The Roman Catholic Church has changed the liturgical response to the greeting, “The Lord be with you” back to “And with your spirit.” This is a change from the more modern liturgies that had switched to the more colloquial “And also with you.” The more
Here is a great, eloquent, and right-on discussion of academic dishonesty, in which a professor, who blogs as “Tenured Radical,” imagines what she would say to her college-aged child on the subject, if she had one. I offer it as a celebration of Finals Week,
Peggy Noonan has a good column about the promise and perils of Newt Gingrich: I had a friend once who amused herself thinking up bumper stickers for states. The one she made up for California was brilliant. “California: It’s All True.” It is so vast
Vanderbilt’s ruling that campus Christian groups may not require their leaders to be Christians would seem to violate every canon of reason, let alone the freedom of religion. This happened awhile ago, but I noticed something about the story. Consider this account: Is Vanderbilt University
Historian Richard Striner proposes a solution for our economic woes: Using the monetary methods of Lincoln, updated to employ the inflation-fighting tools of the Federal Reserve, we could pay for a faster recovery and a great many worthy projects without higher taxes, without more national
President Obama gave a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, in which he wrapped himself in the mantle of Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt, that is. And, according to liberal columnist E. J. Dionne, laid out the strategy that will bring him re-election. President Obama has decided that he
Some experts are saying that the song and the cartoon “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” promotes bullying! See Does ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer’ Promote Bullying? « CBS Pittsburgh. This is a classic example of confusing the content of a story with its meaning. Yes, the other
An issue is before Congress that has both Republicans and Democrats tied up in ideological knots. Republicans oppose deficit spending. They also are in favor of tax cuts. Democrats are usually fine with government spending, which they are willing to finance with higher taxes. So
The Food & Drug administration had decided to make the abortifacient “morning after” pill available over the counter without a prescription. But now the Health & Human Services Department has over-ruled that decision, keeping the drug by-prescription only: The federal government Wednesday rejected a request
Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which took the lives of 2,300 Americans, destroyed 12 ships and 160 aircraft, and brought the nation into World War II. See Pearl Harbor attacked: A witness remembers, 70 years later – The
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