Newly discovered documents reveal that Cardinal Cardinal John Henry Newman’s writings directly influenced Sophie Scholl, who was beheaded in 1943 for defying the Nazis: New documents unearthed by German academics have revealed that the writings of the 19th-century English theologian were a . . . . Continue Reading »
I should add “Cont’d,” since this is hardly the first, or last, instance of state courts’ deliberating on and dictating the meaning of marriage. Last Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously overturned the state’s existing law defining marriage as a union between one . . . . Continue Reading »
In yesterday’s Washington Post , Michael Kinsley said good riddance to traditional newsprint. Capitalism, he argues, is just doing its job, and we’ll be left with a leaner, meaner, more efficient news distribution system in the end: Capitalism is a “perennial gale of creative . . . . Continue Reading »
I will say it until I am blue in the face, and then I will keep saying it: Euthanasia guidelines are not really there to be followed and actually protect the vulnerable; they are there to give the illusion of control. Consider: In Belgium, which has Dutch-style euthanasia, an elderly woman wanted . . . . Continue Reading »
I will say it until I am blue in the face, and then I will keep saying it: Euthanasia guidelines are not really there to be followed and actually protect the vulnerable. They are there to give the illusion of control.Consider: In Belgium, which has Dutch-style euthanasia, an elderly woman wanted . . . . Continue Reading »
In my role as a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute, I sent a formal comment to the Department of Health and Human Services opposing its intent to revoke the Bush Conscience clause. Instead of revoking it, I urge that it be revised to prevent it from being relied . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times of London has a fair-minded and sobering article today on the troubling growth of stem-cell tourism: [Stem cells] are touted as little short of a miracle: inject them into brains to restore the cells lost to Parkinson’s disease; inject them into the spines of the paralysed to make . . . . Continue Reading »
What do you know, those cute little guys can count : Baby birds can do arithmetic, say researchers in Italy. Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks’ ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens. Lucia Regolin, an author of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Where is the institutional memory of the media? A truly good news story has come out about how last year we had fewer automobile accident deaths since the 1960s. There are many reasons for this, with the story focusing on high gas prices last year for reducing the miles driven. Increased seat belt . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society) has been mighty peeved lately that so many ethical doctors are refusing to supply assisted suicide prescriptions to their patients. As I noted yesterday, Montana’s doctors are apparently refusing to cooperate with the suicide agenda, and so C . . . . Continue Reading »
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