It seems appropriate, in the circumstances of the tragic story of a murder in Chicago and the uproar it has caused among certain Catholic zealots, to be reminded of a ten-year-old proclamation whic...

I think, and I expect others to do the same. I have some control over the first part of that statement, but I am helpless in advancing, and am continually disappointed in the second. Still, I ta...

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's aide has finally been forced to resign over her calling George W. Bush a "moron." Mr. Chrétien comes from the left wing of Canada's governing Liberals and ...

--in the islamic world as much as anywhere else. Salman Rushdie, at first disgusted with the usage of his name by islamic neanderthals as an epithet, now decides he should take pride in the label,...

He was checking out the chantrelle in the Whole Foods Market at the end of our block today, and I was too respectful of his privacy to indicate that I recognized him. But I didn't give a damn abou...

Ah, the beautiful logic of money and power. I've been wanting for some time to post an item on the fascinating Bush health and insurance care plans and to reference a compelling dichotomy, but Ted...

A Message, on behalf of all queers, to all strict Roman Catholics, oh, and also to all readers of The National Review: WE ARE NOT PAGAN BABIES We will not be baptized and become straight, any mor...

To Jeff Reilly, who did not leave an email address, and to everyone else who has commented on this post: You should read what I actually wrote. Nowhere is there a reference to an evil person, but...

I have not yet discontinued the "comments" function of the log, although I have been sorely tempted and may still do so. So, those who have an interest in the descriptions ["sick," "pervert," "sic...

--supplied by its own scientific agencies. This is to save us all from the evils of information relating to human sexuality. The winners? The AIDS virus, teenage pregnancy, cancer and other dise...