In spite of a weak economy and terrible employment numbers, Barack Obama, the most pro-abortion president in our nation’s history and the only sitting U.S. president to declare support for same-sex marriage, easily won reelection.
Archive for Category: "Culture"
November 26, 2012 07:10
The Decline and Fall of America
What, then, might happen to America? Considering the current economic situation, some kind of collapse is of course possible. Most likely the United States will change into something else, into a “soft” totalitarian society envisioned by Alexis de Tocqueville, where its citizens are “cared for” but weighted down by mountains of rules and bereft of any dynamism, creativity, or imagination—subservient, socialist, and senile.
November 21, 2012 06:56
UPS Says No to Boy Scouts, Yes to Gay Groups
UPS recently announced it would stop funding the Boy Scouts of America because the Boy Scouts will not risk having its scouts led by scoutmasters who might have a sexual interest in the boys.
November 20, 2012 05:26
C.S. Lewis’s Unheeded Warnings on Abuses of Science
Lewis has important things to tell us about this growing abuse of science, and he offers penetrating insights into many hot-button issues of our time, including evolution, intelligent design, bioengineering, moral relativism, and even the role of government.
November 19, 2012 10:59
Republicans Got the Shellacking We Deserve
What we learned from 2012 is the Republican Party needs to stop talking only to white people. It’s not working and won’t win the elections of tomorrow.
November 16, 2012 07:14
A silver lining for social conservatives
Liberalism offers help for the misery it creates. Its “compassion,” therefore, is forever needed.
November 16, 2012 06:15
Romney in Retrospect
Mankind is not one dimensional. Despite what Ayn Rand might tell us, we are more than self-interested, economically-driven creatures. We are spiritual and emotional and relational beings who seek community in civil society. Yes we have individual rights, but we also have obligations to our fellow citizens.
November 8, 2012 08:29
Did GOP’s White Flag on Social Issues Cost the Election?
What we had unfortunately was a de facto truce on social issues on one side, but a full embrace of the war on social issues on the other side. Republicans had the truce, Obama had launched a war over abortion and on the Life issue, therefore he got to completely define what that issue was ..
November 8, 2012 08:09
America’s Fundamental Transformation
The president’s unceasing class-warfare rhetoric was rewarded by the electorate, as were his attacks on profits, the private sector, the wealthy, banking and investment, and the oil and natural gas industry. .. That is a tragedy, the levels of which we will not be able to appreciate.
November 6, 2012 10:31
Sustaining Democracy without Morality: A Lesson in Futility
The present administration is far more interested in catering to radicals and the Hollywood elite than in adhering to the values and vision the nation’s Founders emphasized.
