Archive for March, 2009
We’re Shocked, Shocked! To Find David Frum Engaging in Character Assassination
Over at NRO, the online home of David Frum until January of this year, Frum’s former colleagues are expressing shock and dismay at his attacks on Rush Limbaugh, most prominently in a cover story for Newsweek.
From the Archives: Stemming the Tide
Welcome to the brave new world of embryonic-stem-cell research, funded by your tax dollars.
What Is History? Part 25
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. —Philip K. Dick
The Gay Science
The California Supreme Court is now hearing arguments on the state’s Proposition 8, which forbids same-sex marriages. Rather than rail, one more time, at the turpitude of California or the perversity of homosexuals and liberals, I would like to look very briefly at some of the more prominent arguments being used.
The Way We Are
We all develop silly pointless habits from time to time. Some chew gum. Some collect string. Some vote and write their Congressman.
Change for the Worse
President Obama has presented the most irresponsible budget in U.S. history. His fiscal year 2010 budget projects federal spending of $3.5 trillion and a federal deficit of $1.75 trillion. In other words, 50 percent of the government’s budget consists of red ink.
Religio Philologi: Lenten Tests
Lent, for Christians who put so much as half their heart into penance, is a serious trial. Vowing to give up sweets or liquor or movies or agreeing to abide by the older rules on fasting and abstinence, we expose ourselves to constant temptations to backslide. It would be rude, would it not, to refuse to drink a Martini with a less observant friend who has something to celebrate? I have always acted on that principle.
The President of Special Interests
The Bush-Obama bailout-stimulus plans are not going to work. Both are schemes hatched by a clique of financial insiders.
Marriage in America—March 2009
PERSPECTIVE Self-Evident Lies by Thomas Fleming VIEWS Mainline Marital Mélange by William Murchison When the culture preaches to the church. Immigration and Marriage in America by R. Cort Kirkwood Beyond definitions. Moonstruck Morality Versus the Cosmos by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. Romancing the self.
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