The UN global warming bureaucrats in charge of the hysteria section never run out of imaginative horrors being caused—or coming soon—by (now stalled) global warming. In today’s edition, it’s a cause of prostitution! From the story:The effects of climate change . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a symposium this week in the National Review centering around the question: Is conservatism a branch of liberalism? I confess the way the question was phrased got my back up a bit. It made me think liberalism was akin to the company with whom I have an account (Wachovia), wheras the . . . . Continue Reading »
We have become a culture that tells the elderly, people with disabilities, and others who need care and support that they are “burdens.” Indeed, in my recent debate in Edinburgh with Dr. Libby Wilson, my opponent explicitly supported legalizing assisted suicide so that the ill and . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently somebody hacked into climate change researchers’ e-mails and published the exchanges. From the story:Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s leading climate scientists over the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and . . . . Continue Reading »
Australian publication Investigate and the Australian Herald-Sun are reporting that leaked e-mails expose a conspiracy to hide detrimental information from the public that argues against global warming: The internet is on fire this morning with confirmation computers at one of the world’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The Manhattan Declaration is a 4,732-word statement signed by a movement of Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders who are collaborating around moral issues of great concern. Its signers affirm the sanctity of human life, marriage as defined by the union of one man and one woman, and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Manhattan Declaration is a 4,732-word statement signed by a movement of Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders who are collaborating around moral issues of great concern. Its signers affirm the sanctity of human life, marriage as defined by the union of one man and one woman, and . . . . Continue Reading »
The more we use human body parts in medicine and products, the more stories like this are likely to take place:Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics. Four Peruvians were arrested on . . . . Continue Reading »
Townhall.com ought to be one of my favorite websites, but I rarely hit a link from my reader.Why?If I go there, I am assaulted by an aesthetic weapon of mass destruction.It is problem for a believer. Would a good God put Hugh Hewitt on a site with this design?“Yes,” we must say with . . . . Continue Reading »
In 1980 in the Christian Science Monitor coined the acronym NIMBY—Not In My Back Yard—to describe opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development close to them (Nimbies are people who oppose such developments). In America, Nimbies typically oppose subsidized housing, halfway . . . . Continue Reading »
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