John Garvey, the president of Catholic University, has written an op-ed piece in which he explains why his institution is joining scores of other Catholic groups in filing a lawsuit against the contraceptive & abortifacient mandate in Obamacare. In the course of his essay (in
The Washington Post has an ongoing feature about “myths.” Last Sunday the topic was Five myths about marriage. As usual, the piece combined the interesting with the dubious. What stood out for me the most was this factoid: Two-thirds of divorces are initiated by women.
In raising the question why both campaigns are ignoring Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts, Ezra Klein (a liberal) goes on to show how that record might not matter too much. In doing so, he gives a succinct account of what both Romney and Congressional
Two big holidays this weekend, one in the church year and the other national. I hope you had a meaningful Pentecost on Sunday and that you will have a meaningful and enjoyable Memorial Day today. So let’s play a holiday game. Connect the dots. What
A Gallup poll surveyed what Americans find morally acceptable and unacceptable. From The Atlantic: What do we learn from this? I’ll start: Pornography comes out as worse than abortion, sex outside of marriage, and the death penalty. Nearly two out of three Americans consider pornography
As the Mitt Romney campaign hails his business experience and as the Obama campaign demonizes it neither side wants to talk about what is surely Romney’s most pertinent qualification for the presidency; namely, being governor of Massachusetts. Ezra Klein explains why both parties are avoiding
The Norwegian parliament has voted to do away with the state church. The measure, which was passed unanimously and which also seems to have the approval of church officials, will still provide some church funding, though extending that to other groups, including “humanists.” Though all
So another Safe Scruffy White Guy with Guitar (SSWGWG) won American Idol yet again, beating out far better singers because so many pre-adolescent girls with cell-phones thought he was cute. That’s what critics are saying. I acknowledge the underlying problem, but I would argue that
Muslims are hailing the discovery of a version of the apocryphal Gospel of Barnabus that has Jesus allegedly predicting the coming of Mohammed. This will cause, so they say, the collapse of Christianity. Iran’s Basij Press is claiming that a version of the Gospel of
George Will sums up how Elizabeth Warren and her Ivy League universities played the diversity game: Blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren, the Senate candidate in Massachusetts and Harvard professor who cites “family lore” that she is 1/32nd Cherokee, was inducted into Oklahoma’s Hall of Fame last
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