Investor’s Business Daily opines that Proposition 71 has been a failure. From its editorial:California’s Proposition 71 was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, empowered to go where the NIH could not — either because of . . . . Continue Reading »
“Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era,” says Mark McGwire, admitting at last what everyone already knew—that he drugged himself silly in the era of his greatest success in baseball. Over at the Washington Post , Tracee Hamilton has the right response : The . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest report from the Red Cross is that the devastating earthquake in Haiti has left an estimated 3 million people in need of emergency aid. The aid organization says Haiti’s disaster relief teams were “completely overwhelmed.” If you would like to help, the American Red . . . . Continue Reading »
I have an article on the modern university in the upcoming Fall 2009/Winter 2010 issue of The New Atlantis which also includes a piece by our own Peter Lawler. Below is a short excerpt: This tension can also be seen in the description Jefferson gives of the natural “moral . . . . Continue Reading »
Ok, so I rarely post over here. Sorry. But I figure the least I can do is cross-post once in awhile from my “real” blog. So here goes.*****Let me start with the caveats. Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The battle over embryonic stem cell research is over. A few skirmishes will no doubt continue—perhaps even for years—and some ESCR advocates will refuse to acknowledge defeat. But they have decisively lost. Years from now, when we look back in astonishment at having been fleeced for . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study finds that the Golden Girls marathon you’ve been watching on Nick at Nite may prevent you from reaching your own golden years. According to the Wall Street Journal, television is killing us: In a provocative look at the impact of sedentary behavior on health, a new study links . . . . Continue Reading »
As a lawyer, I am increasingly alarmed by how the emotional narrative subsumes what should be hard law and fixed principle. Our example today: A judge ruled that the killer of George Tiller—he is not yet adjudged a murderer, but admits the shooting—shall be allowed to defend . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s about “the science,” global warming non-deniers tell us repeatedly about the supposed crisis. But you know it is really about “the politics” when they bring out “the children” to sell . . . . Continue Reading »
My new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement is at the printer and will be available in early February (with a good discount at Amazon), a few weeks later than expected, but what else is new in publishing? This is the final cover.I admit to being . . . . Continue Reading »
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