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On Aquinas.

Posted on September 09, 2009
On Aquinas.

On "Ecclesial Angelism" and other

Posted on September 09, 2009
On "Ecclesial Angelism" and other heresies.[Via Mark Shea.]

More Media MalpracticeHow the media

Posted on September 08, 2009
More Media MalpracticeHow the media ignored the Van Jones scandal...and the Jeremiah Wright scandal...and the Edwards scandal.....and others.We have to feel sorry for those who rely on the mainstream media: they haven't a clue about what's going on in the world.

"Why I am not a Thomist"The Thomist

Posted on September 07, 2009
"Why I am not a Thomist"The Thomist professor of philosophy at Marquette - Mark Johnson - confesses that he is not a Thomist: I told them that I didn?t feel that I could really consider myself a full student of Thomas?s teaching until I had a reasonable mastery of some basic texts and skills...

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Like a Coelacanth breaching the

Posted on September 07, 2009
Like a Coelacanth breaching the wavesHere is the website for the "North American College of Gnostic Bishops." The NACGB member churches includes the "Apostolic Johanite Church," which explains its charism as:Is the Apostolic Johannite Church a Christian Church?We are part of the "catholic" (universal) Tradition as it was understood by the pre-Nicene Christian Churches, and we use Christian form

Raise the minimum wage during a

Posted on September 05, 2009
Raise the minimum wage during a recession and what do you get?The highest teenage unemployment rate since the Great Depression.Big surprise.

Films and PhilosophyFather Barron

Posted on September 04, 2009
Films and PhilosophyFather Barron on District 9:In ?District 9,? we see the master/slave dynamic on display: the characterization of the aliens by a derogatory nickname, their sequestration in a squalid ghetto and the violence?direct and indirect?that is visited upon them...

Another one - Hitler learns that

Posted on August 31, 2009
Another one - Hitler learns that Americans are calling each other Nazis

Johnny can't communicateThe rise

Posted on August 31, 2009
Johnny can't communicateThe rise of digital communications may have left the current generation clueless when it comes to face-to-face communication:It does, of course, but how would they know it? We live in a culture where young people?outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another?are ever less likely to develop the "

Our Wonderful Post-Racial FutureMy

Posted on August 31, 2009
Our Wonderful Post-Racial FutureMy sixth grader is about to go through that part of the study of American History which involves the Civil Rights Movement. She will learn that "whites" - an undifferentiated mass that she will be led to believe includes her ancestors - were all racists to all people of color...

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached

Posted on August 28, 2009
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for commentsCarl Cannon reminds us about a part of the Kennedy legacy:First of all, he and two of the men, a cousin named Joseph Gargan and a friend named Paul Markham say they returned to the bridge to try and rescue Mary Jo...

Hitler learns that the "Avatar"

Posted on August 27, 2009
Hitler learns that the "Avatar" trailer sucks

"Learning Ethics from Les Miserables."Everyday

Posted on August 26, 2009
"Learning Ethics from Les Miserables."Everyday Thomist provides a wonderful reflection on the ethical dimensions on display in the musical Les Miserables. For myself, I have always been captivated by the disparity between Javert - incarnating the rule-oriented deontological ethic - and Jean Valjean - who instantiates, as Everyday Thomist points out, a "virtue ethics" based on love...

A cogent summary of Christopher

Posted on August 25, 2009
A cogent summary of Christopher Hitchens' debate styleFrom a comment by Vox Day in the comments to this post: You clearly don't know Hitchens's style very well, because Hitchens doesn't actually make coherent arguments. His notion of an argument is to bitch about circumcision, or Mother Theresa, or bans on pork, or to tell some random anecdote about two guys he met in Zambia once, and then act as

Slouching to GomorrahU.N. Agency

Posted on August 25, 2009
Slouching to GomorrahU.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation: A June report from the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) suggests children of all countries and cultures are entitled to sexual and reproductive education beginning at age five...

But still competent to run both

Posted on August 24, 2009
But still competent to run both the auto and health industries.Obama administration still hasn't filled half of administration posts.

Culture of DeathFirst published

Posted on August 24, 2009
Culture of DeathFirst published under the Clinton administration, and suspended under Bush,under the Obama administration, the Veterans' Administration has revived a book implicitly advocating that disabled Vets allow themselves to be killed:Your Life, Your Choices" presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political "push poll...

