What is fundamentally objectionable is not the man himself, who had his virtues and insights as well as vices, just like the rest of us; what is objectionable is the militant, uncritical cult which has grown up around his memory; what is downright contemptible are the slavish gestures made by various “Christian conservative” pundits seeking to hitch their wagons to said cult.
By far the most important political development of recent weeks was not the impeachment farce, but Trump headlining the annual March for Life rally in D.C. – the first sitting president to do so. It’s worth watching all 16 minutes of it, or reading the transcript at the same link. Since the unconstitutional and unconscionable Roe v. Wade edict in 1973, the March has been avoided even by Republicans Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, all at least officially pro-life. Might Nixon have escaped Watergate and remained in office, or Ford have beaten Carter in 1976, if they...
The plot of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri turns on a clause in the fairy constitution which states that “any fairy shall die who doth marry a mortal.” At the end of the second and final act of this masterpiece of English sarcasm, however, the Lord Chancellor, who has declared himself an old hand at all matters legislatorial, proposes a small change that will allow members of the House of Lords to intermarry with fairies. This the constitutional guardian achieves by changing the word “doth” to the word “don’t,” so the problematic clause now says...
In politics, there’s nothing more fun than seeing two of your opponents tear one another apart. So I hope you’re enjoying the war between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
I recalled the episode, and the man, while perusing the British papers overflowing with the Royal Family scandal of the moment. Briefly, this centers on the person of the American mulatta C-list actress who has married the younger son of Prince Charles and is now blackmailing the Queen into releasing her and her husband from Royal duties
In deciding whether it would be just to retaliate against an act of aggression, we should also consider the nature of the intended target. Is it an old an honorable ally, whose current leadership has made a mistake or is it an inveterate enemy that has consistently transgressed the laws of nations? It makes a difference…
Mike Bloomberg is pushing a campaign slogan, “Mike Can Do It,” which ripped off Jeb! Bush’s “Jeb Can Fix It” from four years ago. And Bloomberg is pushing “I Like Mike,” which rips off “I Like Ike” from Eisenhower’s 1952 and 1956 campaigns.
Greenies would like to terrify us into totalitarian measures designed to eliminate human civilization—if not humanity itself—from the planet. Manmade Global Climate Change (finally) is the latest proof that our way of life, especially our bourgeois individualism and weird attachment to private property, is evil.
As it is now Russian Christmas, let us be jolly. Besides, I have so fatigued the gentle reader of late with my special brand of gloom and doom, even a single ray of sunshine may restore him to the belief that Wednesday’s Child is not congenitally insensible to the lighter side of life.
The consequences of war are one of the elements in Christian theories of just war. Now, few Americans are sufficiently Christian as to take Christian arguments seriously. They may justly claim to have “joy joy joy” down in their hearts, but that joy will not prevent them from divorcing their wives, cheating on their taxes, or watching Hollywood movies
