O'Sullivan tackles the timeless question of the role of church and state [all emphasis below is mine]:

The Bishops’ Borders
A question of principles and practicalities

JOHN O’SULLIVAN ( Read more... )

I found this gem from C.S. Lewis in a review of his The Screwtape Letters by John J. Miller at National Review Online. The Screwtape Letters are written from the point of view of a demon writing advice to his protege how to corrupt humans. Here's an incredible excerpt where the demon advises the use of moral relativism to cloud judgment and coax a ( Read more... )

Any student of language knows that certain concepts don't translate well. Idioms are notoriously strange when translated but even seemingly common words can have entirely different connotations in different cultures which make them hard to translate. The following is excerpted from an article I read ( Read more... )

I'm really running late today so I'll leave you with a few quick things:

1) With the announcement that he won't seek reelection as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney fueled speculation that he'll run for president in 2008. This article scratches the surface in showing why.

2) Elections in Iraq appears to be very successful thus far. A recent ( Read more... )

Late last night, I received an email from a friend of mine letting me know that Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition would be in town to receive an award from NH Cornerstone for his promotion of traditional marriage. I read Rabbi Lapin's first book, America's Real War and it had a profound effect on me politically and religiously (that same ( Read more... )

Gems from the National Review's "The Week ( Read more... )

Jay Leno just noted that with all the hurricanes and tropical storms, maybe now isn't the best time to take G-d out of the Pledge.

Andy McCarthy's post on NRO regarding the lunatic decision that children can't say the Pledge of Allegience because it somehow violates the First Amendment:

Mark [Levin] has just been talking on the radio about how the kid doesn't have to say the pledge and is even free to leave the room. That is so right, of course, but you know what infuriates ( Read more... )

Even some conservatives, such as David Brooks of the New York Times, have fallen for the nonsense that racism or an animosity toward the poor have anything to do with Hurricane Katrina. "The rich escaped while the poor were abandoned," claimed Brooks. Others note that there are a disproportionate amount of poor, black people who are affected by the ( Read more... )

Three things I'm supposed to write about:

1) biblical prophesies being fulfilled in the modern era
2) the origins of the evangelical "end-of-times" claims
3) the lecture my long-bearded rabbi who teaches Jewish Law gave titled "Why I Hate Religion" (or "Why I Am Not Religious")The first one is too long for today and will require more time. I was ( Read more... )