The Non-Thinking Person’s 2012 Election Decision Tree
(cross-posted at Acts Of The Apostasy) Okay. The elections are just under seven months away. The presidential combatants are *nearly* set – a foregone conclusion, barring a brokered Republican...
View ArticleInteresting Times
My favorite living historian, Victor Davis Hanson, has a new post in which he details bad signs aplenty of scary times ahead: Read the News and Weep That is not conspiracy talk, but simply a...
View ArticleGuns and “All Men Are Created Equal”
Few issues demonstrate better that liberal elites and the rest of us might as well live on different planets than the Second Amendment. Frequently living in gated communities, usually working in...
View ArticleOf Aging Porn Stars and Aging Ideologies
My alma mater, the University of Illinois, brought a 58 year old porn star, Annie Sprinkle, to campus to teach students young enough to be her grandkids about orgasms this week. Go here to read...
View ArticleThe New York Times as State Organ
In the old Soviet Union the two dominant newspapers were Izvestia (News) and Pravda (Truth). People luckless enough to be born in the Soviet Union had a cynical joke about them: “There is no News in...
View ArticleCompeting Religions
Christopher Johnson, the non-Catholic who has taken up the cudgels so frequently for Mother Church that I have named him Defender of the Faith, points to an editorial of The Washington Post that hopes...
View ArticleThe Left and Morality
Dennis Prager has an intriguing post about the interaction among liberals of morality as a laundry list of public political positions combined with wretched personal behavior: I first thought about...
View ArticleReligious Liberty: Necessity or Virtue?
Hello again TAC! It has been nearly a year since I posted here, and it is good to be back. I have a long one for you this time, but I think you will find it interesting and my hope is that it will...
View ArticleMakes Sense
I am normally skeptical of “scientific” studies that purport to find a linkage between what seem to be unrelated phenomena, but this makes sense: When a U.S. state becomes more liberal politically,...
View ArticleLiberalism, Capitalism & Pluralism: The Catholic Wars Continue
On February 6, The American Conservative published a piece by Patrick J. Deneen titled “A Catholic Showdown Worth Watching.” In it, Deneen outlines the positions of two hostile political camps within...
View ArticleConservatives & The Eich Affair
Joseph Shaw over at LMS Chairman has posted a four part-critique of the conservative response to the Eich affair (and related incidents) titled “Why Conservatives Are Wrong.” Whereas Jeffery Tucker...
View ArticleEnd of Summer, Feed Is Working Again, and The French Revolution
It’s the unofficial end of Summer and it’s my annual gratuitous post of myself day. The pic below was taken in mid-July, but I waited to fix the feed to The American Catholic in order celebrate the...
View ArticleDying Nuns, Liberalism, and Time Magazine
Time magazine, yes it is still being published, serves one useful function. It normally gives insight into how doctrinaire liberals view the world. It is often unintentionally hilarious as the...
View ArticleBuckley Was So Right
I’d rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard. William F. Buckley, Jr.
View ArticleTo Hate Liberally
Spengler (David P. Goldman) takes a look at the blind fury that seems to be the distinguishing characteristic of the Forces of Tolerance these days: They really, really hate us. George Orwell...
View ArticleThey Serve Sauron and have Forgotten Their Own Names
John C. Wright, Science Fiction author and convert from atheism to Catholicism, is on fire: Something rotten, very rotten has happened to the Left just in my lifetime. They used to be champions of...
View ArticleSubstitute Religions and Tolerance
David Gelernter,a professor of computer science at Yale, has noted the snarling hatred that seems to dominate the left in this country and believes he understands its source: Where does the...
View ArticleLiberalism as Power Grab
David Griffey at Daffey Thoughts gets to the essence of contemporary liberalism: That aging feminists are invoking the fires of hell and old sexist stereotypes in order to corral the...
View ArticleLife Imitating Art
I am beginning to think that contemporary liberalism is morphing into a cult for people who simply can’t deal with reality: What is Verrit you ask? It’s a new social media site bubble created by...
View ArticleOn Smelling Death
Like many, I often ponder the evil of mass shootings and other killings. Mass murder is mass murder in a sense, but something like an Islamic terrorist attack has a specific religious/political...
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