The reaction to President Obama’s speech to America’s schoolchildren has sparked a bizarre level of concern. Parental outrage over the address seems to be inversely proportional to the actual threat that his banal speech will produce socialist automatons. Perhaps conservative Americans . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest inhumane treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay is so excruciatingly torturous that it would make even Dick Cheney squirm: Detainees are being forced to read Barack Obama’s Dreams of My Father ! Okay, that’s not exactly true. Unlike American schoolchildren, the prisoners are . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked by the National Review to write a story for the magazine on the recent advances made by the assisted suicide movement. It is the cover story. From the article:The assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent . . . . Continue Reading »
He talks!—and talks, and talks: I was interviewed for the Derek Gilbert podcast recently about Obamacare, health care rationing, the danger of bioethics to the vulnerable, animal rights, and human exceptionalism. If anyone is interested, just hit this link. . . . . Continue Reading »
What makes a holiday a holiday? Or, what makes a holiday worthy of a celebratory logo on the world’s most popular website like Google? This question recently prompted me to talk with Michael Lopez, Google’s lead logo designer, to find an answer. September 19, for instance, is Rosh . . . . Continue Reading »
C-Span2 has a fascinating video interview with George Weigel , Catholic theologian and First Things board member. Weigel is the author of over a dozen books, including Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II . In the revealing interview, Weigel shares his preferred Bible translation . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Thursday at Wheaton, two members of the First Things family, board member Timothy George and contributor Francis Beckwith, debated the question, “ Can you be Catholic and Evangelical? ” A video of the debate can be found here . (Update: Broken link is now fixed) In “ . . . . Continue Reading »
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair recently spoke at Communion and Liberation’s annual meeting in Rimini: Faith enlarges and enriches the idea of community. The recent Papal Encyclical is a remarkable document in many respects. It repays reading and re-reading. But one strand throughout it, . . . . Continue Reading »
Rita Marker, head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, has an important piece out in the American Thinker revealing the assisted suicide advocates behind the notorious section 1233 end-of-life counseling provision of HB 3200. And, she reveals that a senate bill . . . . Continue Reading »
The brouhaha over end of life counseling that caused the first of many leaks that have begun to sink the Obamacare boat was written by an assisted suicide advocate Congressman from Oregon named Earl Blumenauer—working in close association, with—surprise, surprise!—the assisted . . . . Continue Reading »
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