SHS Funnies

by Wesley J. Smith

My kind of furniture!A look into the future unless the bias . . . . Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2009 0

Born Alive Infant "Botched Abortion" Doctor Loses License

by Wesley J. Smith

I wrote yesterday about a terrible 2006 Florida case, in which an infant allegedly survived an attempted abortion only to be put in a medical waste bag by the owner of the clinic. The doctor didn’t show up in time—resulting in the live birth of a baby girl at 23 weeks. Well, today he . . . . Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2009 0

President Obama’s New "Regulatory Czar" a Believer in "Quality of Life" Health Care

by Wesley J. Smith

This could be bad. Cass R. Sunstein, just appointed by President Obama to be “regulatory czar,” is a big “quality of life” guy in determining the cost/benefit ratio of government regulations. This is the executive summary of a paper he wrote back in 2003 for the Joint Center . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0

First "Pharming" Drug Approved

by Wesley J. Smith

Dolly the sheep was cloned because the administrator Ian Wilmut, and the team that did the deed, hoped to create a herd of genetically altered sheep through cloning and inserting human genes that would result in the sheep producing milk containing properties that could be extracted and turned into . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0

Kevorkian Speech Shows US Flag with Swastika

by Wesley J. Smith

This says a lot that is wrong at our universities—where social outlaws are celebrated and given huge speaking fees—and with the murderer Jack Kevorkian. At his recent speech at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, he had an American flag behind him with the Swastika in the field of . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0

When Love Comes to Town

by Nathaniel Peters

Recently I’ve been discovering more of the Blues—chiefly in its incarnate form, B.B. King. In the late 1980s, U2 wrote “When Love Comes to Town” for King and played it with him multiple times on tour. The song tells a very Christian story of redemption within a typical blues . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0

Abortionist’s Licence Revoked

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

From an AP story out of Tampa, FL : The Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice in a botched abortion case in which a live baby was delivered, but ended up dead in a cardboard box. The board on Friday found Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique in . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0

“I Forgive You.”

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

From ABC News, a moving story of sin and forgiveness: Nearly half a century ago, in a very different America, Elwin Wilson and John Lewis met under a veil of violence and race-inspired hate. Wilson, a young, white, Southern man, attacked Lewis, a freedom rider for Martin Luther King, in the . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0

Here We Go Again: Italian Government Stops the Dehydration of Eluana Englaro

by Wesley J. Smith

We have discussed the case of Eluana Englaro, who has been unconscious since an auto accident in 1992. Her father won a court order to remove her feeding tube. But for awhile, all hospitals and nursing homes refuse to participate in her dehydration. Mr. Englaro then found a facility that would, but . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0

‘The Espresso is Italy’s Gift to the World’

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

At the Times Higher Education , Graham Farmelo offers an ode to espresso and, along the way, he gives his readers an enjoyable history lesson: The joy of the espresso, gastronomy’s magic bullet, is that it delivers the essence of the roasted coffee bean in all its subtle complexity without . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2009 0