This is madness for a media struggling to survive: Drudge is reporting that ABC will push President Obama’s health care plan from the White House without presenting opposing views. From the story:On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming . . . . Continue Reading »
David Letterman’s sexually offensive jokes about Sarah Palin’s daughters (and herself) were distinctly bereft of class. Sarah Palin’s immediate acceptance of his apology was, on the other hand, quite classy. (Of course, Letterman didn’t apologize for the line comparing her . . . . Continue Reading »
to practice chastity . Rock stars are getting in on the act as well. . . . . Continue Reading »
You’re right , Wesley. “Wrongful birth” lawsuits truly are pernicious. Suing because a baby was not aborted is a sick perversion of justice. But sadly, reproductive technology is making this kind of injustice an everyday occurence: A mother desperate to have a second child has . . . . Continue Reading »
Not sure how I missed this. Last month, the Boston Globe profiled several women in the archdiocese of Boston who have recently responded to one of the church’s oldest and perhaps most obscure vocations: consecrated virginity . . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I like the Iranian reformers more than I like the mass politics of solidarity by symbolism. 2. Imitating the right things for a people to say or do does not make those things the right ones for a President to do. 3. If Iran really has imported 5,000 Hezbollah enforcers, a more robust official US . . . . Continue Reading »
The immortality project took a body blow today as the AMA came out in opposition to the use of anti-aging hormones. From the story:The American Medical Association says there’s no scientific proof to back up the claims of anti-aging hormones. At their annual meeting in Chicago on Monday, AMA . . . . Continue Reading »
Cutting back on greenhouse gases isn’t enough anymore to stop global warming, says Jamais Cascio in the Wall Street Journal . He believes the only solution is to “think about cooling the planet” by using geoengineering. [W]hat geoengineering can do is slow the increase in . . . . Continue Reading »
A “wrongful birth” lawsuit has been filed in Oregon in which the child’s parents are suing because a test failed to reveal that their baby has Down, which had they known, would have resulted in abortion. As I state in my post about this at Secondhand Smoke : This is not the . . . . Continue Reading »
An Oregon couple is suing because a test missed that the child had Down syndrome, which had they known, would have resulted in their child’s abortion. From the story:In the months before their daughter was born in 2007, Deborah and Ariel Levy worried the baby might have Down syndrome. . . . . Continue Reading »
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