Release of more of President Nixon’s taped conversations show his reaction to the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion. From Tapes Reveal Nixon’s View of Abortion – NYTimes.com: On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v.
Liberal evangelical Jim Wallis, editor of “Sojourners” is saying that the satirical comedian Jon Stewart of the “Daily Show” is a prophet. Wallis thinks the Old Testament prophets were all about condemning social injustice, so since that’s what Stewart does, he is one too. Stewart
More details on why the Chrysler dealers who found their franchises taken away from them believe they were ill-used by the company that is now part of the portfolio of the federal government. From Dealers Say They Were Led Astray in Chrysler’s Final Days –
Here is a good quote from C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity that came up at a Washington Monthly blog in the context of a discussion of vicious ad hominem blog comments: “Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that
I’m glad to see Joe Carter, one of the pioneers of the Christian blogosphere with his Evangelical Outposts, blogging at the First Things blog. In a recent post, he notes that pro-choicers are now articulating some of their moral qualms about abortion, citing some comments
Jonah Goldberg on why big business doesn’t want capitalism: The coup de grâce of capitalism’s murder is at the hands of its most successful child: big business. Everywhere we look we see the great and once-great beneficiaries of free markets running to the state for
Joe Carter reports that the president has disbanded the President’s Council on Bioethics: Earlier this week, members of the President’s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House that their services were no longer needed. President Obama’s decision was made and implemented in his
It had occurred to me that if the government runs a cheaper insurance program than private companies, that most people will get the government plan. And that if the government will insure people who don’t have insurance, that private companies will stop providing that benefit
Happy belated Father’s Day to all fathers and people who have had a father, which includes everybody. To mark yesterday, University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox writes about the myths that journalists regularly trot out for the occasion. I’ll just list the myths, and
For Father’s Day, I got taken out to a Washington Nationals’ game. The Nationals are one of the league leaders in run scored and batting average. Their first three batters are hitting over .300, and the cleanup hitter is one of the leading home run
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