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Bad Writing: The Noah Bomber

Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic Noah should really have opened in Washington and Colorado, where it’s legal to smoke the only stuff that could make the movie bearable.  In fact, theaters in those...

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Bad Writing: Legalize Drugs — I Own Myself

Across the country, states are examining whether marijuana ought to be decriminalized—and with excellent reason: The “Drug War” has proven as costly a failure as Prohibition, and the number of...

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Bad Writing: Self-Ownership Kills Babies

Last week one of us used the drug war as a launching pad for examining the theory of self-ownership, the radical libertarian principle which asserts that none of us owes anything to anyone, unless we...

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Bad Religion: Can Catholics Still Criticize the UN?

The healthy human reaction whenever the United Nations says something is to ignore it, and hope that, like a singing drunk outside your window, it will simply go away. The normal Catholic’s reaction to...

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Bad Advice: Junkie America

This article was inspired by the controversy over long-time pro-life activist Austin Ruse’s recent article arguing that Catholics should not seek to outlaw contraception.Imagine if a large majority of...

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Bad Writing: Our Hot, Sexy Culture's Burn Ward: "Gimme Shelter"

There I was, sitting at the brass-railed open bar with a posh knot of gents in blazers and bowties, jawboning the culture wars. By the third Tanqueray and tonic, a warm haze of nostalgia had swept me...

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Bad Writing: "Bad Words": The Best Pedophile Film of 2014

When I went to see Jason Bateman’s new comedy “Bad Words,” I expected a rollicking, profane, irreverent romp.I knew the premise from reading reviews: A cranky, child-hating 40-year-old who found a...

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Bad Writing: On July 28, 1914, the West Committed Suicide

We all love the stories about Sherlock Holmes. We enjoy the masterful storytelling and vivid characters, and the ingenious plots that only Holmes’s razor-sharp mind can untangle. But there’s another...

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Bad Religion: The Myth of Catholic Social Teaching

Self-styled Catholic critics of the free market and “Americanism” have adopted the term “social Magisterium” to suggest that there is a coherent and morally binding body of papal teaching on politics...

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Bad Advice: PBS Canonizes Abortionist George Tiller

The executives at PBS surely realize that the niche they used to fill no longer exists, and that they must manufacture other reasons for congressmen to vote for their subsidies, and wealthy people to...

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