Patrick O'Hannigan
UNC law professor and blogger Eric Muller took strong exception to what the Pope said at Auschwitz on May 28. Muller’s argument, which earned a collegial link from InstaPundit, is interesting if not always informed, so I thought I’d present…
My son Thomas, age eight, has been taking piano lessons long enough to start studying Beethoven, but his younger sister Jane is new to that instrument, and currently practicing from Keyboard Talent Hunt, Book One. The book is part of…
SAN DIEGO — My friend Stacey Warde, an Army veteran and sometime window washer, also edits a print-only literary journal published from a tool shed in Cayucos, California. His partner in media is a moonlighting taxi driver, and the two…
On returning to her Washington, D.C. broadcasting studio after a week-long visit with U.S. troops in Iraq, Laura Ingraham ended one of her talk radio monologues with words to the effect that she’d learned more about what the U.S. military…
Writing this week for Townhall.com in anticipation of his next televised special for 20/20, maverick news correspondent John Stossel penned another damning indictment of public education: At the meeting we watched, lots of important people attended: a director of programs…
Tuesday night, Barbara Walters hosted another of the TV specials whose master tapes probably double as coasters on one of her coffee tables, this time wondering whether heaven exists and how we might get there. Never shy about using her…
Andrew Sullivan is apoplectic. “If the guiding mantra of the last Pope was ‘Be Not Afraid!’, the lodestar of the current one is, arguably, the opposite,” Sullivan asserts. Not one to content himself with smirking when lying presents another opportunity…
Rob Vischer at Mirror of Justice uses a remark by Supreme Court nominee and practicing Catholic John Roberts to pose a not-entirely-rhetorical question. The remark that made Vischer’s antenna vibrate came in response to this September 13 query from Senator…
The email alluding to the bombings in London whose victims were still being pulled from the rubble where they died arrived Friday morning. It was a single sentence from my friend, Ann. “Gosh, I’m so happy Bush’s plan to ‘fight…
Have you noticed how much commentary about the passing of Pope John Paul II talks about his leadership without addressing what motivated that leadership? Pundits of varying reputation rightly credit Karol Wojtyla with leading the spiritual side of the fight…
