Billionaire investor Warren Buffet has a plan for ending the federal budget deficit: I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection. Sounds like a good idea to . . . . Continue Reading »
Benedict XVI and the Future of the West , Standpoint (George Weigel) ‘Strict Separationism’ Runs Amok , National Review Online (William E. Simon Jr. & Matthew J. Franck) Mitt Romney’s religion appeals to Jews , Deseret News (Jamshid Ghazi Askar) In Israel, diggers unearth the . . . . Continue Reading »
Sign of the times of the day: Jindal signed House Bill 636 by Rep. Frank Hoffman, R-West Monroe, into law Wednesday in front of a crowd at the First Baptist Church of West Monroe. The law requires that signs be posted around abortion facilities and include pertinent information about a . . . . Continue Reading »
A British psychologist says that romance novels are influencing “a huge number of the issues that we see in our clinics and therapy rooms”: Blaming romance novels for unprotected sex, unwanted pregnancies, unrealistic sexual expectations and relationship breakdowns, author and . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend H. Tristram Engelhardt was one of the pioneers in the field that came to become to be known as bioethics. Over the years, he has been mining an intellectual vein of analysis that could be called libertarian bioethics, that is (in a nutshell), he believes that with the decline of . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at ISI’s blog, Jennifer Hooten ranks Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer as #3 on her Five Books Every American Should Read list. Her summary of the novel runs through themes discussed at this blog e.g. homelessness, social selves. Like The Moviegoer, Percy’s Love in the Ruins has the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a very good friend and relative going through harrowing health times. He sent me this poem, written by a teenager dying of cancer, and asked me to pass it on. Her dying wish is to have it read by as many people as possible. Here it is:SLOW DANCEHave you ever watched kids On a . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioethics founding father, Daniel Callahan, has long called for a reevaluation of our open-ended approach to medical innovation—a field that he worries has developed a “research imperative”—as a way to prevent a total blowout of health care costs. The idea in a very . . . . Continue Reading »
Moving forward on the adult stem cell front, a new study shows that human heart patients were helped significantly with an injection of adult stem cells in cases where no other treatment proved efficacious. From the Cyprus Times story:An injection of stem cells into the heartcould offer hope . . . . Continue Reading »
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