In which I noodle the fact that there are no unanswerable arguments–largely due to the fact that there are always cocksure newcomers to old arguments. Read more

So I will take my leave for the weekend and be back on Monday. Sorry the blogging has been so meager. I’ve got a book to finish and an article to write for next week. Hopefully, I will come up for air soon! Read more

“Fascinating Arcana below the cut” in it. Read more

I may have to go see this. Sounds good! Read more

Chris Tollefsen writes: Augustine pointed out that the faith, to truly succeed in the world, must succeed by being believed. And how, he asked “can there be any believing one who thinks it is sometimes right to lie, lest he haply lie at the moment when he teaches us to believe?” Why is this thought of Augustine’s applicable to the pro-life cause? Isn’t it enough that our tactics stop abortions from happening? No, it is not. To truly be in... Read more

Wikileaks suspect forced to sleep naked in the brig Back in the old days, before the executive discovered his power to unilaterally order the murder of anyone on planet earth he decided was an enemy of the state, the presumption of law was that suspects were innocent till proven guilty and not subject to psychological degradation at the hands of a capricious state. But in the new improved America of Obama, we just go ahead and start punishing people now,... Read more

Relevant Radio around 4:30pm EST. You can listen here. Read more

Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years Regional war could spark “unprecedented climate change,” experts predict. There’s always a silver lining. Read more

…to the anti-human and barbaric godlessness of post-Christian capitalism, the American Chesterton Society offers this helpful 12-Step Program to help you get clean and sober. Read more

I have just read in the news of this (a little bit whacky) church group that loudly demonstrates against homosexuality at the funerals for killed military people. They just won their case, it was decided they have the right to express themselves (is it 1st Amendment in the US?). I do not like the manner they are doing it, but it seems to me to be good news: now maybe you and others officially have been declared as having the... Read more