Re: Ich Bin Ein Muslimer

by Mary Rose Somarriba

For more on Obama’s speech in Cairo, you simply can’t miss David Goldman’s thoughts at Spengler and Elizabeth Scalia’s reactions at The Anchoress . . . . . Continue Reading »

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When It Comes to Sunken Treasure …

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Finders aren’t necessarily keepers . . . . . Continue Reading »

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One Instance in which Scalia was a Wise Italian-American Justice

by Helen Andrews

. . . from his dissent in Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois , in which the majority of the Court held that hiring or firing low-level government employees based on party affiliation violated the First Amendment, dealing a blow to the “If there’s a job that can’t be done by a . . . . Continue Reading »

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Ich Bin Ein Muslimer

by Stephen H. Webb

Our empathy President is now our theologian-in-chief. He has gone to Cairo like President Kennedy went to Berlin, to make a political point about human solidarity. Kennedy, of course, was expressing solidarity with West Germany shortly after the Soviet backed communist regime in East Germany . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2009 0

There’s More

by Mary Rose Somarriba

If you enjoyed Elizabeth Scalia’s On the Square article today, don’t miss her outtakes on the story at The Anchoress . . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2009 0

Watch Out for Christian Terrorists!

by David P. Goldman

Damian Thompson at the Daily Telegraph has this gem, apropos of the Obamanable speech:The BBC Trust has dismissed a complaint about an episode of Bonekickers, a BBC One drama series about a team of archaeologists, that involved a fundamentalist Christian beheading a Muslim (as so often . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2009 0

Birthing and Rearing

by Nathaniel Peters

In today’s Wall Street Journal Jonathan Last reviews Judith Walzer Leavitt’s Make Room for Daddy , a history of how men went from being unwelcome to expected in the delivery room. But Last notes that as men became more involved in childbirth, they became less involved in what came . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2009 0

Why Couldn’t Obama’s Speechwriters Find a “Peace” Quote from the Koran?

by David P. Goldman

Of many strange moments in President Obama’s Cairo speech, perhaps the strangest is the conclusion:The Holy Quran tells us, Mankind, we have created you male and a female. And we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.The Talmud tells us, The whole of the Torah . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2009 0

Debate?

by Robert Cheeks

If we are to engage in a discussion, debate, or civil argument it is imperative that we share some understanding of the ground of discussion; in this instance some comprehension of the “matrix of reality,” because recent developments clearly illustrate the pernicious effects of the . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2009 0

Is Billy Collins Killing Poetry?

by Joe Carter

Compile a list of topics Americans feel compelled to form an opinion about—global warming, the job performance of Obama, the fate of Jon and Kate—and “contemporary poetry” will rank near the bottom. Most Americans, though, are not ROFTERs . If you’re a ROFTER you’re . . . . Continue Reading »

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