2008-07-31T09:22:10-05:00

Some 1.3 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the summer of 2007. If the trend continues, according to a new study, the nation’s illegal population will drop by half in the next five years. Moreover, reports the Center for Immigration Studies, young Hispanic immigrants began heading south before the nation’s economy did – a clue that what’s driving the new outmigration is a stepped-up border and workplace enforcement, not... Read more

2008-07-31T04:43:55-05:00

No matter how one views the issue of woman’s ordination, if one believes women can be ordained to the priesthood (I don’t, but I do think they can be raised to the diaconate), it doesn’t mean the priesthood is a commodity one can take for oneself. Sadly, that is how it seems many women who “become ordained” feel about it. They are missing out on a good which they want, and their desire is indication of their right to possess it. Korah and Dathan thought the same. I can understand why... Read more

2008-07-30T17:08:55-05:00

Various items from named contributors (as opposed to users, a list of about 20 people) from RedState: It may not be November yet, but our boy Barry isn’t wasting any time acting as if here were already our next President and he’s out there doing the Lord’s work of healing America. An interesting category for posts: Like Jesus But Cooler Sorry – a la “The Exorcist” – that’s all that ran through my head as I listened to the Obamessiah... Read more

2008-07-30T16:52:47-05:00

Here is a poem called “Vietnam, U.S.A.” that I stumbled across in an issue of the Holy Cross Quarterly devoted entirely to the Berrigan Brothers. Can we not hear ourselves each whispering the final line of the poem any time prophets confront us with the reality of U.S.-sponsored violence? VIETNAM, U.S.A. The land is screaming Dying or worse than dead Earth, bodies, minds, souls in twisted agony War-torn like the land and desolate While the politicians politic and Marchers march... Read more

2008-07-30T16:23:08-05:00

From the WW4 Report: For a candidate who talks the talk on human rights, Barack Obama has little to say about the infamous School of the Americas (SOA). Originally established in the Panama Canal Zone in 1946, the school later moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1984. Since its inception, the institution has instructed more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers in military and law-enforcement tactics. The Pentagon itself has acknowledged that in the past the School of the Americas utilized... Read more

2008-07-30T15:46:35-05:00

I knew John McCain would not argue on the issues. I knew he would follow the tried-and-tested Republican strategy of lying, deceit, and calumny. The other said they would not be swiftboated again, and here we are, again, in a situation whereby the Republican shamelessly lies about his opponent on military matters. And the media yet again plays along, and will probably develop a collective sense of regret some time next year, long after the damage is done. You probably know what I... Read more

2008-07-30T11:41:48-05:00

What is Conservatism? Part I Anglo-American conservatism, founded by Burke, Johnson, Coleridge, and Newman, is an anti-utopian, anti-ideological sentiment favoring cautious reform. Eliot’s observation that there is no such thing as a gained cause because there is no such thing as a lost cause illuminates other conservative insights: political problems are, at root, moral problems; specific policies tend to matter less than the quantity and quality of the population; and life is overwhelmed by the choices of trade-offs. The Enlightenment... Read more

2008-07-30T08:27:09-05:00

Girls and boys have roughly the same average scores on state math tests, but boys more often excelled or failed, researchers reported. The fresh research adds to the debate about gender difference in aptitude for mathematics, including efforts to explain the relative scarcity of women among professors of science, math and engineering. In the 1970s and 1980s, studies regularly found that high- school boys tended to outperform girls. But a number of recent studies have found little difference. The latest... Read more

2008-07-30T05:00:01-05:00

All of my memories of my parochial school years are informed with affection for the nuns who labored so untiringly to till their charges with learning, and at the same time instill in them something of their own discipline and set then on the paths of Christian thought and the timeless Catholic teachings with which they were imbued. They were, in a sense, substitute mothers, and it is quite possible that we were, some of us, for some of them,... Read more

2008-07-29T12:11:54-05:00

Science fiction television series usually demonstrate a particular religious sentimentality.* Star Trek is famous for its atheistic humanism, although in its later years, after Gene Roddenberry died, the show began to take on a more pluralistic, new-age approach, sometimes questioning Roddenberry’s hopeful atheism (this is especially true for the darkest, and second best, Star Trek series, Deep Space Nine). Stargate SG-1 and its spin-offs should be seen as having a Buddhist sensibility. The Buddhism contained in it is only a... Read more

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