You’ve probably heard by now about the practice in the National Football League of paying defensive players bonuses for hits that took out or injured opposing players. Nick Lannon at the very fine website Mockingbird examines the “casuistry”–that is, the moral rationalization–that some players are
Public school teachers and academics in the universities are among the Democratic party’s most loyal footsoldiers, advocating government intervention in a whole host of endeavors. But they don’t like it much when the government intervenes with them. And yet here is a case where government
Finally Harold Camping accepts the plain words of Matthew 24:36 (“of that day and hour knoweth no man”): After numerous failed doomsday predictions, Family Radio founder Harold Camping announced this month that he has no plans to predict ever again the day of God’s Judgment.
In Super Tuesday results, Romney won 6 states (Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, Idaho, Alaska, and the big prize of Ohio); Santorum won 3 (Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Tennessee), and Gingrich won 1 (his home state of Georgia). In terms of delegates, with some states awarding them
How to restrict religion given the Bill of Right’s protection of the “free exercise” of religion? Easy, the secularists in power are finding: Define religion as only what goes on behind the walls of churches. That’s what the administration has done in its abortion pill/contraceptive
Political scientist James Q. Wilson has died. Among his many contributions was an article on “Broken Windows”–observing that if a broken window in a building doesn’t get fixed, soon all the windows will be broken, an example of how social order must be established in
Today is Super Tuesday, when 10 states hold their presidential primaries and caucuses all on the same day, delivering over 400 delegates (nearly 18% of them all). The states and their number of delegates are as follows: Georgia (76), Idaho (32), Massachusetts (41), North Dakota
Radio talker Rush Limbaugh has his schtick, but when he targeted a college student who had been agitating for free contraception–calling her a “slut” and a prostitute and telling her to post her sex videos on the internet–he surely crossed a line. Nine sponsors have
The saga of Issues, Etc., after much drama, is moving to a happy resolution. The confessional Lutheran radio show was booted from the LCMS-owned radio station KFUO for its uncompromising theological stands, sparking an uproar that, arguably, contributed to the election of new, more conservative
The state where I now live, Virginia, has its presidential primary on Tuesday, joining nine other states in a delegate extravaganza that constitutes Super Tuesday. As I’ve complained earlier, the only candidates to get their act together so as to come up with enough names
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