Piers Morgan, the insult-slinging CNN talking head who got so rattled by a gun rights advocate last week that he completely lost his composure, is now the subject of a petition calling for his deportation from the U.S. I, for one, would not be sorry to see the British expatriate sent packing back to the island from whence he came. The problem is that, apparently, they don't want him back.
The Associated Press is eliminating the term "homophobia" from its style guide. Surely the AP had a crisis of conscience and decided it should stop using hate terms for people who disagree with gay rights politics in its news stories.
Well, dream on.
The word "homophobia" was first used to indicate a homosexuals fear that others might think he was gay. It has been transformed by gay rights
I am changing my position on gun control. But not because I think that more gun control will prevent shootings like the one in Newtown, Connecticut (it won't), but in order to save liberals.
In the days following the tragic shootings, my initial concern for the families has slowly given way to a concern for liberals, and particularly those liberals who populate the media. If you saw Piers
Last we heard from CNN's Piers Morgan, he was covering the Whitney Houston funeral and trying to figure out this God thing all these Black people were talking about. That was Piers the Confused. But last night, it was Piers the Rabid. He completely lost his composure (in addition to the argument) last night with Larry Pratt, the head of Gun Owners of America, when, after accusing Pratt of not
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Blanderson Stupor: Thank you for joining us for BNN's continuing coverage of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut [BNN=Blithering News Network]. When 26 people were killed last week by a gunman in a Connecticut elementary school, observers began asking questions: Why would someone do this to innocent people? How could this happen in today's world? What is
When I read the first volume of Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth, I was stunned by how good it was. I had read a couple things by the former Cardinal Ratzinger, and they were excellent, but I was still not expecting his book on Jesus to be as great as it was. I have read a lot of Bible commentaries in my time, but I was stunned by how many observations were contained in the book that I had
Friends and families of the victims in the Connecticut school shootings flocked to psychologists and other mental health professionals seeking comfort and solace in the hours after the news of the deaths came. Mental health clinics were mobbed with the people and lines extended out the doors as people sought answers to questions like "Why did this happen?"; "What does it all mean?"; and "How
There is Faith for a Reason:Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy's speech on the Newtown school shootings
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Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy gave the following address Friday at the community vigil at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown:
Good evening, everyone. Monsignor, thank you very much for opening this very beautiful church so that we might in a communal way find solace and one another as a result of the unspeakable having occurred in this community. People's children, brothers and
Every time a tragedy strikes, particularly one that involves children, we go into long soliloquies about all the things we need to do to help children deal with their grief. Any time, for example, that there is any kind of school violence, we call in "grief counselors."
But it is adults, not children, whose moral paradigms make it hard for them to make sense of tragedies like the one in
No sooner do you dispose of something than you realize how badly you need it.
There are very few times we trot out the word "evil" anymore. You get the impression we are supposed to have outgrown it or something. But while some people think we have outgrown the word "evil," evidence is still coming in that we haven't outgrown the reality.
Today's school shooting in Connecticut can be added to
According to Tim Stanley, Christianity is on the wane in Britain. At the same time, 176,632 people now identify themselves as Jedi Knights.
I'm thinking this may be further proof that, as Chesterton said, "With a long and sustained tug we have attempted to pull the mitre off pontifical man; and his head has come off with it."
Tim Stanley, of the Telegraph, on what throwing Christianity overboard could mean to England:
A couple of thousand years ago, these islands were populated by wild men who painted themselves blue and read their fortunes in the entrails of birds. Then we were Celtic Christians, then Catholics, then Protestants, then a colourful mix of social gospels and now, today, a nation of agnostics who scoff
A couple of thousand years ago, these islands were populated by wild men who painted themselves blue and read their fortunes in the entrails of birds. Then we were Celtic Christians, then Catholics, then Protestants, then a colourful mix of social gospels and now, today, a nation of agnostics who scoff
This is the first two pages or so of a 20 page essay I wrote some years ago. I've gone back to it several times, realizing it needed more work. I am going to use the recent article by Peter Kreeft in Touchstone Magazine and the recent response at First Thoughts as an excuse to go ahead and start posting it in pieces here to give me an excuse to finish it. It is still in draft form and parts of
I heard about Glenn Beck caving on the issue of same-sex marriage at the very moment that I was pondering a news report saying that, at his recent concerts, Justin Bieber had begun to grab his crotch. I began to wonder if this was entirely a coincidence and, after a moment's reflection, decided that it was not.
Beck's change of position on same-sex marriage is the political equivalent of
Traditional vs. Modern Logic: A short response to William Randolf Brafford's response to Peter Kreeft
I am going to post an article tomorrow that I worked on a few years ago on the differences between the traditional Aristotelian system of logic that I use in my logic texts (and which is still used at many Catholic schools) and the modern system that is emphasized in most college logic courses today.
In the meantime, here is a response I wrote to William Randolf Brafford, who wrote an article
In the meantime, here is a response I wrote to William Randolf Brafford, who wrote an article
The fashionable thing to say about the interest in Kate Middleton's pregnancy is that it is some kind of unhealthy obsession. Well, okay, too much of it would be an obsession. But the thinking seems to be that any interest in Kate Middleton's pregnancy or Kate Middleton or the royals at all is somehow misdirected.
The reason, apparently, is that the royals don't deserve the attention. Okay.
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