My essay “Sacred Music, Sacred Time” in the November issue of First Things stirred up a hornets’ nest at the MusicaSacra Forum. I joined the discussion and the hornets reverted to a discourse that, at the conclusion, was almost amiable. The issue of contention was my passing . . . . Continue Reading »
When I lived in New Orleans, I knew a retired advertising executive, Phil Preddy, who travelled the world volunteering to paint murals in church baptisteries. For those of you who aren’t low-church Baptists, it is common in churches that practice believer’s baptism to decorate the . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a significant constitutional question hanging over the entire Obamacare project: Is it constitutional to require citizens to buy health insurance? This is no minor question, but Obamacare pushers have generally refused to engage.The Administration has been asked about the matter for . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike Joe Black, the Angel of Death in a dreadful 1998 Brad Pitt vehicle, Prof. Bill Black is a real rather than a figurative Grim Reaper, at least where white-collar criminals are concerned. The former bank regulator, now a University of Missouri Professor, was the main narrator of this . . . . Continue Reading »
Does anyone—anybody? somebody?—have back issues of This World ? You remember This World : It was the journal from which Richard John Neuhaus was fired, in the infamous Rockford Raid —which led him to found First Things in 1990. We seem to be missing two copies, here in our office . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro lifers have long asserted that the ultrasound could make a profound change in the way people view abortion. Strong support for that view came in a story today of a Texas Planned Parenthood executive changing sides after watching an abortion via ultrasound. More details over at Secondhand . . . . Continue Reading »
Pushers of Obamacare have a mantra: “Affordable health care.” But the current plans would tax medical devises such as pace makers, which will increase the cost of care! From a column at NRO byDeroy Murdock:Obamacare promises to make medicine cheaper by making it costlier. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Argument:1. New Jersey exists.2. New Jersey is governed by corrupt politicians.3. The people of New Jersey have the power to remove those politicians through voting.4. The people of New Jersey persist in reelecting the corrupt politicians.Therefore: the people of New Jersey are either-a. . . . . Continue Reading »
The swine flu shot was reportedly given to some Brooklyn school children without parental consent. From the story:School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn’t sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital. “I . . . . Continue Reading »
Escalating violence against Egyptian Coptic Christians coincides with a hardening of lines inside Egypt’s banned Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas is officially the Gaza branch of the MB).From a poster at this blog’s Forum:Egypt (AINA) — . . . . Continue Reading »
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