thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb I’m told I have to choose one. At the moment I’m inclined toward Thomas, after Thomas the Apostle and Thomas Aquinas. It seems to me the two span the possibilities of faith seeking understanding. Both had faith, but they differed in their ability to say what it was about. In the end they weren’t so … More ...
Rigoberta Menchu wasn’t the first: the leading first-person account of the “Middle Passage” endured by slaves brought to the New World turns out to be about as authentic as Roots or Martin Luther King’s scholarship. The ex-slave author of the narrative was in fact born in South Carolina. Quite naturally, a lot of people are … More ...
So here’s the meaning of the welfare state: MPs call for full ban on spanking because if social service agencies have to supervise everything it’s easier for them if no one’s allowed to do anything. Once you leave the interior of government offices, though, you find that it’s difficult and troublesome to supervise disorderly people … More ...
A sign of where we are: a video presented at the Lincoln Memorial suggests that Lincoln would have supported such modern-day causes as homosexual and abortion rights. That’s the meaning of America now, folks, and those who instruct us in patriotism and citizenship aren’t about to drop the point.
What are “human rights?” Libya must be the expert, since they’ve just been elected to head the UN rights watchdog committee. One pointer for the rest of us, who aren’t experts, is that they mean an end to the freedom of religious institutions to run their own affairs. For example, across the Atlantic they … More ...
The new religion is that claims of victimization trump everything. Here’s more evidence: Judge Declines To Sentence 3 Catholic Gay Activists. Three members of an activist group protesting at the annual Conference of Catholic Bishops were denied communion at one of the masses there. The next day they went to the conference site, made … More ...
A correspondent translated the short introductory essay to my Anti-Feminism Page and tried to get it published in a large Finnish newspaper. Not surprisingly, they rejected it. Their objections were that it didn’t explain what feminism is and it set forth a conspiracy theory. I was impressed that they hit on two of the three … More ...
A Christian activist who became HIV positive after his wife was infected by a blood transfusion is withdrawing from the presidential AIDS advisory panel under pressure because it came out that he had called AIDS the “gay plague” and homosexuality a “death style” that could be cured by Christianity. As Ari Fleischer said, “The views … More ...
What planet is the Pope on? What kind of people and what sort of movement does he think he’s been dealing with all these years? And what did he think the result of his enthusiasm for immigration would be? Pope wants EU to call itself Christian.
Some people find there are things that take precedence over even observing the MLK holiday. Take for example the Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend that just finished, which annually brings thousands of homosexual leather fetishists to the streets and hotels of the nation’s capital. Not all was perfect. Major hotel chains offered the usual concessionary rates, but … More ...