thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb In a very idle moment (I was looking at an interactive map showing blogs located near my subway stop) I ran into the following horrible quote from Peggy Noonan:
… More ...…[T]he essence of American patriotism is a felt and spoken love for and fidelity to the ideas and ideals our country represents and was invented
A new, improved Quasimodo: The Bellringer of Notre Dame. Will the revised PC title stick?
A tempest in a teapot, I think: WERE STUDENTS GLORIFYING HITLER? Yearbook photo flap erupts in Stratford. The New Haven Register apparently reproduced about a tenth of the original photo. Lucky for the boys they already graduated.
Gleichschaltung rolls on: Catholic institutions to be forced to cover contraceptives in their health plans even though the drugs often work as abortificiants. The reporter’s presentation, which deals with the controversy by emphasizing other features of the bill and other uses for contraceptive drugs, is typical.
The president signs the Michal Judge Act, which has the effect of paying federal death benefits to “partners” of unmarried policemen and firemen, while New York City considers giving effect to homosexual unions registered in Vermont and California. It’s “simply the right thing to do,” says the City Council speaker.
The Judge Act can … More ...
Worth noting: LifeSite Canada has a comprehensive collection of articles on the current clerical homosexuality scandals. Their front page, by the way, has a good listing of current news items relating to their areas of concern, including PC suppression of traditionalists in Canada.
It’s hard at this distance to figure out just who did what and how bad it was, but that’s the point: Albanian terrorists armed by the West to fight in Kosovo are destroying Macedonia. We bombed Serbia for 78 days and nights because we were outraged by a civil war in which more than … More ...
What is the proper place for freedom? Certainly the liberal view that freedom is a self-contained final standard for politics is wrong, since freedom is always freedom to do or be something. As such it must be understood by reference to some further good. Freedom is primarily freedom to acquire or achieve something good. … More ...
Is it ever anything but? Diversity top priority for new University of New Hampshire leader. The current numbers more or less reflect the racial composition of New Hampshire, but that’s just not good enough. After all, ”A world class education requires a diverse educational community” and thus social engineering and thought control. Meanwhile, Seattle … More ...
It’s not just multinational corporations and “human rights”, everybody’s responsible for everything. The Ohio Supreme Court has approved the Cincinnati lawsuit against handgun manufacturers, so gun manufacturers are responsible for street crime. The AMA, among other enterprises that are making social conditions more and more a medical responsibility, is getting into the anti-bullying … More ...