Aaron D. Wolf

Another week has come and gone, and here are some highlights and cultural trends: Trump and the Pope, celebrity tweeters; love can build a bridge; George W's Two-Corinthians moment; Chelsea Clinton, six-year-old theologian; Scalia's conservative legacy, and Ginsburg's; country music's lesbian male-fantasy world; Andalusia, Rockford, and St. Patrick.

Another week has come and gone, and here are some highlights and cultural trends: Republicans and the Lady Draft; the New Hampshire Race Card; Attack of the Populist Demagogue(s); the Meaning of O.J.; and Beyoncé's Hot Sauce.

Remember the 58 million infants who have been destroyed, and the like number of women who have been shattered, since January 22, 1973. When you do, stare down the purveyors of the Culture of Death and say with Bryan: We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy you.

Liberalism, as the recent attacks in Paris have shown, cannot provide the basis for a sustainable society.

If the role of religion in America today is to teach the faithful to bend over and kiss the ring of postmodernity and beg for forgiveness for actually believing something, the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod just failed spectacularly, flubbed its lines, and fell off the stage. I, for one, am elated.

Is the sale of dissected babies somehow going to persuade Americans, who think that it's just fine to throw their corpses in the trash, that infanticide is wrong? Will GOP candidates now be willing to say that it's wrong to dismember and discard (or poison and flush) the children of rape and incest victims?

Here’s where good can come out of today’s SCOTUS confirmation of American barbarism. Christians can wake up. Our dumbed-down, seeker-friendly, me-too, we’re not bigots, adult contemporary, pandering, doctrine-free, soundbite, entertainment-driven, non-confrontational, metrosexual, puerile, tepid, quivering, unserious Christianity must change.

The great thing about the New Symbolic Logic is that, since no traditional symbol is free of guilt by association, liberals at the DNC and MSNBC will never run out of things to denounce, and (liberals in) the GOP will never run out of things to denounce belatedly and apologize for inaffectively.

We don't need to wait with baited breath for the ruling. Like old milk, the culture has already turned.

With thousands of their base voters standing on the Washington Mall, the House GOP sat down on an IED and blew their own brains out.

What is particularly insidious about HR 36 is that its eugenic exceptions are prefaced by dramatic assertions of preborn pain.  This makes the political calculation all the more contemptible

Out of the dankest clap-ridden cesspool of the Playboy Mansion’s grotto has crawled a dogma of conservative ideology. In this ideology, to refuse to celebrate the "journalism" of Charlie Hebdo is to suggest that its staff deserved to die. That, of course, is absurd. In addition to the Muslim killers, what really deserves to die is the liberal notion that free speech is guaranteed by unfettered obscenity.

Americans, especially conservatives, have embraced the “America Is an Idea” ideology, and now Americans are paying for it.

Christian women are being raped and murdered, Christian men are being shot execution-style or strangled or crucified. And now we have reports of Christian children—it rends the soul to say—beheaded and set on display in public parks. This is Mosul in the summer of ’14, under the control of ISIS, the Islamic State, whose rise to power was set in motion by the lies of neoconservatives.

Soccer is a life-draining, coma-inducing, globalization friendly event, and watching it amounts to going to the gym to look at skinny men doing cardio and feigning injury.

Thinking of Obama, Bush II, Chinese Walmart slaves, the myth of the "invisible hand," and the "jobs Americans won't do," I stumbled upon this, from The Idler.

In which I review the blockbuster movie NOAH, without directly examining the film in the review, even though I have in fact seen it.

First came the whirlwind Pussy Riot American tour. And now the Boobish Invasion continues, with Eastern European “topless sextremists” known as Femen threatening to descend on the United States like a Satanic Swedish Bikini Team. (NSFW)

In the Dead West, our heroes are no longer cowboys but those creepy weirdos who slink around the alleyways of red-light districts. One such warrior for righteousness is described by the Associated Press as “Vladimir Luxuria, a former Communist lawmaker in the Italian parliament who has become a prominent transgender rights crusader and television personality.”

The dust had barely settled at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday when a barrage of lies began to fly from the usual suspects on the left. For once, the religion of the crazed shooter, Aaron Alexis, was not buried or ignored completely, since he was publicly connected not to Islam but to Buddhism.

Texas Republicans' stated rationale for the 20-week limit was that "the state has a compelling state interest in protecting the lives of unborn children from the stage at which substantial medical evidence indicates that these children are capable of feeling pain" (pdf). And that's hogwash, because the legislation makes a barbaric exception when it comes to unborn children with "a severe fetal abnormality."

You'd think Putin had constructed a gas chamber on the edge of Olympik Village in Sochi, but the reality is much less shocking.

The surprise and shock was not confined to the Japanese. This dawning of the nuclear age gave us new fears and changed our imaginations.

Miss Evans wants to teach our churches what they ought to be teaching. Are they prepared to teach her the Faith if she shows up?

In my recent piece "Hell-Bent," one of my overarching themes was that the rush to approve same-sex marriage was really about self-identified "heterosexuals" seeking approval for themselves. Legally sanctioned "gay marriage" is a kind of public proclamation that the constraints of traditional morality do not apply.

The national celebration of sodomy continues thanks to Sports Illustrated's new cover story featuring the first "major sport" athlete to come out of the closet while still an active player.

That stalwart set at National Review known as "The Editors" has done what it always does to a genuinely conservative display in the halls of power.

Getting some play today is a news story from Cranston, Rhode Island, about a ridiculous decision by the Cranston school board banning father-daughter dances. It's the old pattern.

A scrap of papyrus contains the phrase "Jesus said to them, 'My wife . . . '" before ending unceremoniously with a fibrous tear. And somehow, if the NYT and Harvard are to be believed, this changes everything. And it does—if by everything we mean nothing at all.

I'd be the last one to suggest that the Republican National Convention should be a bastion of Christian orthodoxy, and I'm sure no one goes there for the liturgy.

There are some real stunners in today's convoluted ruling from the Supremes regarding Arizona v. United States.

The intro to Justice Scalia's partial dissent in Arizona v. United States is a perfect demonstration of today's self-contradictory "conservatism."

You'da thought Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was Barack Obama, the way Rockford's local news media fawned over him on Sunday.

Allen Wilson writes in a comment that "We should give them a week's worth of food and transportation to the orchards and farms of those states where there are complaints that new immigration laws are scaring off Mexican workers."

With the threat of a second, unfettered term for President BHO looming, one begins to wonder what sort of legacy he would try to cobble together.

The news media love you and have a wonderful plan for your life, to borrow a phrase.

The New York Times has delivered the unshocking news: "White births are no longer a majority in the United States."

Yes, yes, curse the defensive genius and pedophile* Jerry Sandusky (author of Touched) and Joe Pa (who continued to employ him). But what about the grad assistant who happened to lock eyes with ol' Sandusky when the latter was sodomizing a ten-year-old boy in the Happy Valley showers of Penn State?

September 2 is the 38th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien (1973).

Soccer is (bad) theater.