Ferguson and Riots
We need to have a serious talk about Ferguson. But first we need to ignore the media. For months the conversation about Ferguson, Missouri has been less about Michael Brown and more about the...
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In the Washington Post, Paul Goldman and I write that the sexual assault scandal currently enveloping the University of Virginia opens the commonwealth’s taxpayers to potentially tens of millions of...
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The New Republic is Dead; Long Live The New Republic
I shall admit it freely. I am a huge fan of The New Republic. Of course, we’re talking about a publication that at one time had it’s editor charged with being a spy for the KGB during the Red Scare —...
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Machiavelli For Short Attention Spans
Josef Peiper, a Catholic philosopher of the mid-20th century, was asked to expound his ideas on love: What is the nature of love? On the other hand, we are inclined to feel from the start that the...
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My sister wasn’t aborted, but she could have been
I was only two years and two months old when my sister was born. But I remember the hospital visits. The NICU nurses called her “peanut” because she was itsy bitsy – just 1 pound and 14 ounces when she...
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The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land Is Under Threat
The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land covers Israel, the occupied territories in Judea and Samaria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. They are all under threat, and it is only a matter of time and...
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The Entire Episode With The Rolling Stone UVA Hoax Is Sad
There’s an old saying that goes “all opinions are valid” and there’s a lot of truth to it. In cases such as those with Jackie Coakley — the lady who brought the allegations to light — there’s not...
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NRO: The Problem of Safe Places
Does such a thing as a “safe space” exist? We’d like to think so — home, church, a favorite restaurant, libraries or public meetings, the arms of a loved one. The idea that one’s home is one’s castle...
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Doris Buffett Grants $2 Million to Germanna
Today’s Culpeper Star-Exponent highlights what is perhaps one of the best investments one could possibly make in Virginia right now, all courtesy of Fredericksburg philanthropist Doris Buffett: The new...
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Bacon’s Rebellion: Why Does London Have So Many Parks?
The inestimable Jim Bacon over at Bacon’s Rebellion asks a question that has bothered me from the advent of the suburbanization of the Fredericksburg area to the present day. How come there’s no...
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Lingamfelter: Champions vs. Leaders
I’ve been thinking… Hillary Clinton says people need a “champion”. No Mrs. Clinton, the people need a “leader”. For those of you who have followed me on Facebook, you know that I have said a number of...
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Social Conservatism Is Conservatism
“The twentieth century conservative is concerned, first of all, with the regeneration of the spirit and character — with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the...
View Article…And Without Social Conservatism, It Is Merely Two Drunks Arguing Over A Bar...
So the inestimable Mr. McGuire has responded to the response to the initial post that kicked off the ball. Truth be told, in summation we are not terribly far off: Just so we’re clear, I’m not asking...
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Charlottesville Central Library Pushes Kiddie Sex and Abortion
In the shadow of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, a spiritual sickness flourishes. Courtesy of the Jefferson Madison Regional Library (JMRL) system and the Charlottesville National Organization for...
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Baltimore – Liberal leadership on display
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, elected Mayor of Baltimore with 87% of the vote. Yes, Baltimore could only muster 13% of the vote for the Republican candidate. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, when faced with...
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Thankful my mother gave me an “unfair advantage”
“If I could hear, my mother pray again, if I could hear, her tender voice as then. How glad I’d be, would mean so much to me, if I could hear my mother, pray again.”- Old Gospel Hymn “If I Could Hear...
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On Fear and Self-Reliance
Stephen Brodie Tucker once again defies the reputation of Virginia Right! and delivers a phenomenal critique of what ails the modern age: We have lost our self-reliance and because of this are...
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Why Politics Often Requires The “No A-Hole Rule”
Interesting piece out of The Atlantic’s June 2015 issue that talks about the merits — I’ll refrain from using the word virtue — of being a… well… you know… We have some well-worn aphorisms to steer us...
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Your Thirty Seven Minutes of Civilization
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… Claude Debussy’s Prelude Book 1. Which ideally goes great for rainy weather (like what we had last week), which is why I give it to you on a rather glorious Sunday...
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Scapegoating Symbols Will Not Resolve Racial America
Longtime readers of Bearing Drift know that I have neither love nor disdain for the Confederate Flag. I am the very definition of ambivalent, and frankly don’t enjoy discussing the history of a war...
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