Perhaps embarrassed at becoming Jack Kevorkian as a country, where people fly in from all over the world to participate in “suicide tourism,” the Swiss in the Zurich area will have a chance to rein in their currently out-of-control assisted suicide free for all. From an ERGO (Derek . . . . Continue Reading »
What would happen if literary geniuses were interviewed by academic search committees? The summaries might look something like this : Name of applicant: Austen, Jane At times a charming candidate, but too coy to fit into our department of women’s studies. A bit too pleased with herself, . . . . Continue Reading »
Thousands of women in labor have been forced to give birth outside of safe hospital settings because of hospital overcrowding in the UK. This seems highly relevant, given the forceful defense mounted of the NHS in the Obamacare debate. More details over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »
Nat Hentoff is a First Amendment absolutist. In his column today, he comes to the defense of the grass roots who have come out at the town halls to challenge Obamacare, and who are so scorned by the MSM. From his column:Startlingly and wholly involuntarily President Obama . . . . Continue Reading »
After a fifteeen-month battle with brain cancer, Senator Edward Kennedy died today at the age of seventy-seven. As one of the most influential liberal senators of all time, he was often viewed as the archenemy of conservatives. On a personal level, though, Kennedy’s warmth and charm would . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Zeitlin should be less surprised by the final sentence of his post (link not suitable for children): Im not familiar enough with the safe-sex corpus to really comment on it authoritatively, but in my own experience (health classes and so forth), the near-obsessive focus on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Right now I’m in FT contributing writer Gary A. Anderson’s introductory Old Testament course at Notre Dame. Our homework for tomorrow includes detailed biblical criticism of Genesis 111. And this: . . . . Continue Reading »
I had a jaw-dropping moment the other week when UK officials lept to the NHS’s defense in an attempt to help Obamacare. Longtime readers of SHS know that I have been detailing the many travesties of health care in the UK—such as patients being forced to wait hours in . . . . Continue Reading »
The always thoughtful Professor Orin Kerr recently penned a post expressing his disagreement with “lawyers or bloggers” who maintain “that the Supreme Court should not rely on the doctrine of stare decisis .” As one of the more outspoken opponents of . . . . Continue Reading »