Heidelcast 69: Stella Morabito On Political Correctness

Heidelcast

on May 17, 2014 | 1 Comment

The Heidelcast is a broadcast about history and theology and recovering the Reformed confession but one of my great concerns in recent years has been the potential and actual loss of religious and other civil liberties. It’s not unusual for Reformed ministers . . . Continue reading →

Churchill On VE Day 1945

R. Scott Clark

on May 8, 2014 | 2 Comments

HT: On this, the 69th anniversary of V-E Day, listen to Winston Churchill deliver the news. http://t.co/5AVtkkWhWo — Chris Stirewalt (@cstirewalt) May 8, 2014

Murphy Brown Is Still Wrong And Her Choice Affects Freedom

R. Scott Clark

on May 7, 2014 | 1 Comment

Ultimately, the Cahn-Carbone argument is about separation and isolation. It serves primarily to separate people and separate families. And it’s another example of how children are the pawns and political footballs in just about every so-called “progressive” agenda. Ironically, the argument also . . . Continue reading →

Outraged America

R. Scott Clark

on April 30, 2014 | 20 Comments

I grew up in a mostly white neighborhoods but, for several years, I went to mixed-race schools. There was a lot of racial tension in my hometown back then. There were “race riots” in 1968 and tensions simmered for years after. Maybe . . . Continue reading →

Morabito: This Is A Test AND An Actual Emergency

R. Scott Clark

on April 29, 2014 | 1 Comment

Lots of folks have been scratching their heads wondering how genderless marriage — which seemed just a fantasy on the fringes just a decade or so ago — so quickly became a reality of American public policy today. There are a lot . . . Continue reading →

Williamson Contra Piketty

R. Scott Clark

on April 25, 2014 | 1 Comment

We treat the physical results of capitalism as though they were an inevitability. In 1955, no captain of industry, prince, or potentate could buy a car as good as a Toyota Camry, to say nothing of a 2014 Mustang, the quintessential American . . . Continue reading →

Murray To Azusa Pacific Students: Think For Yourself

R. Scott Clark

on April 24, 2014 | 2 Comments

The task of the scholar is to present a case for his or her position based on evidence and logic. Another task of the scholar is to do so in a way that invites everybody into the discussion rather than demonize those . . . Continue reading →

An Elitist Mob Tells The Unwashed Masses

R. Scott Clark

on April 23, 2014

As with all such discussions, an elitist few take it upon themselves to tell the unwashed masses what they may and may not say — or by logical extension, what they may or may not think. These self-appointed arbiters of speech and . . . Continue reading →

Dislocation, Fear, and Dependency

R. Scott Clark

on April 16, 2014 | 3 Comments

In her 1995 book Cults in our Midst, Margaret Thaler Singer (d. 2003) explores in detail the methods and processes of coercive persuasion. These methods are used not just by cult leaders, but by anyone who manipulates the behavior of others in . . . Continue reading →

Samuel Miller Contra The Peculiar Institution

R. Scott Clark

on April 12, 2014 | 2 Comments

Pride, indeed, may contend, that these unhappy subjects of our oppression are an inferior race of beings; and are therefore assigned by the strictest justice to a depressed and servile station in society. But in what does this inferiority consist? In a . . . Continue reading →

Morabito: Soft Show Trials

R. Scott Clark

on April 4, 2014 | 3 Comments

There’s a more “civilized and softer” side to the idea of show trials, which was brought to us this week by Mozilla. It means that when someone carries a belief in his heart that doesn’t meet the approval of the preachers of . . . Continue reading →

A New Dark Age

R. Scott Clark

on March 25, 2014 | 14 Comments

Truth About Religious Liberty And Obamacare

R. Scott Clark

on March 24, 2014 | 1 Comment

Ezra Levant Speaks Up For Free Speech

R. Scott Clark

on March 15, 2014 | 3 Comments

(HT: Legal Insurrection)

Michael Crichton On Climate “Science”

R. Scott Clark

on March 5, 2014

It’s 1991, I am flying home from Germany, sitting next to a man who is almost in tears, he is so upset. He’s a physician involved in an FDA study of a new drug. It’s a double-blind study involving four separate teamsone . . . Continue reading →

Persecuted

R. Scott Clark

on March 1, 2014 | 2 Comments

More about the film.

Legal Scholars Explain Arizona SB1062

R. Scott Clark

on March 1, 2014 | 1 Comment

SB1062 would amend the Arizona RFRA to address two ambiguities that have been the subject of litigation under other RFRAs. It would provide that people are covered when state or local government requires them to violate their religion in the conduct of . . . Continue reading →

Deference To The Modern Priesthood?

R. Scott Clark

on February 28, 2014 | 3 Comments

It’s Not Science. It’s A Cult

R. Scott Clark

on February 28, 2014 | 42 Comments

The Arizona Question

R. Scott Clark

on February 27, 2014 | 31 Comments

The question isn’t whether businesses run by people opposed to gay marriage on religious grounds should provide their services for gay weddings; it is whether they should be compelled to by government. The critics of the much-maligned Arizona bill pride themselves on . . . Continue reading →

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