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Women’s Meeting

Roll Call has just reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked all female Democratic members of Congress “to attend a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning.” She hasn’t said what the meeting is about, but presumably it concerns passage of the health-care bill. At a . . . . Continue Reading »

New Grub Street

The Awl points out this interview with Tina Brown . At about 19:40, Brown asks: “Are we building this new sort of subculture frankly of impoverished, living in garret writers? Because the fact is writers can hardly make a living right now because they don’t get paid.” Leon . . . . Continue Reading »

WJS at UNIS: Speech Exerpt

Regular readers of SHS will recall that I was honored to be asked by the United Nations International School to lecture at a two day bioethics conference it held for about 700 students from all around the world.  My theme was the importance of intrinsic human dignity in bioethics.Part of the . . . . Continue Reading »

From the Archbishop of Jos

Readers moved by the news reported in today’s Rally for Nigeria may want to read the Zenit interview with the Catholic archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, Co-existence Turned Sour . At one point he explains that despite the persecution, many indigenous Christians are not leaving the north, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Face in the Apple?

Newsweek’s new issue is out, featuring more in the magazine’s ongoing love affair with the Obamas—this time a cover about Michelle Obama’s campaign against obesity. But what’s that in the reflection in the apple? A reader suggests its either Karl Marx or one of the . . . . Continue Reading »

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