Elizabeth Scalia
We all know his name, but I prefer not to use it in a public forum, mostly because his name should not be better known than the names of his victims. I will use it, though, in private prayer. Social media is abuzz that the shooter is in court being arraigned. People are looking at [...]
Via How overly-enthralled we are becoming to our ideological tribes? Enough, perhaps, to wonder if our too-passionate engagement with ideas is poisoning our communal well, and robbing us of our humanity. At a moment when we should be united as a people responding to evil in our midst — and a mass murder is not [...]
Back in October of 2009 I asked, Does Obama Know Who We Are? Obama is an American President who is not particularly American in character or disposition. He seems not to really understand Americans, or their way, which is a way peculiar to the rest of the word, at once shallow and heroic, capable of [...]
When my niece was a teenager, I couldn’t tell which (or if any) of the boys in the roving gang she hung out with was a guy she was actually dating. Turned out there was one fellow who was “hers” and we had a long confusing chat about how no one “dates” anymore. People “went [...]
Mickey Kaus has been writing about it: Obama weakens welfare reform (again): Here are some quick initial reactions to the administration’s apparent surprising (and possibly illegal) attempt to grant waivers of the work requirements written, after great effort, into the 1996 welfare reform law. I’m posting Thursday night; the story should break for real tomorrow [...]
:::Welcome Instapundit readers::: Please check out my update, which wonders whether Obama just got waved on. And thanks, Glenn Reynolds! – – – – – I am amusedly watching the reactions of the SCOTUS ruling on Obamacare — where yesterday’s “extremist activist court” is suddenly a model of humility and judicial restraint — and remembering [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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