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June 23, 2015
Post-gender Europe
Europe has gone further than the United States in embracing the new ideologies about sex, gender, and political-correctness. And it’s going even further: to unisex bathrooms, laws mandating women on corporate boards, and regulations about how men and women may be portrayed. For example, it will not be legal for billboards in Germany to show [Read More...]
“We Don’t Deserve Alexander Hamilton On Our Currency”
You’ve got to read Mollie Hemingway’s piece in the Federalist: We Don’t Deserve Alexander Hamilton On Our Currency. It defies excerpting. It covers far more than just the woman-on-the-$10-bill issue. I can’t explain it. Just read it. You’ll be glad you did. Most of you. Quite a few of you.
June 22, 2015
The Pope goes all in on environmental issues
Pope Francis published his encyclical Laudato Si (“praise to you,” from the first words of the document), fully embracing the environmentalist cause. It warns of global warming, says man is responsible, and calls for sweeping changes to save the earth. It also, as we will blog tomorrow, makes some sweeping theological changes that constitute a [Read More...]
The Common Core in action
The Common Core requires that at least half of what elementary and middle school students read be non-fiction. By 12th grade, that goes up to 70%. And the non-fiction being read is not that of the great minds of our heritage but online posts, government documents, and United Nations proclamations. The New York Times has [Read More...]
Pro-abortion activists plan new strategy
The strategy of abortion apologists up to now has been to employ euphemism (“pro-choice”) and use extreme situations (rape, incest) to make their case. Activists have now decided that to “normalize” abortion and to present it as a good thing, they need to use the word they used to draw away from, “abortion,” and emphasize [Read More...]
The Royals play the National League All-Stars
Voting for baseball’s All-Star team used to involve going to a game and then, between innings, punching out the chads next to the player you thought was best at his position. But then some of the voting went online. This year all of the voting is online. You don’t have to go to a game [Read More...]
June 19, 2015
Reviews of “Whisper, Whisper: Learning about Church”
What they are saying at Amazon about my daughter’s new book, Whisper, Whisper: Learning About Church, after the jump. Let me put it this way. If you can buy either mine or hers, buy hers. It’s cheaper anyway. Whisper, Whisper: Learning About Church Through worship, our Heavenly Father blesses, forgives and strengthens all of His [Read More...]
Bibliotherapy
Did you know that there is such a thing as bibliotherapy, in which counselors will prescribe a course of books to read as a way of working through emotional or mental problems? Read about bibliotherapy–along with accounts of some fascinating research into the psychology and neurology of reading–in this article by Ceridwen Dovey: Can Reading [Read More...]
What woman should go on the $10 bill?
The Department of the Treasury has announced that a portrait of a woman will be featured in a new design of the $10 bill. (According to the website FAQs, Alexander Hamilton–an architect of the Constitution, a designer of the U.S. economic system–will still have a place somewhere on the currency.) The department is soliciting suggestions [Read More...]
Nine killed in Charleston church shooting
A young man who had been attending a Bible study for an hour suddenly began shooting in a Charleston, SC, church, killing 9 people–six women and three men, including the pastor. The shooter, a 21 year old white supremacist, was arrested. The church is an African-American congregation. From White suspect arrested in killing of nine [Read More...]
