Conservative satirist P. J. O’Rourke has written a devastating take-down of Democrats, though Republicans do not emerge unscathed. You have got to read it. Sample: Democrats are in favor of abortion and against the death penalty. How could anyone possibly arrive at that pair of
As I said, we are retiring and have moved to be close to grandchildren. The thing is, virtually everyone I know in my generation who has retired or who is planning to retire is doing the same thing. My parents didn’t move to be closer
China’s attempt to combine capitalist growth with Communist controls–“Market Leninism” [get it? for Marxist-Leninism?]– has led that country to an economic crisis, which is pulling down the world’s stock markets and threatens the world’s economies. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell over a thousand points over
So the Ashley Madison site, designed to hook up people who want to commit adultery, was hacked, leading to the release of data about some of the website’s 30 million customers (including already disgraced “family values” activist Josh Duggar). This has created some indignation about
Reading a lot, for pleasure, is associated with all kinds of physical and psychological benefits. Details after the jump. (more…)
Pope Francis is coming to the United States next month. Back in January he said that he would like to come in by crossing the Mexican border. That would be, he said, a “beautiful sign” of solidarity with illegal immigrants. I would think such a
The court removed an injunction that it had placed on the release of more Planned Parenthood sting videos, ruling that the Center for Medical Progress has a First Amendment right to show them. The company that had been buying the fetal organs, StemExpress, asked the
Union University is leaving the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, an organization of evangelical schools, because some of them have decided to embrace gay marriage. Other schools are considering doing the same. This has raised the question of what evangelicals and their institutions must
Critics of Donald Trump’s business practices have focused on his bankruptcies. But what is far worse, especially from a conservative point of view, is his history of using eminent domain laws in his real estate developments. That is, he gets government officials to use laws
The Netherlands and Belgium legalized euthanasia a number of years ago. Originally, the idea was to let terminally ill patients put themselves out of their misery. But once the basic taboo against physicians killing their patients was surmounted, euthanasia in those countries has expanded to
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