Barack Obama’s Idea of Compromise
The Obama Administration wants to affirm its commitment to the secular progressive religion of Dionysius and D. H. Lawrence by mandating provision of contraception and abortion even at the cost of...
View ArticleA Contract Recently Came Due
Michael Pacher, Der Heilige Wolfgang und der Teufel [St. Wolfgang and the Devil], c. 1473, Alte Pinakothek, Munich Paul Rahe explains that the American Roman Catholic hierarchy ought not to be...
View ArticleThe Libertine Police State
George Weigel, at National Review, predicts that the culture wars conflict over the left’s determination to breach the wall of separation between church and state is actually going to replace the...
View ArticleNot a Coincidence
Bill Jacobson points out that, in the light of recent events, one of the most peculiar questions asked during the GOP debates suddenly begins to make sense. Remember when George Stephanopoulos, at the...
View ArticleQuos Deus Vult Perdere Prius Dementat
J.R. Dunn tries putting Barack Obama’s initiation of war against the Catholic Church into the proper large-scale perspective. It seems that Obama, in a classic act of hubris, has created the means of...
View ArticleLeft Attacking Limbaugh, Not a Fluke
Sandra Fluke testifying to Congress that society needs to pay for her contraceptives The organized left has mounted a petition drive to persuade Rush Limbaugh’s radio program’s sponsors to drop...
View ArticleThe Phoney Georgetown Contraception Controversy
Cathy Ruse, Georgetown Law ’89, identifies what Sandra Fluke’s congressional testimony and the Georgetown contraception national brouhaha are really all about. Last week Sandra Fluke, a student at...
View ArticleWhen “Leave Us Alone” Became “Bake Us a Cake”
Matt K. Lewis explains that the current (losing for conservatives) attempt to defend individual business’s right to decline to bake Gay wedding cakes or photograph Gay weddings is the next to last...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Is Going to Have a Second Chance
Amity Schlaes thinks the Suprene Court’s decision in the upcoming Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby case could come out as a replay of Schecter Poultry Corp. v. United States, the 1935 case which killed the New...
View ArticleForcible Conversion in America
Kevin D. Williamson notes that our ruling class is determined to eliminate private freedom of thought and opinion and make everyone in America conform in every kind of expression to the belief system...
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