thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb To those who have experienced other denominations, it seems unlikely that democratization of the Roman Catholic Church would make it more satisfactory to ordinary parishioners. Case in point from the ever-so-sensitive-and-aware Episcopal Church, New York Diocese: Two Who Queried Pastor’s Past Are Forced Off Parish Board. The guy had done jail time on child … More ...
There’s an air of unreality to the Voice of America assertion that slower processing of refugee claims is causing problems in North Dakota because the state is “struggling to maintain its population” and “refugees are a vital part of [its] economic development.” Even if it’s true that the arrival of mainly unskilled third-world immigrants improves … More ...
All tolerance, all the time: Ontario judges rule not recognizing gay marriage violates Charter, British National Party councillor denounced for refusing to back “no room for racism” motion, and N.Y. passes women’s health bill requiring Catholic institutions to provide contraceptives to employees. Meanwhile, the NAACP says half of Congress fails civil rights … More ...
Our sympathy to the French on the sad anniversary of a revolting massacre.
An online publication asked me to write a column on “what is a conservative,” so I put together a draft. It’s a conservative news site in South Carolina, rather well edited, and they’ve just been through an election in which there was a lot of discussion what a “true conservative” is.
Any comments?
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Diversity and tolerance just keep rolling, at least in the sense that everything has to be the same everywhere: Peru Celebrates First Gay Pride Event and Malta’s Green Party Puts Gay Rights On The Agenda. There seems to be nothing local about current trends, which to my mind should put to rest (in the … More ...
More tolerance! Eugene Volokh, libertarian-leaning immigrant Russian-Jewish law professor, has dug up a recent California Fair Employment & Housing Commission case in which the Commision fined a woman $500 for inflicting “emotional distress” on a would-be roommate by telling him that “I don’t really like black guys. I try to be fair and all, but … More ...
The German Christian Democrats get with the program: their 28-year-old pregnant unmarried mom shadow spokeswoman for family affairs is appealing for the votes of homosexuals by promising various gay rights reforms that it seems the Social Democrats and Greens have failed to deliver.
We escaped the heat yesterday by a visit to the Metropolitan Museum and were particularly struck by an exhibition of Thomas Eakins’ work and by some Gauguin canvases. Both represented possible responses to the basic problem of the late 19th century, the death of God. Eakins’ response was a sort of heroic materialism, the artist … More ...
We’ve puzzled before over the claim that EU expansion is the answer to the problem of illegal immigration. Statements of UN officials such as Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, suggest the reason:
… More ...“Europe’s asylum and migration problems cannot be addressed in Europe alone … It is in the regions of origin