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The Imaginative Conservative is such a refreshing contrast

By Adam Minihan | September 23, 2014

…to the Thing that Used to be Conservatism.Here’s a piece by the inimitable Brad Birzer on the Conservative Humanist.Here’s a piece on Tolkien’s Imagination of the Good.Here’s a piece on the feminism of B16:One of the greatest lies propagated by Western liberal media is that Pope Benedict XVI was a crusty old miser and “patriarchal”…

I love Terry Nelson

By Adam Minihan | September 23, 2014

The man has his head screwed on straight.

A Catholic family could really use our help

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

Very briefly, Dad is struggling to find work.  Mom is in school.  They are trying to feed their family (which involves complicated food allergies).  And they have a crazy neighbor making life hell for them and a landlord who wants to put them on the street, as well as other bills piling up.Mom writes:We’re already…

In Defense of Gentlemanly Things

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

The following is a guest post by Jason Craig, Executive Director of Fraternus. Vanity turns us in on ourselves, like all sin. But in the case of the superficial or vain “gentleman” we are turned inward with the false image of being a man for others, a vanity more pitiable than others. The gentleman, after…

Laughing and Fistbumping as they Beat a Handcuffed Nurse

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

…the LAPD cops forgot that the growth of the surveillance state is not an unalloyed benefit to the police it is supposed to empower.One presumes they will get the customary Severe Vacation with Pay for beating the living daylights out of a defenseless woman. But now and then justice is done when they get caught…

Chosenness

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

…is under discussion over at the Register.You can’t really escape the concept of being “chosen” by being an atheist. You merely escape the reason for being humble about it, when you reject the biblical tradition.

German Muslims Condemn ISIS

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

…in nationwide day of prayer.Dear Christian reader, C.S. Lewis remarks:“Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling, ‘Thank God, even they aren’t quite…

Required reading on Catholic Social Teaching

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

Courtesy of book maven Ian Rutherford.

Christianity in Iraq is Finished

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

Thanks to us. We absolutely owe it to these people to take them in as refugees.

Eyeroll of the Day

By Adam Minihan | September 22, 2014

Hysterical conservatives feel some compulsion to send me things like this:Francis is an instrument of the devil, pure and simple. There, I said it.Dear Reader: Your argument is compelling and persuasive. Thanks to this reasoned case, cogently put forward with relentless and crushing logic, I have concluded that the only sober course of action is…