Mark Judge

Conservative critics should stop complaining about the lack of media coverage of the Catholic protest of the government’s HHS mandate, which commands Catholic institutions to pay for health coverage of procedures that the Church finds evil. Traditional Catholics need to just accept the fact that to the liberal media, we have become a secondary, second-class group. We’ve become like blacks in 1950s America. (more)

Whenever I hear a lecture from The Washington Post about the importance of free debate, I think about Dawn Eden. Eden is a friend and a Catholic author who has just published an important new book, “My Peace I Give You: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse with the Help of the Saints.” She recently held two book signings in Washington, D.C. --- book signings that were not covered by The Washington Post. (more)

How can someone who writes compelling nonfiction be so terrible at fiction? I’ve just read the first few chapters of David Frum’s new novel, “Patriots.” It is bloody awful. It also defeats the purpose that Frum claims he intended for it, which was to write a novel that tells deeper truths than journalism. In fact it retreads ground Frum the journalist has gone over many times before, most notably his increasingly shrill belief that conservatives are nuts. (more)

It was quite a Sunday. I went from a book signing for my friend Dawn Eden, a brilliant Catholic writer and chastity advocate, to watching (on YouTube) as Dan Savage harangued a group of students about the “bullshit in the Bible.” Talk about the two Americas. (more)

I once had a dog that bit Scott “Wino” Weinrich. (more)

I’ve never been able to get over the crucial minutes of George Zimmerman’s encounter with Trayvon Martin. I’m not talking about the initial struggle, or even the fatal shooting. That’s where most of the media coverage has been, and for good reason. A life has been lost and it’s important to figure out exactly what happened. (more)

My white guilt died on Good Friday, April 6, 2012. That was the day my bike got stolen. (more)

Let’s address the most important fact first. (more)

Mark Andersen stood in front of the congregation and wept. (more)

I got played. Badly. (more)

When you’re in the middle of a war, you don’t hand your enemy an atomic bomb. (more)

Perhaps the greatest single piece of sociological, cultural and political legerdemain in the last 40 years has been liberals convincing the country that they have not moved left since John Kennedy’s death. Despite George McGovern, Roe v. Wade, the welfare state, gay marriage and now the Obama attack on religion, liberals have managed to present themselves as the voices of reason in a country gone crazily right wing. And the more liberals move left, the more hysterical their rhetoric about the right grows. At this point, anyone who claims that a balanced budget is good economics or that there are physiological differences between men and women is stamped a Nazi. (more)

Sarah Palin is a cool chick. (more)

Is “Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975” the coolest book ever published? (more)

The reporters and editors at The Washington Post don’t care about millions of dead babies. But they sure get worked up about a single dead cat. (more)

When the insufferable and dimwitted Juan Williams attempted to use the race card against Newt Gingrich during Monday night’s South Carolina Republican debate, Newt microwaved him. Gingrich said that there was nothing racially insensitive about wanting poor blacks to get jobs when they are young. It became an instantly iconic moment, a long-overdue pushback to mau-mauing liberals whose sharpest weapon is white guilt. (more)

What did Barack Obama do in college? (more)

Dan Savage, the gay sex-ed columnist, has become famous for creating a neologism based on the name of Rick Santorum. Here's Savage’s definition of “santorum”: “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.” For the past few years, the definition of "santorum" has popped up when people have googled former Senator Rick Santorum's name. When Santorum almost won the Iowa primary, Savage’s “Google bomb” got a second life. (more)

In 2008 David Koch, the well-known philanthropist and boogeyman on the left, donated $100 million to the New York City Opera. When I read that, I thought of an old friend of mine, Michael Rust. I worked with Michael at Insight magazine in the late 1990s. He died in 2002 at age 41. Michael was a brilliant and very funny man, and he and I once created, at least in our heads, an opera based on the rise of the conservative movement in the 20th century. We imagined the scenes showing the slow climb of the right (and yes, we saw the silly humor in the idea), culminating in a grand scene of William F. Buckley standing on top of a model of the National Review building in New York and driving all the anti-Semites and wackos out of the movement. The melodrama would be worthy of the melodrama of “Medea.” Then would come Reagan, played by Pavarotti. (more)

Which upcoming Abraham Lincoln movie will be more inaccurate: the one that depicts the 16th president as a vampire hunter, or Steven Spielberg’s liberal claptrap? It’s hard to say. Spielberg just started shooting in October, and the film won’t be released until next Christmas. But the screenwriter is Tony Kushner, which means you’d do well to stay away. “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” will most likely have more truth in it. (more)