So I’m now getting around to writing an essay on Locke and Darwin. Here’s a taste pretty relevant to various recent POSTMODERN and CONSERVATIVE posts: Darwin himself had a naïve faith in the almost inevitable natural evolution of the “moral sense” of members of our . . . . Continue Reading »
For years we have been nagged into getting screened for colon cancer, screened for breast cancer, screened for prostate cancer, screened, screened, screened. It made sense. Catch cancer early, and your chances of survival dramatically improve.Funny, how things change—or perhaps . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been thinking a lot about the way we sell church-related goods and services.I have been thinking about that and about Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers and sacrificial animal sellers in the temple.The marketing inside the church has probably never been more feverish than it . . . . Continue Reading »
The best way to get web hits is to say something loudly.Our discourse is often as subtle as a teenager with a stuck caps key. We don’t just oppose the President’s agenda, but WE STAND AT ARMAGEDDON AND WE BATTLE FOR THE LORD.While that last line got Teddy Roosevelt some cheers, and T.R. . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama is just returning from China having gently mentioned to the butchers of Beijing that human rights are important. The witness for human dignity will continue in China, but it will not be the soft approach of kowtowing to dictators while speaking softly to them.How do we know?The . . . . Continue Reading »
I never believed the Chinese Government’s assurances that they were going to dismantle the organ trade in their country. And now, it seems that the supposed effort has predictably failed. From the story:Organ trafficking in China is more active than ever despite efforts to crack down on . . . . Continue Reading »
The UN global warming bureaucrats in charge of the hysteria section never run out of imaginative horrors being caused—or coming soon—by (now stalled) global warming. In today’s edition, it’s a cause of prostitution! From the story:The effects of climate change . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a symposium this week in the National Review centering around the question: Is conservatism a branch of liberalism? I confess the way the question was phrased got my back up a bit. It made me think liberalism was akin to the company with whom I have an account (Wachovia), wheras the . . . . Continue Reading »
We have become a culture that tells the elderly, people with disabilities, and others who need care and support that they are “burdens.” Indeed, in my recent debate in Edinburgh with Dr. Libby Wilson, my opponent explicitly supported legalizing assisted suicide so that the ill and . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently somebody hacked into climate change researchers’ e-mails and published the exchanges. From the story:Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s leading climate scientists over the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and . . . . Continue Reading »
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