Sardonic Ex Curia

September 4, 2015

CathCon Daily - 9/4/2015

Kim Davis and Progressive Lawbreaking - Sean Davis, The Federalist

The Complicated Kim Davis Case - Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Kim Davis: Political Prisoner? Culture-War Martyr? - Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Obama Sends More Blood Money to Planned Parenthood Butchers - Matthew Clark, Red State

A Nation of Laws No More - Erick Erickson, Red State

Weaponizing Same-Sex Marriage - Matthew Kacsmaryk, Public Discourse

Will Progressives Require Doctors to Kill? - Wesley J. Smith, First Things

GOP Shouldn’t Expect Trump to Be a Good Loser - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

Freeman Dyson on Science and Poetry - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

307,000 Veterans May Have Died While Waiting for VA Benefits - Amber Smith, Daily Signal

ESPN Pulls Schilling for...Anti-Radical Muslim Tweet - Dave Urbanski, The Blaze

Walker Calls for ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ in...Clerk Case - Fred Lucas, The Blaze

The Failed Moral Argument for a "Living Wage" - Ryan McMaken, Mises

Slaying the Myths About Plastic Bags - David Henderson, Library of Econ and Liberty

Planned Parenthood Hearing to Take Place Next Week - Kate Scanlon, Daily Signal

Transgender Entitlement: The New Orthodoxy - David French, NRO

Catholicism Has Mass Appeal - Marge Fenelon, N.C. Register

September 3, 2015

CathCon Daily - 9/3/2015 (Extra)

U.S. Catholics Tolerant of Same-Sex Families...But - Tamara Audi, WSJ

To Gay Journalist Michelangelo Signorile - Michael Brown, The Stream

False Report Spurs Investigation into Officer's Death - AP, The Stream

New Theory into Mass Extinction - Liz Klimas, The Blaze

How the Islamic World was Forged - Raymond Ibrahim, Human Events

Bob Iosue Writes About Cutting College Costs - George Leef, NRO

Kim Davis's Conscientious Decision - R.R. Reno, First Things

Report Exaggerates Immigrant Welfare Use, Part 2 - Alex Nowrasteh, Cato

CathCon Daily - 9/3/2015

How to Write a NYT Op Ed - Ann Coulter, Human Events

Scott Walker and the Bubble - Pete Spiliakos, First Things

When Black Music Was Conservative - Howard Husock, City Journal

Protests at Missouri School Over Transgender Student - Kate Scanlon, Daily Signal

When Conscience Trumps Faith and God - Fr. Mark Pilon, The Catholic Thing

The Year the Administrative State Trembled - Joel Alicea, Public Discourse

School Bans Superhero Lunchboxes - Jonah Goldberg, NRO

Not Every Kid Thinks Gender is Malleable - David French, NRO

Anti-Gun Zealots Adopt Dangerous Tactic - Charles C.W. Cooke, NRO

What Does Prudence Demand? - Scott Yenor, Nomocracy

How Much Welfare Do Immigrants Use? - Steven Camarota, The Stream

Uber and Taxicab Collapse - Mark Perry, AEI

#Black Lives Matter Costs Black Lives - David French, NRO

Not all Kids Should "Transition" - David French, NRO

Time For The Right To Stop The School Fight - Rachel Lu, The Federalist

The Reproducibility Crisis - Robert Tracinski, The Federalist

Why Smart Politicians Say Dumb Things - Jason Brennan, Princeton University

September 2, 2015

CathCon Daily - 9/2/2015 (Extra)

Either the schools will continue to decline in quality until they become a de facto adjunct of the welfare system where children of the poor will be warehoused for twelve years, then dumped into society, ill-prepared, a more or less permanent underclass.

Or taxpayers will finally get fed up with an expensive system turning out an inferior product and demand that the public schools be opened to free-market competition, perhaps by a voucher system which would give poor parents the same freedom of choice of schools as the more affluent. Such a system might have its disadvantages, but you may be sure it would get the attention of the public-school bureaucracy. Why are GM cars getting better? Not because of increased government subsidies or higher salaries. Because of Toyota.- Walker Percy

Responses to Pope Francis’s Remarks - A Symposium, NRO