Month: November 2017
Wednesday, 11/15/17
Tuesday, 11/14/17
From my Twitter feed
You don’t need to believe in God to have good values individually. A society that shuns God is a different story. https://t.co/GSocTbQlui
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 13, 2017
I’m strongly inclined to agree with Shapiro on that.
By analogy, I am pretty confident it’s possible for a couple to, say, marry before one of them is through college, practice contraception to allow that one the best chance to finish college on time, and not buy into the culture of death by so doing. But if Rome is right on this (which I often wonder), they’re still doing a bad thing, and they’re probably creating cognitive dissonance should they wish later to criticize “the contraceptive mentality.”
A society that decides that contraception should make every child Planned® is a different story.
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An interesting question is what the polls would look like if Roy Moore had immediately confessed, begged forgiveness, and placed himself in the hands of voters.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 13, 2017
“Before I was married I was a sinner and a creep. I beg the young woman’s forgiveness. It was decades ago, and I ask you to judge me on the good husband and father and grandfather I’ve become.” Etc.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 13, 2017
I think he’s burned that bridge, but I am regularly amazed at people’s credulity and partisan flip-flopping.
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One thing Roy Moore reax proves: @roddreher totally correct in his #BenOp book to place no hope for Xian cons in the old religious right.
— Niall Gooch (@niall_gooch) November 13, 2017
Let me translate:
One thing the Roy Moore reaction proves: Rod Dreher is totally correct in his Benedict Option book to place no hope for Christian conservatives in the old Religious Right.
He’s got that right. If they’re not uniformly corrupt, politically and morally compromised, the old Religious Right is too full of metastatic corruption and compromise to even hold out hope for them.
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The world according to Pedobart:
Convincing 14-year-old to undress and touch you when you’re a 32-year-old deputy DA: let’s reserve judgment
Convincing the former 14-year-old to talk about it years later: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
— Customary Popehat Behavior (@Popehat) November 13, 2017
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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)
There is no epistemological Switzerland. (Via Mars Hill Audio Journal Volume 134)
Monday, 11/13/17
St. John the Almsgiver, 2017
Saturday of an eventful week
More Moore
Having read the detailed description of the incidents, as well as the response from Judge Moore and his campaign, I can no longer endorse his candidacy for the US Senate.
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) November 10, 2017
Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections. I believe Leigh Corfman. Her account is too serious to ignore. Moore is unfit for office and should step aside.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) November 10, 2017
Basically the pro-Moore Right is offering a spectacularly disgraceful lesson in the logical fallacy that C.S. Lewis called “Bulverism”
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) November 11, 2017
#RoyMooreDenials I vehemently deny ever using poor-quality wine to ply a teenager
— Customary Popehat Behavior (@Popehat) November 11, 2017
Alabama Republican Roy Moore to Hannity: “I don’t remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother.”
— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) November 10, 2017
The testimony of a percipient witness is evidence. You may have a special personal definition of evidence that excludes eyewitness testimony. Your definition is wrong and you are dumb.
— Customary Popehat Behavior (@Popehat) November 10, 2017
A bit weary of people saying “I now see that Romney wasn’t a misogynist Nazi and that Bill Clinton was a predator.” Retroactive nonpartisanship is low-cost. Real-time nonpartisanship is hard.
— Adrian Vermeule (@avermeule) November 10, 2017
Think about this: It’s more likely than not that two of our last four presidents have committed sexual assault. https://t.co/dJVuQGL3Of
— David French (@DavidAFrench) November 10, 2017
In 24 hours, Roy Moore has gone from “fake news and intentional defamation” to “out of my customary behaviour” and “not generally.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 10, 2017
“Leather Cowboy Fetish” of Alabama province senator Roy Moore is said to be completely normal amongst US men, and not indicative of perversions. pic.twitter.com/u3EDniAive
— DPRK News Service [OFFICIAL AND AUTHORIZED] (@DPRK_News) November 10, 2017
Back in the day, Cardinal Law said the Globe was just out to get the Church. Now Alabama GOPers & fellow travelers are repurposing that strategy. https://t.co/LAUe0Uds2Y
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) November 10, 2017
Hannity asked Moore if he dated teenagers when he was in his 30s:
Moore:”It would’ve been out of my customary behavior”
— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) November 10, 2017
The sexual revolution just isn’t working out like the boomers said it would.
— barton swaim (@bartonswaim) November 10, 2017
Will Evangelicals show themselves wicked and condemnable, as has David Horowitz?
If a tribe can’t condemn wicked acts from within, the risk level is high that it’s a wicked and condemnable tribe.
— C. C. Pecknold (@ccpecknold) November 11, 2017
In my view Moore is guilty as accused. But 1) it happened 30 years ago, & 2) he can’t be removed from the ballot, & 3) electing a Dem strengthens a party that defends these criminals: Obama, the Clintons, Holder, Lynch, Abedin, Cheryl Mills etc. &their crimes are far far worse
— David Horowitz (@horowitz39) November 10, 2017
I’ve been wanting to get this off my chest for a while. Evangelicals are trusting in bad men over a holy God. A reckoning will come: https://t.co/HQ8prNQDRU
— David French (@DavidAFrench) November 10, 2017
“If we have to support pedophilia to finally teach you coastal elites a lesson about respecting our values, so be it” https://t.co/HBpOAwIlk7
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 10, 2017
It’s gut-wrenching how many people would sooner believe a conspiracy theory than multiple women with nothing to gain. https://t.co/cSyICteER1
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) November 10, 2017
The gears of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding fine.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 10, 2017
Roy Moore
Conservatives, be careful. Don’t dismiss the claims. While I don’t know if the allegations are true, I’m deeply troubled on a number of grounds.
First, these women didn’t seek out the press …
Second, if you read the report, it includes validation from a number of witnesses who say that they were aware of the relationships at the time …
Third, the youngest accuser’s explanation for her decision not to come forward earlier rings tragically true …
While there is a danger of a witch hunt, the presence of multiple claims of misconduct from multiple sources should always make us pause — regardless of whether the alleged abuser comes from the Left or the Right. It’s a moral imperative that we not determine the veracity of the allegations by the ideology of the accused.
Roy Moore is a dangerous man who never should have received the GOP nomination. Republican primary voters selected as their champion a person who seeks to suppress the civil rights of his fellow citizens and defies the law whenever it suits his ideological and political purposes. Even before today’s allegations, he was unfit to be a United States senator. Now the question is whether he’s dangerous, unfit, and vile.
(David French, National Review)
This is the second damaging revelation about Moore since he won the Republican nomination in the special election to replace Jeff Sessions. The other is that he took a secret $180,000 annual salary for a part-time gig at a charity, despite his denials. There is no doubt that the media and the Democrats are gunning for Moore; there is also, now, no doubt that there is plenty of material for them to mine, beyond his kooky views and ignorance of the law.
The statute of limitations on Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct long ago expired, but there is no such thing as a statute of limitations on standards. Roy Moore is not a worthy standard-bearer for the Republican party, and his vulnerabilities are now endangering what should be a completely safe Senate seat.
(Unsigned National Review Editorial calling on Moore to withdraw)
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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)
There is no epistemological Switzerland. (Via Mars Hill Audio Journal Volume 134)
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 