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2010-04-19T05:45:43-04:00

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If you must speak improperly, do it correctly

Last updated on: April 19, 2010 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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I’m fascinated by the various dialects of English and have studied them a little in graduate school. I’ve defended the regional use of “you all” or “y’all” as serving a valuable grammatical purpose. Most languages have a plural form of the second person pronoun. Actually “you” IS the plural form, which explains why it always takes a plural verb: “you ARE,” like “they are”; “you eat,” like “they eat,” but “he eats.” What happened is that we lost the second... Read more

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2010-04-19T05:00:24-04:00

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The government’s pens

Last updated on: April 19, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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I love pens. Since pens are the primal tool of my vocation, I treasure a good pen, from a cheap-but-reliable Bic to the classical-and-hefty Cross. So I appreciated this feature on those government-issue black pens, which are found in post offices, bureaucratic agencies, and the military. Would that the rest of the government were so inexpensive and worked so well! Blind workers assemble the pens in factories in Wisconsin and North Carolina under the brand name Skilcraft as part of... Read more

2010-04-16T06:00:27-04:00

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When conservatives eat their own

Last updated on: April 16, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is one of the heroes of the legislature, in my opinion, the scourge of earmarks and the Scrooge of fiscal responsibility. More than that, he is a strong pro-lifer. And yet now he’s in trouble with his fellow conservatives: Coburn has said he favors the death penalty for “abortionists.” He opposes “any and all efforts to mandate gun control on law-abiding citizens.” During the debate over health-care reform, Coburn said that “what the American people... Read more

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2010-04-16T05:30:08-04:00

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Goodness, gracious, great ball of fire!

Last updated on: April 16, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Did any of you see this thing? Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said. The fireball was visible for about 15 minutes beginning about 10 p.m., said the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wisconsin, just west of Milwaukee. “The fireball was seen over the northern sky, moving from west to east,” said the NWS in the Quad Cities area, which includes parts of... Read more

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2010-04-16T05:00:29-04:00

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The first thing Jesus did after His resurrection

Last updated on: April 16, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Touchstone editor Patrick Reardon on a Scriptural detail that I had never thought about before: “That instant of the Resurrection of Jesus was the most decisive moment in the history of the world. It was the event of deepest importance for every human being who ever lived. It was the supreme kairos. The Law and the Prophets were fulfilled in that moment, and the existence of the human race took on an utterly new meaning. “What, however, was the first... Read more

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2010-04-15T06:00:11-04:00

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The vocation of a teacher

Last updated on: April 15, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Congratulations to columnist Kathleen Parker–whom I actually met at a Patrick Henry College journalism event– for winning the Pulitzer Prize. She credits a teacher for starting her on that road: I materialized in James Gasque’s class in March of the school year for reasons that will have to wait for another day. Suffice to say, I knew no one and had come from a small high school in central Florida where, for some reason, no one had bothered to teach... Read more

2010-04-15T05:45:59-04:00

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Ex-atheist Antony Flew has died

Last updated on: April 15, 2010 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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I remember having to deal with Anthony Flew’s arguments against the existence of God in philosophy class in college. News a few years ago that he had changed his views, to the point of believing that God does exist surprised me and a lot of people. He was persuaded by the evidence for intelligent design. God, though, appeared to be for him an abstract principle, not a living Lord. He died on April 8. Flew always described himself as a... Read more

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Anthony Flew

2010-04-15T05:17:42-04:00

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Pro-life Nebraska

Last updated on: April 15, 2010 at 5:17 am By Gene Veith

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The Nebraska legislature has banned abortion after 20 weeks, raising some new legal possibilities for restrictions: Two landmark measures putting new restrictions on abortion became law in Nebraska on Tuesday, including one that critics say breaks with court precedent by changing the legal rationale for a ban on later-term abortions. Republican Gov. Dave Heineman signed both bills, one barring abortions at and after 20 weeks of pregnancy and the other requiring women to be screened before having abortions for mental... Read more

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2010-04-14T06:00:12-04:00

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Vocation & Opus Dei

Last updated on: April 14, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Opus Dei is the Roman Catholic order that has become the bogey-man for paranoid secularists, leftist conspiracy theorists, and Da-Vinci-Code believers. And yet, for all of its alleged conservatism, it seems to be something unknown in medieval Catholicism; namely, an order for lay people. From an article by Carla Hall: Julia Boles, 46, lives in Arcadia, Calif., with her lawyer husband and their nine children, ages 5 to 20. She also manages to attend Mass daily, set aside time for... Read more

2010-04-14T05:39:29-04:00

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Beauty & physics, liberal arts & liturgy

Last updated on: April 14, 2010 at 5:39 am By Gene Veith

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Catholic artist and educator David Clayton makes connections between science, aesthetics, classical education, and then, for good measure, liturgy: In excellent his book, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, describing the consistency between the Faith and the discoveries of science, Stephen M Barr describes the scientific investigation of a grouping of sub-atomic particles which he refers to as a ‘multiplet’ of ‘hadronic particles’. He describes how when different properties, called ‘flavours’ of ‘SU(3) symmetry’, of nine of these particles were plotted... Read more

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