Given how accessible porn is nowadays, it has inevitably caused certain dislocations in contemporary courtships. I do urge fathers to bring the subject up when prospective suitors first seek their permission to court their daughter. A father may feel it is an awkward subject for him to bring up, but it is certainly not going …
With All the Gravel Frozen Over?
Here is a link that looks promising. At that place, Justin Taylor quotes Greg Forster as saying, among other things, this: “No doubt America’s church leaders are as concerned as anyone else about the grave news emerging from the European financial crisis. It threatens a disruption so serious that every economy in the world would …
Just Me Being Silly
Yesterday the House approved the National Defense Authorization Act, and the Senate is likely to do the same today. There is a possibility that the president will sign it, but he might veto it, and things have come to a pretty pass when I am hoping that Obama will protect us from the Republicans. What …
Reagan and Mao
Conservatism is not a static ideology. It is not an ideology at all, actually, but it is especially not a static one. But ostensible conservatives today like to act as though the decision of the ages rests upon whether we want Obama in or out. Everything rides on the consequences of this election. This is …
Newt’s Three Laws of Motion
As I have been musing on the current Newt FEEnom, observing how many ostensible conservative pundits have all the principled stability of a well-greased weather vane on a gusty day, it occured to me to jot down a few thoughts on the underlying laws that are involved. These laws or principles are the result of …
Covetousness and Sexual Discontent
Not all sexual covetousness is lust. When a man gives way to lust simpliciter the end result is arousal. When a man gives way to sexual covetousness, the end result is discontent and a vague sense of entitlement. Here is the distinction. In Romans 7, the apostle Paul says that he would not have known …
Who’s Who in the Horse Race
As we continue to watch the gaudy show that we call the primaries, we need to keep all the factors in mind. Inductive arguments are not valid or invalid, but are rather strong or weak. In an inductive argument, you are reasoning from the particular to the general. If you say that you saw a …
Monga Debt and National Security
In the recent national security debate, Newt Gingrich clashed with Ron Paul, who had said something that sounded like “terrorism is bad, and we should certainly go after them for doing such things.” Paul had cited Oklahoma City as an example. In response Newt said that the point was to head off such attacks beforehand, …
One of Jupiter’s Moons
Those who are accustomed to the language of punditry know that when a candidate or office holder is said to “pivot,” this means that he has double-crossed somebody, most usually the people who elected him. “Pivoting” is a nice way of saying that I am going to go off and do something else now. “Something …
Slaughtering Pigs With a Butter Knife
Okay, we know that the outlook and behavior of the president during all these debt negotiations has been lame sauce. But let us not forget virtually everybody else! The supercommittee failed to reach a consensus, and so — unless Congress acts — 1.2 trillion will be automatically cut from future spending, half from the military …