American suicide rates are increasing. From the story:The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The increase in the overall . . . . Continue Reading »
Some organ transplant doctors and ethicists continue their campaign to get the people to accept killing for organs. This time the scene is Australia. A transplant physician now says that brain death can’t be known, nor heart death. The answer, obviously, is to kill for organs. From the story: . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights types sometimes get so lost in their hyper romanticism about animals they lose touch with reality. This is happening now in Canada in the aftermath of a man killing a bear in self defense. The bear’s cubs subsequently were euthanized. From the story: A B.C. [British Columbia] man . . . . Continue Reading »
From today’s Independent : Gayle Williams worked with the poorest and most unfortunate of the children in Afghanistan, young boys and girls who had lost limbs to landmines and bombs. She was dedicated to her task of teaching them the basic skills needed to survive in a harsh and violent land. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a question for the logicians out there: How do you reconcile this : Climate change is happening faster than previously predicted according to a new World Wildlife Fund report. Bringing together some of the most recent scientific reports and data, “Climate change: faster, . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Royal reflects here on the limited importance of book-learning: [We should get rid of the idea that] a superficial understanding of sacred things is an advance over longstanding practices that directly confront the evils we find in ourselves and in a fallen world. On the very first page of . . . . Continue Reading »
A new law out of the Australian state of Victoria must be discussed. First, it permits abortion through the ninth month, meaning that viable babies are subject to being killed, which is to say it gets close to the land of infanticide. Second, it requires all doctors to either do abortions, or if . . . . Continue Reading »
The grieving parents of the late Daniel James, who became suicidal after becoming paralyzed from an injury sustained playing rugby, and who committed assisted suicide in Switzerland after being taken there by his parents for that purpose, have said that no one can judge their son. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
During an interview conducted in April 2007 but published in the Wilmington News-Journal for the first time yesterday, Joe Biden was asked how he reconciles his Catholic faith with his position on Roe v. Wade : It’s very difficult. I was raised as a Catholic, I’m a practicing Catholic, . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Oppenheimer at the Wall Street Journal mourns the death of the practice of real debate in America: It used to be that high-school and college debates mirrored, in a salutary way, political debates. In school, young men and women learned to research topics and then debate their rivals, using . . . . Continue Reading »
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