Frances Fox Piven has now told us that the Tea Party is all about sex, and I would like to be the first conservative to rise in an oblique defense of her crazy point. She says that the teapartiers grew up in an America when there was a steeple in every quaint little town, and …
Priests With Spears
It has been 35 years now, and when Nancy and I were first together we decided that if we had anything to work through, we would do it together. We determined that we would not ever share any problem with outsiders unless it was by mutual consent, and it was for the purpose of getting …
The Reformed Card and Gift Shop
So the sexual socialists found a few craven Republicans and jammed a sea change bit of legislation, the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” through a lame duck Congress. Instead of the president having to leave town in humiliation over the high-handed antics of a discredited Congress, this, and a few other passed and signed …
How Social Policing Works
The antithesis is foundational to any right understanding of social order. From the beginning of our history, God has placed antipathy between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). The human race is divided into two races, those who love holiness and those who do not. The former are …
The Transfat Community
And so now we come to see that the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law for the military does not cover transsexualites, or transgenderites. Neither does it cover transfats, but that is a separate issue for a separate jeremiad. Some other day perhaps. One searches in vain for an explanation for this indefensible …
Our Fumblo-Rulers
The debate over “don’t ask, don’t tell” reveals that virtually no one understands what is going on. The absence of discipline is impossible in any society, still less in the military. This means that the question is a “not whether but which” question. It means that it is not whether we will discipline servicemen in …
Special Parking Privileges
So, a professor at Columbia has been charged with some kind of incestuous relationship, and everybody was apparently a consenting adult, and so we are, again, face to face with the public incoherence of our rudderless sexual ethic. How is it possible, given all that we as a society have already granted, for us to …
You Don’t Get to Keep the Brick
When we say that one doctrine is more important than another one, we are not making a quantitative assessment. It is not the case, for example, that justification by faith alone is beach ball and baptismal modes are a baseball. The doctrines of the Bible are interrelated, and mutually dependant. Many of the doctrines of …
More on Nuisance Lust
“This is the way men deal with their enemies. They search out their plans, ponder their goals, and consider how and by what means they have prevailed in the past. Then, they can be defeated. This is a most important strategy. If you do not utilize this great strategy, your warfare is very primitive. We …
Most of Us Aren’t That Cute
People who follow trends are often very bad at reading them. People who read trends are often reluctant to join in the general merriment because they actually know what is being said. G.K. Chesterton once commented how gloriously wonderful and bright and cheerful Times Square would be . . . if you didn’t know how …