Please Note An Update
I’ve made a significant update to yesterday’s post about predicitions of the future effects of same-sex marriage in New England and Iowa. If the issue interests you, please revisit that post. Thank you for your attention.
Month: August 2009
The Punishment Should Fit The Crime
Now, I think there’s no problem with a law that requires you to register your guns. And Plaxico Burress owned a gun that he had not registered. And it went off when he carried it into a club in New… Continue Reading
Taking Predictions (Updated)
Over at TOries_and_WingNuts_ALL.com Townhall.com, another example of a thoughtful writer manifesting sanity and principle in the face of the shriller, more headline-generating style of what gets called “conservative” in political debate these days. In essence, Steve Chapman points out that… Continue Reading
The Spectacle Of The Principled Conservative
I don’t know why people find Ted Olson’s advocacy against Proposition 8 to be so surprising. He got to being opposed to Prop. 8 the same way a lot of people did — by realizing that restricting marriage to opposite-sex… Continue Reading
Immaturity
Concerning the issue of why, exactly, one should oppose health care reform, let me take on the subject of “Death Panels” and why, although they are a red herring, they reveal something interesting about the issue of how we deal… Continue Reading
A Christian’s Evaluation Of How Christians Treat Non-Believers
As always, I enjoy thoughtful Christian thoughts on how non-believers are to be treated. This is a particularly damning evaluation of the behavior of a particular institution, from which frankly I had low expectations to begin with. The author, whose… Continue Reading
What She Said
Preaching to the Choir: What part of no don’t you understand?
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Trick Question
I know it’s a little confusing. But here’s the thing. There is no Administration proposal for health care reform. Instead, what we’ve got are a set of principles and ideas that the President floated — first as a candidate and… Continue Reading
Big Day In History
August 14 is a big day in modern history, particularly if you have an interest in Asia. Several things that have built the world today into its current shape took place on August 14s over the past 150 years or… Continue Reading