More Business Heading Our WayThe

Posted on August 23, 2009
More Business Heading Our WayThe Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has tossed in with the Episcopal Church and will now permit homosexuals living in a "committed relationship" to serve in leadership positions.No word as yet on whether the ELCA will allow polygamists living in a "committed relationship," or heterosexuals living in a "committed relationship," to serve as pastors...

A Presbyterian Take on hesterton's

Posted on August 22, 2009
A Presbyterian Take on hesterton's The Ethics of ElflandCheck it out here.

The Passion of TarantinoWhen Mel

Posted on August 21, 2009
The Passion of TarantinoWhen Mel Gibson released his "The Passion of the Christ," critics went wild with describing it as "violence porn." Now, Quentin Tarantino releases "Inglorious Basterds," which is described by its creators as "Jewish revenge fantasy" and "kosher porn...

The Scary Obama AdministrationYou've

Posted on August 19, 2009
The Scary Obama AdministrationYou've got to give a lot of credit to Nat Hentoff. Republican administration or Democrat administration, he can be relied upon to put his civil libertarian convictions ahead of his political tribal loyalties. He has also been the rare Leftist voice who has spoken out against treating human beings like fungible units of commerce...

Down the Memory Hole - Cindy Sheehan

Posted on August 19, 2009
Down the Memory Hole - Cindy Sheehan EditionFormerly endowed by the media with unique moral authority, Cindy Sheehan is no longer useful now that the Democrats are in power.Sheehan is now referring to the "anti-war movement" as the "anti-Republican war" movement...

Strangely CaptivatingGirls in bikini

Posted on August 16, 2009
Strangely CaptivatingGirls in bikini read Star Wars.I particularly like the dramatic tension in the scene where Han Solo encounters Greedo.

Liberals - Our intellectual masters,

Posted on August 15, 2009
Liberals - Our intellectual masters, Part III.But wait! There's more!James Taranto also points to this classic example of the way that liberals become "our intellectual masters." The Orwellian Memory Hole whereby things that they said simply disappear from their memory:Two Speakers in One! "I say to the president, Mr...

Liberals - Our intellectual masters,

Posted on August 15, 2009
Liberals - Our intellectual masters, Part IIRemember how uncool and unsophisticated using the word "evil" was when it involved George Bush or Ronald Reagan. Well, guess what? Calling things "evil" is cool again, but only when it involves Americans who dissent from the Democrat agenda...

Liberals - Our intellectual masters,

Posted on August 15, 2009
Liberals - Our intellectual masters, Part IJames Taranto asks about Sarah Palin, "If she's dim and Obama is brilliant, how did he lose the argument to her?"The first we heard about Sarah Palin's "death panels" comment was in a conversation last Friday with an acquaintance who was appalled by it...

Apologies to Everyone - The Old

Posted on August 14, 2009
Apologies to Everyone - The Old Negro Space Program."As much as they feared losing the space race to the Russians, they were even more afraid of losing the race to the Negros."Ironically, NASA did lose when the Negro Space Program landed on the Moon in 1966, which, of course, was a story buried by the media of the time.

Was there a divorced husband anywhere

Posted on August 14, 2009
Was there a divorced husband anywhere in America who didn't have a PTSD flashback when Hillary dressed down that student?Rich Galen observes how Hillary is stinking up the room:Hillary Clinton is a dreadful Secretary of State. In May, Clinton announced that the Iranians were building a huge "mega-embassy" in Nicaragua...

In an alternate universe, Americans

Posted on August 14, 2009
In an alternate universe, Americans are watching a sex tape of President Edwards, who is now serving the 7 month of his first termEdwards' Love Child: Mandatory Gloating Edition" via the Kausfiles. Apparently, Edwards has admitted to being the father of the "love child" that the media elected to ignore, until the National Enquirer dug up the truth...

Press courageously defends First

Posted on August 14, 2009
Press courageously defends First AmendmentOr not. And in a post-modern world, exactly what does "defend" mean anyhow?Mark Shea points to this Orlando Sentinel article on how the local police have cornered the criminal mastermind who has openly admitted the crime of committing politics...

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