FYI (and for your prayers): Evangel contributor David Wayne has been hospitalized again, this time due to complications from some medication he’s just begun for his cancer treatments. Details . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian philosopher and bioethicist, Margaret Somerville, has a splendid column out in the Ottawa Citizen on the importance of human exceptionalism and the need to reject animal personhood. Well worth the read. Here’s the link . . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian philosopher and bioethicist, Margaret Somerville, has a splendid column out in the Ottawa Citizen on the importance of human exceptionalism and the need to reject animal personhood. From her column:While I strongly endorse their goal of preventing cruelty to all sentient . . . . Continue Reading »
Our legislators are nuts, that’s the only explanation. California is impecunious. We’re dead broke. We are flat on our faces, so deeply in debt it seems we will never get out. In short, we have no money, our pockets are empty, we are one step ahead of the kneecap . . . . Continue Reading »
My son, Andrew, is seven, but he is a very good little reader. I may have mentioned before that in my despair at the amount of effort he was investing in reading about Pokemon, I put him on to Narnia. Since that time, I asked on this site and others for books I should encourage him to . . . . Continue Reading »
James Hanley has a post regarding abortion arguments over at Positive Liberty that is worth your time to read. It’s not that his position is anything out of the ordinary, but does allow the pro-life community to observe some of the distinctions that mark rational arguments and how they might . . . . Continue Reading »
The assisted suicide advocacy organization, Compassion and Choices, clearly opposes the right of medical professionals to refuse to participate—or be complicit in—the intentional taking of human life. This issue is going to be one of the biggest in bioethics in the coming decade, . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan and I don’t agree on much, but we share a disgust for torture and the abuse of prisoners. I admire this about him and believe he has the potential to be a powerful and influential voice in the defense of human dignity. So it is unfortunate that he undercuts his own credibility . . . . Continue Reading »
Asia Times Online today has a disturbing report on Iranian efforts to hijack the electoral process in Iraq:The kerfuffle triggered in Iraq by a government panel’s recent disqualification of over 500 candidates from the parliamentary elections in March has engendered a new crisis that threatens . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Examiner reported today, as noted here, that Obamacare is officially dead. Other news outlets have merely said it is is dying, with life support soon to be removed. Whichever it is, the people clearly want to go in a different direction.As an illustration, Gallup has a . . . . Continue Reading »
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