Culture

This compendium of quotes from the abortion march is worth taking a look at. Consider what the Hollywood Square Whoopi Goldberg said: Women are dying around the world from illegal abortions. We stand here, we’re marching, but let me explain something to you. As we stand, one woman is dying every six minutes. Now let’s … Read more

The pro-abortion march in D.C. over the weekend featured many name-droppable names: Ashley Judd, Allison Janney, Susan Sarandon and other Hollywood celebrities shared the stage later with politicians, diplomats and leaders of the pro-choice movement. Holding a white hanger, Whoopi Goldberg told the crowd: “Never again will this be the choice of any woman in … Read more

USA Today star journalist Jack Kelly, who fabricated a number of the stories that he wrote for the paper, issued a statement via his lawyer: I have made a number of serious mistakes that violate the values that are most important to me as a person and as a journalist. I recognize that I cannot … Read more

Prophecy may indeed be the world’s second oldest profession. Throughout the ages there have been those who insisted that they had a window into the future. Some were successful (Isaiah, Jeremiah) and some were not (Charles Taze Russell). Its seem that the mantle of the prophet has now been picked up by news agencies, ever-hoping … Read more

While I was visiting family back home in Northeast Tennessee this weekend, I was surprised to learn that the new Tennessee Lottery has made some rather dubious inroads. Even though I was pre-warned of the fact, I was still shocked to see a large Tennessee Lottery sign hanging on the side of the Goodwill Industries … Read more

Deanna Laney, who murdered two of her sons in the front yard and left the youngest maimed in a crib, was acquitted today by a Texas court. The court found that she did not know right from wrong when committing the act, thereby meeting the Texas definition of insanity. Texas law apparently does not know … Read more

If you’re a chronophile like me, you’ll really want to read Henry Sturman’s article, “Darkness at One,” where he says that Daylight Savings Time is a bad idea. Yes, friends and neighbors, this Sunday is the day when we all “lose” an hour of sleep. I’m not sure if I agree with Sturman in toto, … Read more

Russell Moore’s lament on the loss of the doctrine of sin in dealing with wife-beaters has me thinking about just how pervasive the “culture of therapy” has become. I think that psychology has a valuable place in the world as a discipline, but in a sense it has become the official religion of secularism. If … Read more

National Review’s John Derbyshire is, how should I say it, “smokin!” in his latest NRO column: We have not, in fact, gone “beyond tolerance” at all, we have merely invented new kinds of intolerance. We have not swept away caste-feudalism and replaced it with a shining meritocratic egalitarianism; we have just traded in one style … Read more