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Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed. After a nanosecond I replied, “Kick [...]
Patrick J. Buchanan says that the conquest of the West has begun, but it will be done by way of demographic changes throughout the globe. Western mortality rates are greatly outpacing birth rates, expelling the dying breaths of Western culture by mid-century. Meanwhile, in other regions of the world, populations are exploding: What is the [...]
Filed under: Round-up
On the day when all the headlines are about the UN’s official world headcount hitting 7 billion, it’s worth noting that a former cornerstone of American protestantism also hit another ominous milestone. The Episcopal Church — by some counts, the religious home of more American presidents than any other denomination — reported last week that [...]
Filed under: Religion
The attacks on Herman Cain that I’ve encountered in recent weeks have gone from dumb to outrageous. I’m not speaking of any substantive complaint, for example, that his 9/9/9 flat tax plan may be simplistic or that Cain took two opposing positions on abortion in the same interview. A longtime businessman, he is admittedly a [...]
On Oct. 31, the U.N. Population Fund marks the arrival of the 7 billionth person on Earth and raises the population estimate for the planet at mid-century to 9.3 billion people. There is a possibility, says the United Nations, that, by century’s end, world population may reach 15 billion. What does this mean for Western [...]
Lewis McCrary comments on the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial, and suggests that though Washington D.C. has inclined towards increasingly elaborate tour-bus-friendly mega-memorials, there are more modest and meaningful ways to celebrate the figures who shaped our nation. Rock group R.E.M. hung up their hats this past summer, but that moment came far too late, A.G. [...]
Fighting over new additions to the capital’s collection of memorials is to be expected these days, with the recently opened $120 million MLK memorial criticized for what seemed to some a totalitarian style; no less than Maya Angelou said it was unable to convey to the humility that defined the man. But that granite has [...]
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi says that the decision to kill Yemeni-American imam Anwar al-Awlaki, rather than capture him alive, was motivated by a desire to avoid the complications of a trial. [T]he question of a military tribunal or a civilian court would be debated in Congress and the media. The evidence against al-Awlaki included [...]
Filed under: Round-up
I did a cover article for The American Conservative back in 2005 called “Money for Nothing”. I detailed how more than $20 billion of mostly Iraqi government funds earmarked for reconstruction had disappeared. In one case a Blackhawk helicopter load of $100 bills was handed over to a contact in the Kurdish region without so [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy, War
Amid this week’s debate over the meaning of a Vatican department’s call for regulation of the global economy, we should note that there are some Catholics who don’t endorse the status quo or a new global Leviathan — these neo-distributists both find fault with current market arrangements and seek local solutions. This position happens to be [...]