Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I've run a good number of "I told you so" pieces on this blog. This time, however, it's more like "It used to be this way, but..." and the subject is national security. Barack Obama has, at least, cut the left's Gordian Knot on the issue. Let me go back to 2006 with this pre-election …
Continue reading "Barack Obama: Finding His Inner Lenin, Finding His Inner Dzerzhinskii"
I think we've finally pulled one liberal's chain hard enough so he screams: Here it is. The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That's treason, and it's worthy of the firing squad. The B.S. needs a serious gut check. We are not a tin pot banana …
Continue reading "An Insane Rant Gets to the Bottom of Gun Control"
New concept? Hardly, New York City allowed it in the late 1940's: Many objected to the rich subsidies offered Metropolitan Life, then the largest private corporation in the nation, as well as the firm’s refusal to rent to minorities. Others criticized the complex’s design and layout. Metropolitan Life wouldn’t allow schools, churches, libraries, or other …
Continue reading "Keeping the Riff-Raff Out by Keeping Churches Out"
That's an understatement, as China's Shuanghui acquires Smithfield Foods: Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd., China’s biggest pork producer, agreed to acquire Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD) for about $4.72 billion to boost supplies for the nation that’s the biggest consumer of the meat. Closely held Shuanghui, parent of Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development Co. (000895), will pay …
At the end of this post I am reposting a June 2005 piece entitled "Finishing the Job:A Watergate Reflection". My central thesis at the time--a contrarian one then and now re Watergate--was that Nixon's scandals were payback for his attacks on the left during the anti-communist 1950's, and that the left, with the golden opportunity …
Continue reading "Is the Left Finishing the Job? The Moment of Truth Has Come"
George Conger defends the relevance of 1960's paedophilia advocate Daniel Cohn-Bendit in a religion blog: What makes this a Get Religion story is the context of the European press environment. I am not defending or excusing the Catholic Church. I am however pointing out inconsistencies and double standards in media coverage. The attack, of course, …
Continue reading "Going Around and Coming Around on Paedophilia"
One of the strangest responses I ever got to an "ordinary" question took place in Target one night, where my wife and I ran into the daughter of a friend who is an official in our church. She was with her new husband; like us she had taken a long time to marry. So we …
Continue reading "IRS Investigations Politically Motivated? Better Than I Expected!"
Some people think otherwise: State and local governments, the authorities best positioned to understand their own needs and capacities, should have a greater say in directing the flow of immigration. To that end, Washington could let states sponsor regional visas. Like H-1B employment visas, regional visas would last three years and could be extended to …
Continue reading "Internal Passports: The Bad Idea of Regional Visas"
Looks that way: The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis...”. As I noted last year in my piece Go Where the Future Is: That last point …
Continue reading "Christians in the Military: They Really Don't Want Us Anymore"
Standpoint's Mary Eberstadt hits the nail on the head: Specifically, because the churches need vibrant families — including families that reproduce themselves, as secular people tend not to do — they must also understand that strengthening the natural family is the first order of business in bringing people back to God. As has been amply documented by the British …
Continue reading "The Best Way for the Church to Restore the Family–and Itself–is to Be One"
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