I have heard liberal Catholic priests and Protestant ministers say that there is something “unchristian” about the death penalty. I have even heard those who say that the Church has always been opposed to executions, but I challenge them to cite one passage of Scripture or one creed, one conciliar document, one encyclical that unequivocally condemns the execution of murderers.
It is death that makes life so precious. Even Adam and Eve, without knowing it, lived under the shadow of the death that might come to them if they rebelled against their creator, and some protoplasmic earth-blob that were to go on growing throughout eternity would endure an existence without moral significance.
Why Anthony Kennedy’s resignation matters–and why it doesn’t.
The wise men of 1787, as suspicious of the absolutism of an entrenched elite as they were of mob rule (which they called democracy), never intended the Supreme Court to hold ultimate or absolute authority over decisions made by all American governments.
The Supreme Court, supposedly designed as a check on arbitrary government, has been a force for tyranny since the days of John Marshall.
Rex Scott and Thomas Fleming take on both Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the manager of the Red Hen
I only have one question to put to conservatives who are waxing wroth about the media coverage of the Trump Administration: Why are you reading Time and the New York Times? Why are you watching ABC, CNN, and FOX?
To Taine’s great credit, he was not taken in by the myth of two revolutions: the British-style reformist revolution of 1789, followed by the Jacobin Terror caused by a few bad men who betrayed the spirit of 1789. This pernicious myth–like the myth of the good Kerensky in 1917 or of England’s Glorious Revolution–blinds us to the realities of our own times, when socialists and Trotskyists complain that 60’s radicals betrayed the dream.
