Kyle Smith, film critic for The New York Post , notes that the new Ricky Gervais comedy isn’t what it seems: If you saw Ricky Gervais’s delightful romantic comedy “Ghost Town” last year and were looking forward to his new comedy, “The Invention of Lying,” be warned. . . . . Continue Reading »
On the campaign trail Barack Obama said that one of his heroes was Abraham Lincoln. Now that he is President, #44 seems to have forgotten the lessons of #16. Lincoln took the role of Commander-in-Chief extremely seriously, often directly supervising his generals during the war. Obama, on the other . . . . Continue Reading »
Whenever we have discussed national health care here, I warned that proponents would try to take things too far at too great a cost, and that their desire to cover abortion could kill the bill. That very scenario is playing out. Amendments in the House Committees to explicitly bar abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
From the U.K.’s Telegraph comes an article that is a four-course feast for thought. If scientist Ray Kurzweil is to be believed, we will all be capable of immortality within twenty years . How’s that for health care reform? The idea here is that through nanotechnology, we will swap the . . . . Continue Reading »
In response to Michael Moore’s new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, the Acton Institute has produced a four-minute video rebuttal that makes the case that it was government meddling with the free market—not free markets—that led to the current financial crisis. . . . . Continue Reading »
Kate Harding at Salon.com should get the last word on the Roman Polanski affair—for she says everything that needs to be said . . . . . Continue Reading »
Bought two posters depicting the Holy Trinity yesterday for my First Communion class. This first one, the “Old Testament Trinity Icon,” I know well and love. I especially love the idea of the Trinity’s quiet intervention, as mysterious guests, to set in motion a history which will . . . . Continue Reading »
I monitor blogs and stories that involve human exceptionalism. Recently, I noticed a recent upswing in Darwinists railing against the idea that human beings have unique moral value. In essence, they say, we are just animals: Get used to it.That theme is found in review of a motion picture . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I don’t know Mr. Casey Khan, but this commen t over at the Front Porch struck me as insightful and brilliant! That may not be the way you’ll describe it, but, hey, everyone has an opinion. . . . . Continue Reading »
From William Easterly’s paper, ” Can the West Save Africa? ” [PDF] Most of the emphasis in project-specific efforts has been in addressing problems of illiteracy, disease, low agricultural productivity (possibly linked to land tenure practices, to be discussed more in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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