Not too long after Bobby Jindal announced that Republicans need to stop being the "stupid party," a third Republican governor threw his support behind plans for higher education that base funding on the profitability of the different academic disciplines. Patrick McRory, North Carolina's governor, singled out the liberal arts—and specifically philosophy—as an example of the frivolities that did
In the very excellent Touchstone Magazine, Anthony Esolen has given given ten arguments why same-sex marriage would be bad for society:
Most people believe that the principal objections, or even the only objections, to the drive to legalize homosexual “marriage” spring from religious faith. But that is not true. I can offer ten objections that have nothing to do with any religion at all,
The reviews of Les Misérables have been mostly positive, but a significant contingent of critics have been, not just negative, but hostile. On the surface, it's hard not to surmise that some of the hostility comes from the explicit and unapologetic Christian message. But Stanley Fish has put his finger on something deeper, and I suspect he's right.
He points out that the real voices of the
I will be speaking tonight at Lexington Latin School at 5:30. I will be speaking on the topic: "What is Education." The directions are here.
The expression "tolerance and diversity" operates the same way within the liberal secularism as the expression "libery, equality, fraternity" operated within the French Revolution: it is a comforting sounding slogan that hides a totalitarian impulse. If the Boy Scouts of America think they can really appease the cultural totalitarians in the PC movement, they are sorely mistaken.
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Ze vorzez of Toleranze are poised vonce again to claim victory in zeir battle to eliminate beliefz zat differ from zeir own.
Apparently succumbing to increasing pressure from the champions of Diversity (who will brook no opinion but their own) the Boy Scouts of America have apparently got hauled into the Politically Correct Ministry of Love a few too many times for their taste. It now
Okay, it's quiz time!
QUESTION: Which culturally backward, socially retrograde country is experience massive protests against a proposed law legalizing same-sex marriage:
a. Albania
b. India
c. Bhutan
d. France
e. Massachusetts
And the ANSWER is ... France. Seriously.
Now if I had to pick the country least likely to have a problem with same-sex marriage, I would pick France. And yet there
Liberalism gets more absurd by the moment.
The recent dust-up over sportscaster Brent Musburger's remarks during the national championship college football game about Miss Alabama reveal once again just how preposterous modern secular liberal culture has become. It is another bit of evidence that when a culture no longer has an actual religion to provide its centripetal force, it spins off
Passion City Church founder and pastor Louie Giglio has been removed from President Obama's second inaugural program. He had been slated to give the inaugural prayer until it was discovered that the had said negative things about homosexuality in an old sermon. At that point, the Tolerance Police once again swung into action, cracking down on Giglio for voicing the Christian view that
It was reported today that Sannie Overly (D-Paris) beat out Bob Damron (D-Nicholasville) for the position of Majority Caucus Chairman, one of the five Democratic leadership posts in the House (if you count Speaker and Floor Leader, which are technically bipartisan posts but are controlled by the majority party).
The big story in the media is that Overly is the first woman to occupy a
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