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Every child has a mother and a father. That's biology. But if you think that biological reality entails the natural right of every child to be connected to her own mother and father then Nathan Deal, the Republican Governor of Georgia, thinks you aren't as "
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Two recent items from the realms of faith, politics, and law deserve some reflection and applause. First, the House of Representatives has resolved, the Secretary of State Kerry has announced, that ISIS is guilty of genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shiite Muslims in Iraq and Syria. At a divisive moment
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What do faith and law have to do with each other? Do they have any relation? Should they?
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That our President has not demonstrated any serious understanding of the threat that ISIS poses to Western civilization is obvious to all but his most partisan supporters, i.e. nearly the entire news media, entertainment industry, and academic establishment — and now even they are beginning to notice his lack of
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The NewBostonPost recently ran a fine editorial by John Peteet, a medical doctor who expressed concern about the proposal to legalize assisted suicide in the commonwealth. His concern is warranted. Substantial evidence has now accumulated to show that legalizing assisted suicide corrupts the medical profession (see, for example, this, this,
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As liberal democracies assess the threat that ISIS poses and try to understand what motivates those who are attracted to it, an analogy springs to mind. Like the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century — Nazi and Communist — and like North Korea today, ISIS aspires to attain complete control of those
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Students at Vanderbilt University are targeting Carol Swain, a professor of law and politics at Vanderbilt (and a member of the James Madison Society, of which I also am a member), because she has criticized Islam — in other words, because she has her own views on matters of civic importance.
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1) The shootings that have recently occurred in Colorado, California, and elsewhere are tragic. But they are not tragedies in the way that a natural disaster is a tragedy. They are crimes. They involved inherently culpable, criminal acts. Unless the shooters were insane and not possessed of the ability to