Can’t Wait for Sex? Just Get Married, Some Say

by Joe Carter

No, that headline didn’t come from The Onion (or Lark News ) but from this Fox News story on how—are you ready for this?—some evangelicals are encouraging young people to marry . Despite the eye-rolling headline and being thirty years late in noticing the “evangelicals are . . . . Continue Reading »

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Don’t Miss

by Mary Rose Somarriba

David Goldman’s latest on the Spengler blog: The Closing of the Christian Womb in the Middle East . . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2009 0

Infants: “More Conscious Than Adults”

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Somebody tell Peter Singer: Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing gurgling creature. Still, there has to be some point in development when consciousness isn’t present, and though it is logically . . . . Continue Reading »

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Town Hall Meetings for Children

by Joseph Bottum

Via Jonah Goldberg, the angry mob playset!So many uses for the homeschooling parent![Rating: 50 out of . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2009 0

For the Liturgical Lutheran in Your Life

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Our Lutheran readers might be interested in an upcoming retreat for clergy from the renewal group the Society of the Holy Trinity: The retreat will be September 29 - October 1, 2009, at University of ?St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein (near Chicago), ?Illinois, USA. Members of the . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2009 0

Pelosi Spins a Yarn

by Wesley J. Smith

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer weigh in on the great health reform debate in USA Today . Beyond the “un American” accusation being widely discussed throughout the blogosphere and on talk radio, thar’s mendacity in them thar hills. Learn more over . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2009 0

Obamacare: Pelosi Spins a Yarn

by Wesley J. Smith

I admit that I am not a fan of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the hypocrisy and mendacity of her USA Today column about health care reform (co-authored with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer) is beyond her usual low standards. Time to parse. From their column:Americans have been waiting for nearly a . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2009 0

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

No wonder we’re dying out : Nobody likes going to the dentist, but redheads may have good reason. A growing body of research shows that people with red hair need larger doses of anesthesia and often are resistant to local pain blockers like Novocaine. As a result, redheads tend to be . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2009 0

More Yuval on Healthcare

by Ivan Kenneally

Yuval Levin continues to be the leading conservative commentator on all things related to healthcare. Here he explains that the inevitability of a systemic overhaul (meaning nationalization) of our healthcare industry has been frustrated by the actual concerns of voting citizens and the heavy . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2009 0

The Rule of Law and the Wealth of Nations

by Joe Carter

In the latest edition of First Things , Reuven Brenner has a must-read article on our current fiscal predicament : Fundamentals seem to cluster in foursomes. Classical alchemy had four elements, and classical medicine had four humors. Though it’s neither alchemy nor medicine, economics, . . . . Continue Reading »

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