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June 2017

June 08, 2017

Who’s been to a presidential museum?

I have a draft post waiting for my attention, about the coming Obama museum, and...

June 08, 2017

Comey hearing open thread

I'm just not paying any attention to this. Yeah, I know, I should be, but...

June 07, 2017

Oh, fun – Medicaid for all!

That's what's on tap in Nevada, though there are few details available at the moment....

June 06, 2017

More virtual candles

You're pretty much used to it by now: terrorists attack, whether with guns or bombs...

June 03, 2017

We’re getting multi-culturalism all wrong

What follows is, ahem, a load of covfefe, but it's something I was thinking about...

June 02, 2017

Climate, Culture, Principles, And “In the Company of Syria”

We want an Agreement, a Treaty, to have a clear path, a practical impact, and...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

Wanted: fundraising advice

Here's a request that's got nothing to do with politics, or Catholicism, or any...

May 25, 2017

How Does a Pope Greet a President?

A part of our contemporary American culture is that one smiles for photographs or upon...

May 24, 2017

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad budget “cuts”

Yes, you've heard by now: Trumps' budget cuts government spending for the needy and will...

May 23, 2017

“[His] death cannot go by with no meaning at all.”

The front-page story in today's paper: "Naperville teen's senseless tragedy: 'They scared him to death'."...

May 22, 2017

Wishful thinking isn’t enough: the demise of tracking at Illinois high schools

Let me tell you about the course offerings at my son's high school: For math,...

May 18, 2017

Chicago celebrates a terrorist

Yes, indeed, while on the one hand Chicago is fretting about violence on its streets,...

May 15, 2017

So, President Pence, eh?

The latest report is that Trump revealed to the Russian foreign minister highly classified information...

May 12, 2017

Girl Boy Scouts, update

So you know that whole argument about whether the Catholic church must preserve its ancient...

May 11, 2017

From the library: The New Koreans, The Story of a Nation, by Michael Breen

How much do you know about Korea? Had you asked me that, before reading this...

May 10, 2017

What’s the purpose of an aquarium?

Is it to educate and inform, that is, is there a public service mission, in...

May 07, 2017

So about “couples for whom NFP doesn’t work” . . .

How much money, if devoted to research with a different objective, would it take to...

May 05, 2017

What’s the deal with Trumpcare and pre-existing conditions?

It's surprisingly difficult to get a good picture of what's going on in the new...

May 05, 2017

You won’t believe what I have to say in this post

I am outraged, outraged, I tell you, at the fact that Donald Trump seemed to...

May 03, 2017

Please sign! A petition on NFP effectiveness

The Catholic Church's teachings on contraception is not something I'm inclined to get on a...

May 02, 2017

Was the Civil War “worth it”?

So let's talk about the Civil War. The simple explanation of the war is that...

May 02, 2017

The perils of the diversity crusade

From the College Fix last week: According to a university [of Wisconsin, Madison] document obtained this...

May 01, 2017

Hold the mocking on the Civil War . . . Trump isn’t as wrong as you think he is

In the news today, President Trump said that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Let’s pay to pee!

Yes, really. According to Steven Chapman's column in today's Tribune, Alderman David Moore has sponsored...

April 29, 2017

Girl Boy Scouts, again

NPR has decided that the Sydney Ireland story needs revisiting/re-promoting, so they've written another article...

April 28, 2017

The Handmaid’s cautionary tale . . .

is, apparently, that we are at risk of becoming a slightly weird version of fundamentalist...

April 26, 2017

Did Rauner flip-flop on Medicaid abortions?

On the Democrats' party platform this summer: the elimination of the Hyde Amendment and...

April 25, 2017

The power of LGBT

The other day, in the e-mailed news, my employer boasted of being named a "Best...

April 25, 2017

From the Library: The Campus Rape Frenzy, by KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr.

Imagine that you could, by ritually sacrificing a few people selected at random, ensure the...

April 20, 2017

Is the conventional wisdom on bilingualism wrong?

So says an article in The American Conservative, as linked to by the National Review,...