Category: politics

Paul Krugman and the Leftist Academy

Paul Krugman today tackled the question of liberal bias in the academy in his New York Times column. Stanley Kurtz noted over at NRO that Krugman’s acceptance of said bias as fact is, at...

Legally Right, Morally Wrong Discussion

Over at My Dogs are Smarter, Paul Hogue began a discussion about the Terri Schiavo case, asking “How does a Christian react to this?” See here for the first post. He invited me to...

A Protestant Tribute to the Pope

One of the most tragic fallacies of feminism is the cant that Christianity is a source of oppression of women. As my tribute to Pope John Paul, I offer his own words, which provide...

Berger Baloney

Day By Day© by Chris Muir. Okay, I know the cartoon scrolls underneath my template — sorry, I can’t resist leaving it in: consider the first two panels a teaser, and click through to...

The Politics of "Demeaning"

How strangely appropriate that the political denouement of Terri Schiavo’s sad odyssey began drawing to a close this past weekend on Good Friday. As our nation went through the weekend simultaneously debating the value...

Run Cheri, Run!

  With the news this morning that Terri Schiavo is dying and that the appeal to the Supreme Court has failed, we should be reminded that we need good people in our government. My...

Baseball or Life? Hmmm, Hard Call . . .

Here’s David Broder on Meet the Press yesterday on why Congress should not intervene in the Terri Schiavo case (her husband has had her feeding tube removed even though her parents have been fighting...

Meet the People, Mr. Brownstein

On yesterday’s Meet the Press, the roundtable discussed Congressional attempts to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case (just in case: the young Florida woman, who is brain-damaged, whose husband has succeeded in getting the...