David:Michael New, a political scientist specializing in abortion statistics, explains why T.R. Reid’s “analysis is superficial and unconvincing.”Ramesh Ponnuru calls Reid’s op-ed “absurd,” says that Professor New’s critique is “too kind,” and . . . . Continue Reading »
With Louisiana’s Joseph Cao’s return to the fold, it now seems guaranteed that all the 178 Republicans in the House will vote against the Senate’s version of the health-care bill, even with some method (legal or not) invented to try to ensure reconciliation. Which means that the . . . . Continue Reading »
In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89—and I’m leaving out the son whose age wasn’t identified, but whose 94-year-old father died as a passenger. These . . . . Continue Reading »
This is just sort of an excursis, given the progress of my discussion with Dr. John Mark Reynolds. As I was reading today here at Evangel about this and that, the point about abortion seemed to be very well made by Dr. Beckwith in the comments — and good on him for getting it essentially . . . . Continue Reading »
We just got our Census form in the mail. Well, it’s not the census form, it’s the warm-up census form, telling us that we’re going to get the census form shortly and to look forward to it. We have a week to get all excited before the main event (guess this is what the Department of . . . . Continue Reading »
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput discusses Catholics, health care, and the ” Senate’s bad bill ”: Groups, trade associations, and publications describing themselves as “Catholic” or “prolife” that endorse the Senate version—whatever their intentions—are . . . . Continue Reading »
For years, we heard that if only the Bush funding restrictions were removed, ESCR would quickly demonstrate its promise of curing the multitudes. Well, it’s been a year since the Bush executive order was revoked. But are “the scientists” happy? Not on a bet. From . . . . Continue Reading »
The cold-war comedy, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming , won a Golden Globe in 1967. But when a television station in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia recently broadcast a mock report about a Russian invasion, the people weren’t amused : A television station in Georgia . . . . Continue Reading »
A new survey of primary and secondary school children in the UK gives Americans reasons not to feel too bad about the state of our own science education : Just under a half of boys (49%) correctly pinned down gravity as Newton’s ground-breaking discovery, compared with 76% of girls. Just over . . . . Continue Reading »
One more contribution to the health care debate in the United States introduces a surprising possibility: Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate. How so? Britain’s former Catholic archbishop, Basil Cardinal Hume explains:“If that frightened, unemployed 19-year-old knows . . . . Continue Reading »
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