Given the state of the world’s economy, perhaps the time has come to rein in the funding of stupid scientific studies to ensure that they are limited to really important matters. I bring this up because some scientists claim that the pill has changed women’s taste in men away from . . . . Continue Reading »
Heard more than your fill on the subject of Roman Polanski these days? You’ll find today’s On the Square article a fine digestif; Carson Holloway breaks down the issues underneath the pop controversy: The embrace of sexual liberation necessarily diminishes our horror for rape, and . . . . Continue Reading »
A team of family scholars recently launched a U.S. Marriage Index , the first attempt to track the health of marriage in America. The report begins by asking: “What helps us the most to thrive, as individuals and as a society? Money or marriage? Assets or relationships? Here’s what we . . . . Continue Reading »
The front page Washington Post headline isn’t sensational; it merely reads ” Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Mission .” But one can hardly imagine a more damning indictment of President Obama and certain unnamed “senior administration . . . . Continue Reading »
Senator Baucus’s proposal for health care reform passed muster from the CBO. From the story:A compromise health care proposal widely seen as having the best chance to win Democratic and Republican support would cost $829 billion over the next 10 years, nonpartisan budget analysts concluded . . . . Continue Reading »
In the combox for my last post, I mentioned that my children have begun planning not so much their Halloween costumes as their saint-characters for the All Saints bash at church. That is to say, the girls have it all worked out. The teenager spent much of yesterday afternoon paging through Rosa . . . . Continue Reading »
Hunter’s excellent post on social conservatives, libertarians, and Aristotle gives me an excuse to link to an essay by a more recent thinker—the late, great Russell Kirk. In the fall of 1981, during the earliest days of the Reagan years, Kirk published the greatest political essay on . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, I posted excerpts from a piece I wrote for CNS News about the drive among some within the Medical Intelligentsia to redefine death so as to permit increased organ harvesting. It went up, and then, mysteriously disappeared. I have been asked about this repeatedly, and some . . . . Continue Reading »
The usual suspects have filed a lawsuit to interpret Connecticut’s anti assisted suicide law as permitting “aid in dying.” Under this theory, terminally ill patients can’t commit suicide because they would want to live, but for their disease. So, when a doctor prescribes . . . . Continue Reading »
The assisted suicide movement doesn’t give a fig about consistency. If people attack legalized suicide, they pound the podium and assert that we must respect state’s rights. But when states refuse to legalize assisted suicide—as in Montana—they file lawsuits hoping an . . . . Continue Reading »
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