From today’s Washington Post , more proof that television is anything but harmless to our children: Teenagers who watch a lot of television featuring flirting, necking, discussion of sex and sex scenes are much more likely than their peers to get pregnant or get a partner pregnant, according . . . . Continue Reading »
If you missed the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) this past weekend, you are most likely not aware that Prof. Wendy Doniger received an award. Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the University of Chicago Divinity School, . . . . Continue Reading »
Washington citizens didn’t clamor for assisted suicide in their state. They were minding their own business when it was brought to them by the international euthanasia movement, aided and abetted by their super rich former governor, Booth Gardner. Joel Connelly has some of the dollars spent, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have long held that much of the irrational hatred directed at Sarah Palin—not political opposition, but the hatred—is because she dared to knowingly give birth to a baby with Down syndrome. This suspicion is heightened by this disgusting blog entry by the Wonkette blog discussing a . . . . Continue Reading »
The media never tire of fawning stories about people who assist others in self destruction. The latest example of this journalistic groupieism comes out of the Vancouver Sun, in which a reporter goes to the home of an assisted suicide facilitator named Russell Ogden.From the story, byline Douglas . . . . Continue Reading »
This is very sad but I think it qualifies as a form of the profound anti-humanism that is running rampant in the world. A man in Japan wants to marry a cartoon and has started a petition drive to pressure the government to permit it. From the story: A Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in . . . . Continue Reading »
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the convictions of things not seen,” the Letter to the Hebrews tells us. I couldn’t help thinking of that today when I scanned the list of articles on Real Clear Politics . A piece in Roll Call ponders which notes the discrepancy . . . . Continue Reading »
In honor of today’s holiday—Reformation Day—I have been rereading Luther’s 95 Theses , which he nailed to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. A few of his theses, in particular, stood out this time around: 41. Apostolic pardons are to be preached with caution, . . . . Continue Reading »
Voting for Obama for sake of having a black president would be irresponsibly self-indulgent, but few would deny that there’s something moving in this story from Texas: Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after . . . . Continue Reading »
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