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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Muslim Frog Wars

Tony Blankley pegs much of the frog problem [http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051108-102827-5782r.htm]: > As Paul Belien, writing from Brussels this weekend, observed: "It is not anger that is driving the insurgents to take it out on the secularized welfare states of Old Europe.

There is No Possible Domestic Policy

WaPo and others continue to think there's a way to placate the rioters [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801109.html] : > But the insoluble violence in urban France should inspire more than just schadenfreude in this country. Although there isn't

Bible Gets You Three

> Religious persecution in China has reached the point that distributing Bibles is earning a three-year prison sentence [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051109-122418-9246r.htm]. I like this ironic twice: > Friends of Falun Gong, a religious movement espousing meditative practices, say that more than 100,000

Seeking the Invisible

Interesting essay at NYT [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/science/08essay.html] about man's innate tendency to look for invisible verities. The writer says it's common to religious types and scientific types. His concluding paragraphs: > Religious belief that the universe is the handiwork

CE Podcasts

Catholic Exchange is running some good podcasts. They're only 4 minutes long and packed with information. Today's (11/8/05) is especially good, and most fitting for people who enjoy this blog's "dog children" posts. Link [http://podcast.catholicexchange.com/].

A 13-Year-Old Understands

From a Kathryn Lopez op-ed [http://www.nationalreview.com/lopez/lopez200511080812.asp]: > Recently, "Ask Amy" newspaper-advice columnist took a question from a woman in one of these marriages: "He's not abusive in any way, to the kids or me; I just don&

High Praise for Catholics

From the New Republic: > Evangelicals began aggressively reaching out to Catholics for intellectual aid. That movement reached its apotheosis with the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. With his addition to the ranks of Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and John Roberts, all five members of

Major Passion

> The movie industry has been in the economic doldrums. ... But 43 percent of Americans are church-goers, many of whom find themselves mocked and their values undermined in the typical Hollywood fare. But when Christians found a movie they liked -- The Passion of the Christ -- they made it the

Outsourcing Porn

> Viewers tuning in for the evening news in India were shocked when they were left watching a Russian porn movie. > Angry residents in Kailaras, who wanted to watch an English-language news report, blame the mix-up on technicians from the Kailaras relay station. > They believe the

Oy! JPII

I'm not sure if this was published today or last spring (the dateline is ambivalent). Either way, I missed it: > A Manchester historian has claimed that Pope John Paul II was Jewish. > Yaakov Wise says his study into the the maternal ancestry of Karol Josez Wojtyla