Forgetting Past Mistakes is to Repeat Them
Despite being married, 23-year-old Alyssa Branton was stalked for months by a much older man who recently shot her dead outside her office building after …
Bill Maher says: “Everyone deserves equal rights. That’s why they’re called “equal” and “rights”, which, as far as it goes, is certainly the goal of …
David Brooks summarizes Michael Kazin thusly and captures the true American virtue in print almost by accident: The idea is that free labor is the …
Thomas Sowell thinks the difference between conservatives and liberals has to do with their views about the perfectability of man. Sowell argues that when it …
I spent most of America’s Independence Day in Vicksburg, Mississippi at the Vicksburg National Military Park and the experience caused me to reflect on the lessons of the war and the policies and disagreements that led up to it.
In response to the murder of abortionist Dr. George Tiller, the Houston Chronicle’s editors asked a pertinent question today – “When does anti-abortion rhetoric cross …
Megan McArdle has wrestled with this question and came up with a wonderfully clear answer:
If people really acted as if the choice to default were morally neutral, we’d either lose most of our credit system, or the legal rules would have to be much more punitive.
The culture war is over? Oh, no it’s not. There’s much more to come. Some important battles have been lost; however, the will and the need to carry on is still strong in America’s Christians.
The Anonymous Liberal has an interesting post up entitled Being a “Public Christian” in which he slams Rod Dreher for his post in which he quotes a lawyer friend as saying “as soon as homosexuality receives constitutionally protected status equivalent to race, then ‘it will be very hard to be a public Christian.'” Well, what of it? Individuals and society as a whole have always judged behavior, rewarding the good and punishing the bad. And they always will.
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