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More Nukes! Fresno needs a nuclear

Posted on January 17, 2010
More Nukes! Fresno needs a nuclear power plant, and there's a group of businessmen who are trying to get it one. Good luck! Given our track record, I'm sure that we are more likely to get more thermal imagers for the purpose of informing people where they need more insulation.

A National Discussion It's ironic

Posted on January 16, 2010
A National Discussion It's ironic that my former friend was interested in having a "national discussion" about how religion oppresses women, but maybe what we need is a national discussion about freedom of conscience and whether the State has the right to limit freedom of conscience depending on who is in power...

An ecumenical moment This article

Posted on January 15, 2010
An ecumenical moment This article by a Baptist news source is pretty encouraging in that it identifies a motivation for the gay marriage as being anti-catholic bigotry and anti-baptist bigotry AND AT THE SAME TIME doesn't excuse the anti-catholic bigotry on the grounds that Catholics are idol-worshipping apostates...

Water is Wet It seems that male-male

Posted on January 15, 2010
Water is Wet It seems that male-male couples have a different view of the nature of their relationship vis a vis "monogamy" and "fidelity" than male-female couples. According to the expert put on the stand by the Pro-Gay Marriage side: "UCLA social psychology professor Dr...

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Breathtaking Ingratitude The Pius

Posted on January 15, 2010
Breathtaking Ingratitude The Pius Wars grind on. In this article, the Rabbi of Rome tells the reporter: ?I think that it can be morally dangerous and, religiously speaking, dangerous to say that the will of God is to be silent and not to say a word in front of the suffering of the people,? Di Segni said, speaking in English...

Political correctness run amok Canada's

Posted on January 14, 2010
Political correctness run amok Canada's "iconic" history magazine will be changing its name because of internet filters. It will henceforth be knows as "Canada's History" and will retire the name it has used for the last 70 years - the Beaver. *Snicker*

Bible Scholarship This Richard

Posted on January 14, 2010
Bible Scholarship This Richard Bauckham lecture on why the canonization of the four gospels preceeded the Gnostic pseudo-Gospels is really good. My take-away - which is gobsmacking obvious after it's been pointed out by someone else - is that that the Gnostic gospels assume the historical background knowledge of the orthodox gospels and then carefully write their versions so as to exploit gaps

Global Warming Nostalgia I'm

Posted on January 14, 2010
Global Warming Nostalgia I'm becoming nostalgic over the good old days when we were concerned about global warming...now that leading climate scientists are predicting a several decade long global cooling trend.

This is what "hope" means? The

Posted on January 13, 2010
This is what "hope" means? The Dems are creating a "poverty trap" according to this Cato post.

Venerable Luce, pray for us This

Posted on January 13, 2010
Venerable Luce, pray for us This is a remarkable story about a girl, born in 1971, diagnosed with cancer when she was 17, who serenely accepted her suffering on the grounds that "Jesus takes away all my black spots with bleach, and bleach burns. So when I get to Heaven I'll be white as snow," and passed away at the too early age of 20, in 1991...

Mathematics... she has always been

Posted on January 13, 2010
Mathematics... she has always been there for us. One of the many great lines from "Better off Ted" last night was: "Phil: If mathematics was a lady, I'd marry her." "Carl: Stand in line, big guy." This guy must feel the same way in light of his analysis re: "Why I don?t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK...

Swimming the Tiber Frank Beckwith

Posted on January 13, 2010
Swimming the Tiber Frank Beckwith reports that Joshua Betancourt - the co-author of "Is Rome the True Church?" - has converted to Catholicism. Betancourt's fellow author is Norm Geisler, who has been the principle author of a series of Protestant apologetic works that analyze non-Protestant systems, such as atheism, Catholicism and Islam...

Further from Facebook Karen's

Posted on January 12, 2010
Further from Facebook Karen's response: "I don't actually have all day to debate this, but I do think I should point out that I have not purported to equate the Catholic Church with fundamentalist Islam's imposition of the burqa on women, not to mention a host of other rules that limit the rights of women to realize their full potential...

Screw how people dress - this really

Posted on January 12, 2010
Screw how people dress - this really deserves an application of "cultural imperialism." This Steve Sailer post on the rise of human sacrifice in Uganda and the fact that the Ugandans have an "anti-sacrifice task force" makes me reflect (a) not all religions are equal and (b) how close we are to "the primitive...

Puzzling There is the following

Posted on January 12, 2010
Puzzling There is the following post at a Truly Reformed site: Why I am Not a Roman Catholic 01/11/2010 - Alan Kurschner The following simple juxtaposition is a sufficient reason. Roman Catholic apologist Tim Staples: "The bottom line here is this: Jesus Christ did not suffer and die so that we don't have to...

