Oh, what a tangled web did Obama weave, When first he “composited” Genevieve. Vanity Fair has published extracts from a forthcoming biography of Barack Obama featuring letters he sent one of his college girlfriends, Alex McNear, and journal entries written by Genevieve Cook, a girlfriend . . . . Continue Reading »
Professor Michael-Don’t Eat-Your-Peas-Marder as a teenager:One of Obama’s new “happiness bureaucrats” on the . . . . Continue Reading »
An Oregon jury recently ruled that a child born with Down syndrome was wrongfully born because her mother would have destroyed her had the prenatal testing been properly performed. Now, Bioedge reports about a similar case before the European Court of Law and Justice.Sigh. Our ability to . . . . Continue Reading »
In case you’ve missed it, this is happening: This afternoon, Georgetown announced the speakers for each school’s commencement address. Here is the list: [...] Former governor of Kansas and current secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, will be . . . . Continue Reading »
The social media website Squidoo has produced an info-graph about the most read books in the past fifty years. Who knows whether it’s better that more copies of Dan Brown were sold than copies of the Twilight Saga, but it’s encouraging to know that the Bible beat out the rest by over 3 . . . . Continue Reading »
This satirical video tells some important truths about the stealth animal rights front group, the Humane Society of the United States (not to be confused with your local animal welfare human societies). Funny—“We’re basically PETA, with suits and . . . . Continue Reading »
The darkness continues to spread in Switzerland. From the World Federation of Right to Die Societies:Following the initiative of 3 October 2009 launched by EXIT ADMD Suisse romande, a vote will be held in the Canton of Vaud on 17 June 2012, hoping to change existing Swiss law in such a way . . . . Continue Reading »
The New England Journal of Medicine is a major player, perhaps the major player, among the Medical Intelligentsia. Its editors really, really want health care rationing. After all, a rationing regimen gives the posse with which they ride a lot of power since technocratic regimes . . . . Continue Reading »
At Public Discourse , Mark Bauerlein argues that liberalism’s relativistic individualism has ruined the novel : Apart from the truth or politics of that statement, its consequences for the novel are certain. A good plot needs conflict, an unsettled situation whose outcome we care . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on the God who is worldly : Summarizing a central argument of his Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics , Ross Douthat told Ken Myers in a recent interview, “A lot of the most influential theologies in American life today are theologies that take various worldly . . . . Continue Reading »
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