Our former assistant editor Ryan T. Anderson writes in National Review Online that the solution to the marriage debate is not to privatize marriage because marriage is not just a religious issue. Instead, supporters of measures like Proposition 8 are looking to maintain marriage as the best, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Tell me we aren’t on the path to using human beings as mere produce: A UK bioethicist has called for using fetal organs from abortions in transplantation. From the story:Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be given to the desperately ill and ease the organ donor shortage, a leading . . . . Continue Reading »
The sense of entitlement is so thick, so embedded within the genome of the biotech research community, that apparently no matter the extent to which they are catered, it is never, ever enough. Only days after they got virtually all they claimed they wanted from President Obama, some scientists are . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve had a real growth spurt here at SHS. In the last month. We have gone from about 30,000 visits and 25,000 discreet visitors every thirty days to nearly 40,000 visits from about 31,000 visitors. And the last few days have had about 2000 visitors a day. We’re not the Daily Kos or . . . . Continue Reading »
Unlike Stephen Webb I quite like soccer (granted, I am a girly crypto-collectivist), but I think we can agree that rugby is a great, manly sport. Why else would The Art of Manliness offer a primer on it?: Rugby as it exists today is one of the most exciting contact sports in existence, a perfect . . . . Continue Reading »
I am applauded and criticized for my comments about President Obama’s rescission of the Bush “alternative method” executive order over at Belief Net—from the version of the criticism I posted on the First Things blog, which contained slightly different language than I put . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m finally getting around to reading President Obama’s stem cell speech. It contains the usual bromides about how we are in danger of falling behind in science, yadda, yadda, yadda. But it also seems oddly oxymoronic to me. First he said: I can also promise that we will never undertake . . . . Continue Reading »
This is from the “You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up” Department: A friend of mine who is studying in England ordered a book from the library. His order was canceled for the following reason: UNABLE TO FETCH BOOK KEPT ON TOP SHELF IN GALLERY. DUE TO NEW HEALTH & SAFETY MEASURES . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a paradox for Obama supporters: The first American president with personal roots in the developing world (Kenyan father, Indonesian stepfather, childhood residence in Indonesia) is doing more harm to the developing world than any American in history. This is clear from a just-released . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times’ editorial extolling the lifting the Bush stem cell funding policy—as it ignores the purely gratuitous trashing of the Bush order requiring funding for “alternative sources”—is the usual mix of ignorance and ideology that typifies its side’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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