In six vids:
What’s up with the arbitrary elitism enjoyed by Harvard, Yale, and other such law schools’ graduates? They study the same things as every other law school in the country, yet are offered clerkships in the highest echelons of government and firms. I don’t buy it… This doesn’t fit anywhere else….: Baird just sent me a…
DetailsI didn’t gauge the depth of Apocalypto this way, but I suppose…I don’t know if I would give Mel Gibson that kind of credit, but I guess it’s plausible… The Vatican has its own media liaison just like the White House. At a recent talk at Marquette, that liaison, John Allen, took the time to…
DetailsForcing ‘rights’ on people is nothing new, but it never seems to get old. Leftists are the only ones who think for themselves. Talk about a unifying president: Wow-ch!:Hope everyone was okay… Malthus’ life theory was a blunder. But the sentiment is still quite popular. Sigh…: Copyrighted under Creative Commons for Kevin Johnston 2011 at…
Detailsbut this article had a great quote: “I have long felt a tension between freedom and materialism. Ascetics across the ages have understood that austerity breeds sensitivity. “If you would know the flavor of huckleberries,” began Thoreau, but I would end it saying nothing could heighten the sensations more than fasting. Likewise, materialism has deadened…
DetailsLifelong Republican WWII Veteran on Gay Marriage:
I know, I know, I hate arguments from emotion. But dammit, he’s right with that great line in the middle of the clip about raising kids with different rights…
with what I have been saying about what the right wing has become: “…But this general sense of populist discontent, which I respect as a Chestertonian, is largely rudderless and, in the complete vacuum of ideas left by the Right’s embrace of state giantism, salvation through leviathan by any means necessary, and the brain dead…
DetailsGolgotha – and having nothing to do with the above, – “Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Think things, not words.” In words, many see aneed for “social justice” to override “the dictates of the market.” In reality,what is called “the market” consists of human beings making their own choices attheir own cost. What is called “social…
Detailsversion of myself: “In the last year, though, as I’ve been blogging — to keep my head on straight — I’ve encountered something: there’s an entire generation of wild intellects out there who have fought their way through the world to Catholicism, not as a comfort or a salve but as a drama and bulwark,…
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