Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Democrats are attacking Paul Ryan for being a bad Catholic, because he believes individuals, not the government, are responsible for caring for the needy in our society. He’s never indicated that he wants to destroy the current overblown, bankrupt safety net we have now, but Ryan makes it plain that
Continue readingWith Paul Ryan shooting across the political sky with a blazing light, the Left is getting worried. The latest attack is to trot out Catholics who claim that, because Paul Ryan objects to wealth redistribution, he’s anti-Catholic. After all, say these Catho-Lefto pundits, what could be more generous than allowing
Continue readingI think this is a good ad, one that I hope reaches out to people who, although not religious themselves, understand that religious freedom and overall freedom are the same thing. Stifling one is the same as stifling the other:
Continue readingMy (perhaps simplistic) sense of post-Pagan monotheism, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, is that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. He is bigger than mere humans can comprehend and He works in ways too mysterious for human comprehension. To the extent things are incomprehensible — whether evil, or deviations from the
Continue readingA lot of people have been crowing that the “God particle” proves that there is no God, because it explains the “something from nothing” aspect of the Big Bang. These people forget one thing: Where did the so-called God particle originate? Dennis Prager is more erudite than I am, so
Continue readingBest of the Web posts a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times in which Obama defines sin, not along traditional Christian or Muslim lines, but along self-referential lines: Falsani: Do you believe in sin? Obama: Yes. Falsani: What is sin? Obama: Being out of alignment with my
Continue readingHowever, this rationalization for infanticide, just published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, makes me wonder if Molock isn’t stirring anew in the ebb-tide of the Judeo-Christian West.
Continue readingAs others have commented, the Catholic Church is making the loudest noises about the new Obama Care mandate regarding birth control, abortifacients, and sterilization, but the policy is really a strike against everyone who is pro-Life in America. If you’re a pro-Life employer, you have to pay for your employees’
Continue readingIt’s a family stuff day, so blogging has been light, and will continue to be so. Fortunately, I’ve got friends who send me interesting things which I am so happy to pass on to you. In no particular order: Wolf Howling has written a fascinating, scholarly dissertation examining the adversarial
Continue readingThere are no more aggressive religious proselytizers than atheists. They sell their religion with ferocity and would willingly burn at the stake anyone who stands in their way. Last I looked, the First Amendment prevented the government from creating a religion from above or interfering with someone’s religion. It didn’t
Continue readingThe last two times I fisked, I was attacking solo acts. This time, I get a triumvirate, as the three most liberal women in the United States Senate, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, and Jeanne Shaheen, have joined together to write an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, justifying ObamaCare’s
Continue readingNo, William Shirer and Hitler have not really addressed current political issues, because (of course) both are dead. And no, I’m most certainly not comparing Obama or anyone in his administration to Hitler. But yes, they both did in the past offer advice about direct government attacks on the Catholic
Continue readingWe are now at the point of open warfare between the Left and the traditional Judeo-Christian faiths in America. We all know that there’s long been a covert war, but it’s finally out in the open now. As I’ve pointed out on my blog, this week alone, the open war
Continue readingJonathan Last has as good a summation as any I’ve seen of the now open warfare between Barack Obama and his erstwhile ally, the fairly liberal American Catholic Church. The article ends with an effort to understand why Obama would pick this battle, and why he would pick it now.
Continue readingBarbara Boxer has taken to the pages of the Huffington Post to explain why the administration’s mandate that all insurers provide birth control, including drugs that induce abortion, advances rather than restricts, religious freedom. If you like Orwell’s Newspeak, Boxer’s writing is a thing of beauty and will certainly be
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