Good News For India....

Columnist David Warren (PTBC) updates us on the cost of the Group of Eight's target for CO2 reduction:

http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/index/writergroup/printer-friendly/8236/

"...a couple of techies at the Tokyo Institute of Technology .....sat down with their calculators, and coolly worked out what will be required to meet this goal, on an equal per capita basis, around the planet... "

The 'New' Atheists

Mark P. Shea at Inside Catholic writes an excellent summary of 'new atheist' reasoning (?): http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2546&pop=1&page=2&Itemid=121

TRUTH and TOLERANCE

Donald DeMarco on post-Christian 'tolerance':

"In today’s post-modern world, the notion that truth leads to freedom is regarded as narrowly Catholic and intolerant of other religious views. The new blueprint in the post-modern world is that tolerance, not truth, leads to freedom."

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0266.htm

AMERICAN YOUTH STAND UP

An example of who the 'youth of today' really are (h/t Inside Catholic).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRdM4NIeyRQ&eurl=http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1154&Itemid=10

Farewell Fidel

“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”

(John Derbyshire)

FAITH & POLITICS

The Canadian journal "C2C" has put out its third e-issue, with a very well done article discussing the relationship between religion and politics, written by John von Heyking.
http://www.c2cjournal.ca/public/articles/36

For Our Edification...

An essay on 'genius' and a clip of Toscanini conducting.

http://catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0258.htm