Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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"
That, unfortunately, is where our government is at: In his State of the Union address to the American people earlier this year, Barack Obama declared that he was "confident" of achieving "our objective of defeating the core of al-Qaeda". Although he acknowledged the need to pursue the "remnants" of the terrorist group and its affiliates, …
The Witherspoon Institute is hopeful: The international press was shocked on November 17, 2012, when hundreds of thousands of French citizens took to the streets to fight against a parliamentary bill redefining marriage to include same-sex relationships and legalizing same-sex adoption. Less than a decade ago, France symbolized all that American conservatives despised and all …
Every now and then an article on a supposedly "obscure" subject leaps at you. One of those was "Children Who Disappeared in Britain" by Deborah Cohen of Northwestern University. It chronicles the history of the Normansfield Training Institution near London, from its opening to its ignominious end in 1997. It's significant because it follows the …
Continue reading "When a Little Darwinian Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing"
That's Scott Rasmussen's idea, and he asks a lot of nosey questions: If people trusted the government, there would be no reason to be concerned about background checks, but only one-in-five voters believe the government currently has the consent of the governed. Half the nation views the federal government as a threat to individual liberties …
Continue reading "The Core Issue Isn't Gun Control, But Government Distrust"
Was to state the obvious: Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively — that elite universities are about connecting more than learning, that the social world matters far more than the classroom to undergraduates, and that rather than an …
Continue reading "The Bad Taste of Princeton Alumna Susan Patton"
...even the Federal government boots the likes of Michael Pfleger off the program: Michael Pfleger, the controversial Catholic priest who made racial remarks about Hillary Clinton and defended Louis Farrakhan, has been removed as a keynote speaker at a diversity day event sponsored by a federal government agency. A spokesperson for the Broadcasting Board of …
Continue reading "They Used to Know Christians By Their Love. But Now…"
I've taken something of a "Lenten Break" since Ash Wednesday. I find it more and more frustrating to opine on social and political matters to either a)liberals, who like my old cat only hear the sound of their own voice, or b)conservatives, who can't get themselves to think outside the box at a time when …
Continue reading "Some Thoughts on Same Sex Civil Marriage–from 2004"
Well, we may not be quite up to 106, but... A federal mandate to remove old, abandoned oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico is blowing up a lot more than just the rigs. Undercover video obtained by Local 15 shows thousands of pounds of dead fish, mostly red snapper, floating to the …
With a vengeance: The striking similarities between what happened to black Americans at an earlier stage in our history and what is happening now to white working-class Americans may shed new light on old debates about cultural versus structural explanations of poverty. What’s clear is that economic opportunity, while not the only factor affecting marriage, …
Continue reading "The Class Struggle Finally Comes to America"
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