Facebook Discussion Nicholas Kristoff's

Posted on January 11, 2010
Facebook Discussion Nicholas Kristoff's column on "Religion and Women" generated this discussion. I dismissed Kristoff's column, which generated this response: Give me a break. I don't think anyone is equating American religious practices with honor killings or genital mutilation...

Funny!

Posted on January 10, 2010
Funny!

Re Harry Reid's "well-spoken and

Posted on January 10, 2010
Re Harry Reid's "well-spoken and light colored Negro" comment Reid is a classic Democrat racist who thinks that no "person of color" can make it without the loving intervention of a State controlled by the Democrat Party. It was Reid - an intellectual lightweight of Joe Biden proportions based on his many idiotic public comments - who singled out the second African-American Justice of the

Bad Voters! You are all "Grounded." Jennifer

Posted on January 08, 2010
Bad Voters! You are all "Grounded." Jennifer Roback Morse on the Prop 8 federal trial: In her syndicated column, my friend and colleague Maggie Gallagher makes these points about the upcoming Prop 8 trial. 1. The constitutionality of Proposition 8 should be a matter of law, not a matter of facts...

Book Review - "Heresy" by Alister

Posted on January 07, 2010
Book Review - "Heresy" by Alister McGrath [On Amazon - more reviews here.] "Heresy" by Alister McGrath was very good until McGrath got to the subject of heresy in the Middle Ages. It seems that we are permitted to talk about "heresy" only up until around 500 AD...

Lawyers in Trouble The Obama admininistration

Posted on January 07, 2010
Lawyers in Trouble The Obama admininistration lawyers who dismissed the Black Panther voter intimidation case have been individually sanctioned for discovery violations. It seems that they have played games in failing to provide answer to discovery in a case that they filed...

Christopher Hitchens is not Great Mark

Posted on January 05, 2010
Christopher Hitchens is not Great Mark Shea offers this perceptive essay on why Christians are well-advised to keep their distance from Christopher Hitchens, notwithstanding Hitchens' occasional usefulness on matters pertaining to Islamofascism.  Finding inspiration in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Shea observes about the recurrent vampire character "Spike": In the Buffy-verse, poor

Too true, alas Jennifer Roback

Posted on January 04, 2010
Too true, alas Jennifer Roback Morse links to a National Catholic Register article that offers this "Urrah!!!" summarization of the Catholic experience by a recent Marine convent: Father Michael Duesterhaus has been deployed to combat areas three times, including Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006...

As Michael Crichton pointed out,

Posted on January 04, 2010
As Michael Crichton pointed out, the Earth is complicated "New studies" seem to show that the airborn concentrationo of CO2 has not risen in the last 150 years: New studies have found that most of the CO2 emitted by man does not stay in the atmosphere as previously believed...

Ahem...Ladies, if you are interested

Posted on January 02, 2010
Ahem...Ladies, if you are interested in improving your romantic situation during 2010 ... .... and I'm not saying that anyone needs to, or even wants to - Marie Claire has a few tips. "Flirting with Nerds" ...it seems like shooting fish in a barrel, frankly...

Marian Devotions An Anti-Catholic

Posted on January 01, 2010
Marian Devotions An Anti-Catholic blogger - linked in this Mark Shea post - pointed to this article by Arturio Vasquez as an example of "inappropriate Mariolatry."  Writing about his experience with the tradition of devotion to "the Virgen Moreno" (the Dark Virgin"), Vasquez observes: It is perhaps the lack of a Catholic imagination that can sometimes lead American Catholics to shake their

Things we need to know Seriously. John

Posted on December 31, 2009
Things we need to know Seriously. John Deundian defends his position - taken at a Communio  group one evening - that Catholics may not call an angel by any name other than the three names given in the Bible, lest they be calling on the Other Side by mistake...

The American Century is Over According

Posted on December 26, 2009
The American Century is Over According to this Washington Times article: Mr. Obama did make history at Copenhagen, but not in the way he expected. It says a great deal about American power and prestige when international leaders go to so much trouble to avoid meeting with the president of the United States...

Alcohol Yes, Marijuana No Mary

Posted on December 23, 2009
Alcohol Yes, Marijuana No Mary Grabar offers a cogent argument for why marijuana should not be legalized. But I would argue that tradition should be a reason for its continued legal status and for denying legal status to marijuana. The sanction for alcohol use goes back to the Bible...

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 2009 Michael

Posted on December 23, 2009
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 2009 Michael Barone provides a history lesson on why the Health Care Bill may be the Democrat's undoing.

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