignty and go where he leads. Continue Reading »
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