I salute Steven L. Jones, a student at Houston Baptist University, for recalling another of those useful Latin phrases. This one has application from George Orwell’s “memory hole” in 1984 to the NCAA sanctions against Penn State: Question: What do Joe Paterno and the Roman
The Obamacare mandate that requires pro-life institutions and business owners to provide insurance for their employees that gives free contraceptives and abortion drugs goes into effect this Wednesday, August 1. Perhaps you didn’t realize this was so imminent. On Friday, a court is scheduled to
An interesting observation from Miss Manners (a.k.a. Judith Martin) in response to a question from a young adult who is living with her parents and wanting to know how best to respond to rude questions (“You’re how old and still living with your parents?”): The
Opponents of gay marriage are being demonized. Not just disagreed with but condemned, attacked, and boycotted. That’s what Chick-fil-A is learning after the president of the chicken sandwich chain told an interview that he supports traditional families. Not just gays but liberals and right-thinking forces
Part of Victor Davis Hanson’s thoughts about the Batman killings: When Alien, Predator, or Terminator slice up or rip apart dozens, life just goes on. Bodies fly all over the screen and we are onto the next scene. Wondering about who actually was the 11th
Elton John gives credit to George W. Bush and to conservatives for their efforts in slowing the AIDS epidemic in Africa: “We’ve seen George W. Bush and conservative American politicians pledge tens of billions to save the lives of Africans with HIV. Think of all
Francis Beckwith discusses the indignation in some circles about catechists in the Roman Catholic Church being required to, you know, agree with the doctrines that they are supposed to be teaching. In doing so, he employs a useful new word: egopapism. I define this as
It isn’t just [some] Southern Baptists–or [some] Missouri Synod Lutherans–who are looking for a new name. So are mainline liberal Protestants. From Amy Frykholm: In a recent interview with the Century, historian David Hollinger talks about his preference for the phrase “ecumenical Protestants” to describe
The NCAA did not kill off completely Penn State’s football program, as was widely expected, but the sanctions for the child sexual abuse scandal and its coverup were pretty harsh: NCAA President Mark Emmert made the announcement Monday morning that the program would be hit
New data shows that the poverty rate has climbed to the highest levels since the 1960s: The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid
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