When it comes from FOX News, of course. On Tuesday, July 31, FOX News published a transcript of Neil Cavuto’s “Common Sense.” According to the transcript, Cavuto—supposedly a financial journalist—tried to claim that Apple had overpromised and underdelivered on ...
On Friday, July 20, President Bush issued an executive order that seems designed mainly to protect members of his administration from prosecution once he leaves office. At least, that’s the most charitable interpretation I can put on it. The order interprets Common Article 3 of ...
Reading Paul Weyrich’s article today on Hugo Chavez’s crackdown on the Venezuelan media, and our “free” media’s reaction to it, brought to mind an event from my first term at Michigan State. Our campus parish, like most Catholic parishes around colleges and ...
Three headlines from the month of July: ”45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids” (from the Telegraph of London) ”Italy ‘terror school’ imam had bomb chemicals-police” (from Reuters) ”Former U.S sailor in terror case discussed attacking military ...
Zimbabwe is a disaster area, ruled by a Marxist dictator whose murderous tendencies make Saddam Hussein look like a saint. The massacres of the early years of Robert Mugabe’s rule may soon look like a mere warm-up compared with the mass starvation descending on the former ...
The news that Crisis magazine will cease print publication September 1, to be replaced by a free online version, is sad—perhaps not in itself, but for what it represents. I never thought much of Crisis as a whole (its Catholicism was always tainted with neoconservative politics), and ...
What is the life of a 17-year-old worth? Two stories caught my eye today—one from the Rockford Register Star, the newspaper of my adopted hometown of Rockford, Illinois, and one from the Grand Haven Tribune, which I grew up reading in Spring Lake, Michigan. Each is the story of a young ...
Last week, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) released a remarkable little document that could prove nearly as important as the motu proprio liberalizing the use of the Traditional Latin Mass. Despite some deliberately provocative reporting by the AP and ...
In 1988, as a student at Michigan State University, I took a course on the development of Christian doctrine under Tom Ryba, now the theologian-in-residence at the St. Thomas Aquinas Center at Purdue University. One of the texts was Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and ...
In the comments on “Control the Borders, Not the Citizens,” Michael Morris suggests that I’m engaging in “fear-mongering” when I mention the possibility that Islamic immigration to the United States has reached critical mass. I think Mr. Morris misread me, so let ...
