Uganda is apparently contemplating imposing the death penalty on gay people with HIV. Astonishing and brutally wrong, the imposition of a culture of death in that it uses killing as an acceptable answer to an issue of human suffering. From the story:The Ugandan legislation in its current form . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat digs himself in deeper on the matter of Tariq Ramadan. Yesterday I took exception to his appalling comparison between St. Paul and Ramadan, whose terrorist ties prompted the Department of Homeland security to refuse him a visa to take up a faculty appointment at Notre Dame. He had . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s some good adult stem cell news, that has been—as usual—underplayed in the media. Blood stem cells can be engineered to target the HIV virus. From the story:Their study, published Monday in the-peer reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, provides proof-of-principle — . . . . Continue Reading »
When I saw the headline— New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths —I assumed that social scientists were once again wasting taxpayer dollars doing research to confirm what we already know. But then I saw that it was from The Onion and realized that it was meant to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Touchstone recently posted the weekly newsletter from Father Patrick Reardon, Pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, IL, and a signer of The Manhattan Declaration. In the newsletter, Reardon addresses two of the specific concerns over the document: the articulation (or lack . . . . Continue Reading »
The subtitle of my upcoming book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy (taken from PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk’s most famous quote), is The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. That cost is both real and harmful, as evidenced by a story of important research on anthrax not being . . . . Continue Reading »
On his blog at the New York Times , Ross Douthat responds to David Goldman’s criticism: In a peculiar outburst, David Goldman of First Things (a.k.a. the pseudonymous blogger Spengler) accuses me of hoping that “Islam will save us from secularism,” and of “flirting . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Ballor has an intriguing post on “the relationship between the church’s approach to charity and the creation of the welfare state” as discussed in Lester DeKoster and Gerard Berghoef 1980 book, The Deacons Handbook: A Manual of Stewardship : DeKoster and Berghoef argue in . . . . Continue Reading »
I have long believed that the hysteria over global warming is an elitist-driven madness, but madness with a purpose. The end goal is rule by a scientocracy and drone bureaucracy that will gather power onto themselves, control the developed economies and lifestyles of individuals, as it stifles . . . . Continue Reading »
Rarely do Joe Carter and MAKE Magazine point me towards the same online curiosity . The intersection of topology and breakfast must have considerable ecumenical appeal. I’m going to turn Hart’s challenge around, however: now that you know how to create two interlocking bagel-halves by . . . . Continue Reading »
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