Apart from the mass murder, that is. Or, to put it another way, if a government slaughters millions of its own citizens, does it really matter why they do so? The question is occasioned by a recent Jonah Goldberg column on the controversy over whether the Ukrainian famines of the 1930s (engineered by Stalin) ought to be considered genocide: Last week, Russia’s lower house of parliament passed a resolution insisting that Josef Stalin’s man-made 1932-33 famine — called the Holodomor... Read more
Is it possible for a community under a couple thousand people to abuse 416 children? Contemplate this for a second. A community less than a quarter of the size of where I grew up, and they are presently being investigated for abusing a number of children they bore equal to 75% of the number of students that attended my high school. There are many fundamental questions surrounding this issue. Before we get too far into the process, the Fundamentalist Latter... Read more
It appears the stereotype of the “free-ride” may need to be rethought. Some undocumented migrants may even be paying more taxes than they should. Click here for the story. Read more
History, as we are often told, is written by the victors. By the end of the fifth century, Christianity had already taken its dominance over the Roman Empire. In the histories and artwork produced by the Christians of this era, we find a celebration of this achievement. Christianity had conquered the pagan empire, and they believed that it was time to glorify the way in which God had worked out this triumph. Peter Brown provides for us a powerful example... Read more
Perhaps the root of this problem can be traced to the desire to rid the world of the word “like” from like every other sentence. This problem is to treat analogy as truth. Examples of this are: “Bill Clinton is the first black president” and “George Bush might just be our first Catholic president.” In each case there in an ideal for which the author is appealing, blackness and catholicity respectively. While the analogy itself may be perfect nonsense, at... Read more
…and of course, there is so much wrong with it. I’ll comment on a few points, and then leave you with Bush’s final statement on being “pro-life” in order to generate discussion. Mr. President, this is the first head of state, Pope Benedict the XVI, you will ever greet on a tarmac. I was stunned to learn this. Why are you going and greeting him at an airstrip? Usually the heads of states come here. THE PRESIDENT: Because he is... Read more
He will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants. Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work. Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants. And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord... Read more
Interesting article from CNN regarding the $112 Billion a year it costs US taxpayers to support single parents. Now, how to solve the problem is a different question. Read more
For the best self-attestation of the Good is its defenselessness in the face of the power of evil. The best attestation of Truth is silence in the face of much-talkative falsehood. The supreme manifestation of Beauty consists in the unadornment by vain adornment. The power of God triumphs by means of itself, not by means of the power of this world. For the world, there is no power of God. The world does not see and does not know the... Read more
China leads the pack while the U.S. is in fifth place. Via Amnesty International and CNN: Ninety-one percent of all known executions in 2006 took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and the USA. Read more
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