Yawper

Many accusations are leveled at political conservatives.  More specifically, many vile accusations are leveled at political conservatives.  Emblematic of the anti-conservative rage that pervades the Left is the jaw-dropping idiocy of Kanye West’s declaration that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” The torrent of epithets cast at the Right obviously says more about the […]

In these closing days of 2012, Pope Benedict XVI made perhaps the most interesting remark of the year. Delivering the annual message to the Vatican bureaucracy, Benedict said, “the manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man’s fundamental choice where he himself is concerned.”  This statement is an […]

As a parent I hear about fairness all the time.   “It’s not fair!” is the usual form.  This declaration piques my interest because it seems to me that kids, and thus all people, have an innate sense of the rightness of fairness.  Yet a call for fairness from my kids, as in much political copy, […]

Next month atheists are holding a big rally on the Washington mall.  They want to celebrate the God-free lifestyle and advance the cause of secularism.  I find this baffling.  There are actually three things about atheists that I just do not understand.  Evangelical atheism is the most confounding mystery. Either there is a God (or […]

Today I learned that the word “character,” a word we may use to describe strong, usually positive, personality traits, is derived from Greek where it meant “to engrave.”  The etymology gives me a new perspective on the idea of character development in myself and my children.  To build character is to etch a heart, to […]