In Brazil a man suffered a stroke, whereupon he started giving away his money, giving food to street children, and being so kind to everyone that he has been diagnosed as having “pathological generosity.” Interestingly, his condition made him lose his job as a manager
Retired Major General Robert H. Scales, former commandant of the U. S. Army War College, gives the word on the streets from those who would actually have to do the fighting: By no means do I profess to speak on behalf of all of our
Tokyo won the 2020 Olympics, beating out Istanbul and Madrid. I’d say that was a good choice. Also, the International Olympics committee voted to re-instate wrestling as an Olympics sport, beating out baseball, softball, and squash. (more…)
As Congress and the nation as a whole decide on whether to attack Syria, let us take up the exercise of applying the guidelines for starting a “Just War,” according to Christian ethicists going back to St. Augustine. The criteria are listed after the jump.
Now that the Boy Scouts of America have accepted homosexuality, veterans of the scouting movement have announced the forming of an alternative organization: Trail Life USA. (more…)
Foreign affairs columnist Anne Applebaum (who is not a conservative) on our current international relations debacle: The central problem of the Obama administration’s Syria policy is not that the president has failed to use military force but that both the president and his top officials
According to a new code of etiquette, it’s not enough to ask someone’s name. You also need to ask, “what’s your PGP?” That is, your “preferred gender pronoun.” The choices may be “he” or “she” or “they” or the newly-coined “ze.” (more…)
Pro-lifers are told not to worry about the morning after pill, as mandated by Obamacare. It doesn’t work by preventing the fertilized egg from being implanted in the womb, though that was how it used to be described. It simply prevents ovulation, just like a
Pretty much what I predicted is unfolding in Congress. The growing consensus among both conservatives and liberals that attacking Syria is a bad idea should be celebrated as an instance of bi-partisanship, of once polarized factions coming together over foreign policy, a sign of national
Oswald Bayer, emeritus professor of theology at the University of Tübingen, is a widely-respected thinker who engages with contemporary thought on a very sophisticated level. As we’ve blogged, he is sometimes associated with the Radical Orthodox movement and he is considered a rather cutting-edged theologian.
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