In Depth
From the OpinionJournal.com, offered without comment: Liberal Fundamentalism Who are the intolerant extremists? Monday, May 16, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT We have been following the extensive theological commentary in the press on the subject of politics and religion in the current presidential campaign. It might not otherwise have occurred to us that so many editorialists…
Over at Spinning Clio, I’ve written a longish piece (“Christianity as a ‘Founding Religion’ Disavowed: What DID the 1796 Treaty with Tripoli Say (and when did it say it)?” that investigates the historical interpretation of a rather obscure treaty that has been used to buttress the arguments of many secularists and others who seek to…
There is an excellent posting on Captain’s Quarters about Janice Rogers Brown, one of the court nominees being filibustered by Senate Democrats, that references this Sacramento Bee editorial written by a liberal who, among other things, said: I know Janice Rogers Brown, and she knows me, but we’re not friends. The associate justice of the…
The two local newspapers published last Thursday a new letter to the editor I wrote about the ongoing NEA teachers’ union contract dispute in East Greenwich. The editorial begins: The issues of retroactive pay and “work-to-rule” are at the heart of the dispute in the East Greenwich NEA teachers union contract dispute. The union expects…
I have always failed to understand why our society pays so much attention to the opinions of Hollywood celebrities, as if they have any ability to offer rich insights into the issues of life. This opinion was reinforced this morning by two separate news articles about Brad Pitt, both coming from the same interview: In…
Stephen Green of Vodkapundit offers a striking counter-argument to Pat Buchanan’s editorial entitled “Was World War II worth it?”: It took 40 years, but today Pat Buchanan hit bottom on the slippery slope from Young Turk conservative columnist to Nazi Apologist troglodyte… Shame on Buchanan. We must never let the evil of World War II…
Welp, what are we all to make of this? Mr. Gingrich and Mrs. Clinton have a lot more in common now that they have left behind the politics of the 1990’s, when she was a symbol of the liberal excesses of the Clinton White House and he was a fiery spokesman for a resurgent conservative…
Travis Rowley has an excellent piece in today’s ProJo explaining that Conservative “hypocrisy” as evidenced by the moral failures of some prominent conservatives does not render the moral ideals themselves invalid. Yet, that is what liberals are essentially implying when they cry “hypocrisy” when a conservative suffers a moral stumble. If a Sunday Preacher challenges…
As I’ve announced on Dust in the Light (I think), I’ll be writing a biweekly column, published Thursdays, for TheFactIs.org, an online opinion magazine jointly sponsored by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute and the Culture of Life Foundation. My first offering is “Communicating with the ‘Faces of Hate’,” about conservative Christians’ designation, in…
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “Pension Fund Politics” in which it made these comments about labor union practices: One of the more dangerous political trends these days is the misuse of public pension assets for partisan ends. So it was encouraging this week to see the Labor Department give a…
