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August 2008

August 14, 2008

Pining for Viking sperm donors

So the USA has put restrictions on importing donated sperm from Europe, due to concerns...

August 12, 2008

At least he didn’t love her

What really galled me about John Edwards acknowledging that his affair with a woman while...

August 06, 2008

Locke on tolerance

British writer William Rees-Mogg writes about John Locke's first major publication, "A Letter on Toleration"...

July 2008

July 29, 2008

The 20th century’s butcher’s bill

More from the CIRCE conference, from a talk by think-tank veteran Barbara Elliott: From 1901-1987,...

July 18, 2008

In defense of flip-flops

Today's political discourse excoriates politicians who have ever changed their positions. True, someone who changes...

July 16, 2008

The paranoid style

Robert D. Novak tells us about the republication of a book from 1965 by Richard...

July 01, 2008

Imposing our morality on other cultures

A Ugandan pastor and AIDS worker, the Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, writes in "The Washington...

June 2008

June 26, 2008

Abstinence education is just “too strict”

Nearly half of the states are turning down federal funding for abstinence education, turning away...

June 09, 2008

Seeing my first gay pride parade

Outside of our hotel here in Winnipeg the annual Gay Pride parade marched by yesterday...

June 06, 2008

Stealing whiskey vs. stealing art

Here is a fascinating history of international copyright law, occasioned by recent attempts to bolster...

May 2008

May 30, 2008

Drunken Lutherans?

Wisconsin leads the nation in people who admit to drinking and driving. The rest of...

May 20, 2008

The eclipse of shame

Barbara Walters , icon of TV journalism, has published an autobiography in which she boasts...

May 19, 2008

Dante on Sin & Love

Thanks to Ball Point Blog for alerting me to the fact that my Table Talk...

May 09, 2008

Allowing gay marriage by not allowing it

The high court in the Presbyterian Church (USA) ruled that a pastor who performed a...

May 02, 2008

Credit card usury

Fed to Pursue Aggressive Checks on Credit Cards - washingtonpost.com: The Federal Reserve and two...

May 01, 2008

Dungeon children

The Austrian Josef Fritzl kept his daughter in the basement for 24 years and had...

April 2008

April 04, 2008

On the morality of not voting

The theologian Alasdair MacIntyre wrote a piece during the last presidential election entitled The Only...

April 02, 2008

Greater love hath no man than this. . .

Petty Officer Mike Monsoor, a Navy SEAL, who died in action in Iraq, is receiving...

March 2008

March 13, 2008

New sins

Vatican Updates Its Thou-Shalt-Not List: In the Vatican's latest update on how God's law is...

March 11, 2008

Secular liturgies

Who says people today aren't oriented to liturgies? Consider this article on New York Governor...

March 11, 2008

The fall of a governor

The governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, a democrat who made a name for himself...

February 2008

February 29, 2008

Buckley’s advice to Christian activists

Christianity Today online has dusted off an interview with the recently-deceased William F. Buckley from...

February 21, 2008

The butcher’s bill of atheism

Dr. Aikman on an urban legend pushed by the "new atheists," and one of their...

February 18, 2008

Bishops forbid actors to do sex scenes

Roman Catholic bishops in Italy are telling actors they had better not do sex scenes....

February 14, 2008

The next sexual freedom issue

I predict it will be polyamory. That means committed sexual and quasi-familial relationships between three...

February 08, 2008

Religion and the Death Penalty

"The Weekly Standard" has a remarkable article by Walter Berns entitled Religion and the Death Penalty,...

December 2007

December 04, 2007

Morality Helping Science

Charles Krauthammer, who was a medical doctor before he became a pundit, says that the...

October 2007

October 30, 2007

On Tolerance

Here's a great quotation about tolerance from Michael Gerson: For many, tolerance does not result...