Roundup, July 21: Golf Clubs, Pitchforks and Nukes
A few weeks ago my friend Felix Veritas asked if the United States is a dying country, and he was pessimistic, but not defeatist. Now my friendly correspondent Steve McCann […]
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Sunday Reflections: Shepherding
Three of this week’s four readings — see here, Track 2 — involve what are by now quite familiar analogies to shepherdry. The most famous, of course, is the 23rd […]
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Felix Veritas: Trump’s traction sends GOP field a message – Grow a spine!
By Felix Veritas By now everyone’s aware of Donald Trump’s escalating poll numbers and increasing traction among Republican voters. While his opposition – both GOP and Democrat – dismiss it […]
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Sunday Reflections, July 12: on Psalm 24
Today’s reflection is simple. I’ll ignore the rest of the readings. The Psalm today is number 24. It’s first five verses are an even simpler, more direct summary of the […]
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Felix Veritas: Liberals fighting religious freedom’s past champion
By Felix Veritas Revisionist history is tricky. When you try re-writing the past — like the liberal Left is today – sometimes you forget details….little indentations in the painted canvas […]
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Sunday Reflections, July 5, 2015: The Call to Service
Today’s readings are: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10; Psalm 48; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; and Mark 6:1-13. Especially at first, I don’t know what to make of them: I can’t figure out how they all fit […]
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Felix Veritas: What the American culture needs to survive
This is the next installment in our series of contributions by a mysterious denizen of Mobile, Alabama, named “Felix Veritas.” I promise that I am not Felix and Felix is […]
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Monday Reflections, June 29: Religious Liberty Threatened
Regular readers will note that I did not have my regular Sunday reflection yesterday. This is a Monday reflection — a leftover, part of the aftermath. And it is so […]
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Intellectual Perfidy at the Supreme Court
By Quin Hillyer Consistency is not exactly the greatest virtue of some of our U.S. Supreme Court justices. Setting aside deeper analysis of whose constitutional interpretations are most cogent or […]
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Chief Justice Roberts is Intellectually Dishonest
My very, very quick reaction (within about two minutes of the decision) to Thursday’s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare was short and not at all sweet. Read it here. You […]
