Politics

October 3, 2018

R. R. Reno: Rage Politics on the Left

By R. R. Reno, First Things - Of the utopian dreams of the 1960s, only the sexual revolution has attained cultural dominance. To a great degree, we as a society believe in the promises of that revolution: that sex can be safe; that men and women can enjoy sexual freedom to the same degree and in the same way; that sex need have nothing to do with children; that sex is purely private. These promises are backstopped by abortion, the constitutional status of which fuels the urgency surrounding the Kavanaugh appointment.

October 3, 2018

James Kalb: The Pope as Supreme Being

By James Kalb, Crisis Magazine - But legitimate discernment is never open-ended. Saint Francis insisted on strict acceptance of Church authority, and Jesuit training emphasizes obedience and abandonment of ambition for ecclesiastical preferment. In the Holy Father’s case nothing substitutes for these limitations. He sits in the chair of Peter, is judged by no one, and has full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church. That suggests problems.

October 3, 2018

Kavanaugh Drank Beer? He Can’t Hold a Candle to Obama’s Pot and Cocaine Use

By Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews - From Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama: “I [Obama] blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years [in high school]. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow [cocaine] when you could afford it. Not smack, though – Micky, my potential initiator, had been just a little too eager for me to go through with that…. He had pulled out the needle and the tubing, and I’d looked at him standing there,

October 3, 2018

Cal Thomas: Delay, Deceive and Destroy

By Cal Thomas, The Patriot Post - Who believes another FBI investigation of Brett Kavanaugh will be the end of it? If the FBI finds nothing to support Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party, will it be enough for Democrats to vote to confirm him?