by Terry Scambray
Faith, Resistance, and the Future: Daniel Berrigan’s Challenge to Catholic Thought. Edited by James L. Marsh and Anna J. Brown. Fordham University Press. 416 pages. Continue reading “The Orthodoxies of a Cult”
Month: June 2013
Libyan Intelligence: Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi Involved in U.S. Consulate Attack
by Raymond Ibrahim
According to a Libyan intelligence document, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where several Americans, including U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were killed. Continue reading “Libyan Intelligence: Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi Involved in U.S. Consulate Attack”
The Glue Holding America Together
As it fragments into various camps, the country is being held together by a common popular culture.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
By a.d. 200, the Roman Republic was a distant memory. Few citizens of the global Roman Empire even knew of their illustrious ancestors like Scipio or Cicero. Millions no longer spoke Latin. Italian emperors were a rarity. There were no national elections. Continue reading “The Glue Holding America Together”
The Mood of 1980
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Next year could be a frightening one, in the fashion of 1979–80. Continue reading “The Mood of 1980”
VDH on the Mark Levin Show (18:18)
Obama to Egyptian Christians: Don’t Protest the Brotherhood
by Raymond Ibrahim
As Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate in mass against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi’s rule on June 30, the latter has been trying to reduce their numbers, which some predict will be in the millions and eclipse the Tahrir protests that earlier ousted Mubarak. Continue reading “Obama to Egyptian Christians: Don’t Protest the Brotherhood”
The Senate Immigration Bill: Another Legislative Disaster
by Bruce S. Thornton
The “comprehensive immigration reform” bill cooked up by the Senate has a decided Obamacare stink to it. Like that disaster, the immigration bill is rushing to solve a whole host of complex problems with a massive, muddled bill few Senators will have the time or inclination to read in its entirety, with the same plethora of unforeseen expensive consequences, all perfumed with the same dubious CBO estimates of money saved and revenue increased. Continue reading “The Senate Immigration Bill: Another Legislative Disaster”
If Only Our Foreign Enemies Were Republicans
by Victor Davis Hanson
I cannot recall, in the last five years, Barack Obama ever identifying the Iranians, Hezbollah, or the late Hugo Chavez as among our “enemies,” in the fashion that he once urged Latino leaders to punish conservatives at the polls: Continue reading “If Only Our Foreign Enemies Were Republicans”
Immigration: If the Bill Passes
Both Obama’s record and the results of past immigration “reforms” paint a bleak picture.
by Victor Davis Hanson
There are lots of reasons to believe that most of what is promised in the current so-called comprehensive immigration-reform bill won’t be honored if it is passed by the full Congress and signed by the president. Continue reading “Immigration: If the Bill Passes”
Can the Human Mind Explain Itself?
by Terry Scambray
New Oxford Review
A Review of Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, Thomas Nagel. Oxford University Press, 2012. 128 pages. $24.95 Continue reading “Can the Human Mind Explain Itself?”