Worth reading, today, are these two pieces from the archives. “Strange beyond understanding,” is how Fr. Neuhaus initially described September 11. Seven years later, that is no less true: September 11. This is written the day after, just under the deadline for this issue. For years to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Alliance Defense Fund, which helped save Jesse Ramirez’s life, has won another one, at least for now. From its press release: On May 16, the patient’s husband filed the suit P.C. v. K. against the hospital and a doctor in order to keep the medical staff from removing his wife’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Frightening setbacks in the battle against reducing abortions: Canadian doctor warns Sarah Palin’s decision to have Down baby could reduce abortions . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I said that politics was a practical affair, for which people with ordinary practical experience were usually better qualified than theoreticians. The upshot was that Sarah Palin’s past as a mother and PTA member was nothing to sniff at. This Mail Online article on the PTA suggests . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an awful story, but I think it is relevant to the underlying cultural struggle about people with disabilities reflected in the brouhaha set off by the Palins’ embrace of their son, Trig. In the UK, a mother is charged with murdering her 4-year-old daughter because she was . . . . Continue Reading »
This story was brought to my attention by “greg” in the comments to a previous post, which I appreciate, and I comment about here because it is worth more prominent notice: A Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper) story reports that Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the law professors’ blog, the Volokh Conspiracy , they’re discussing the question of why political donations from lawyers are running so strongly in favor of Obama. One commentator offers this explanation, “Could it be that most highly educated people agree with Obama, are . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday we read Yuval Levin fault Sen. Biden for conflating theology with biology when it comes to the morality of abortion and the beginning of human life. GetReligon ‘s Mollie, however, also criticizes Tom Brokaw for missing the opportunity to talk about Biden’s faith in a more . . . . Continue Reading »
Sally Quinn—and what made the Washington Post imagine this gossip columnist was an expert on American religion?— points out the hypocrisy of conservative Protestants both promoting male headship and cheering for Sarah Palin. To which Helen Rittelmeyer replies the answer is easy: Sarah . . . . Continue Reading »
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