Now that the assisted suicide movement believes it has some winds in its sails, its pretense of being reasonable and measured is collapsing under the ideological zeal that drives the movement. Case in point: The head of Compassion and Choices, Barbara Coombs Lee, has written an outrageous . . . . Continue Reading »
Pure madness. Beyond madness, reckless irresponsibility.Let’s say you want to expand access to insurance—which I believe is a laudable goal. There are very simple ways to do it, without euthanizing a system that for most people is working very well. You could expand . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a very thoughtful brief essay that features both Tom Wolfe and ME. It’s fairly pessimistic—but still postmodern conservative—because its nostalgia is not for porches and goats but for pilots and astronauts—the members of the Greatest Generation. Those men . . . . Continue Reading »
Taking forty-five years to finish a book project that almost no one will read in its entirety may seem . . . I don’t know, what’s a good word for disheartening? But Oxford University has been around for 913 years, which gives the school the patience to spend half a decade completing the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Anglican bishop of Chelmsford has advised that holy water be removed from churches in his diocese in an effort to stop to spread of swine flu. And I thought a little water might help with dangerous swine . . . . . Continue Reading »
Lutherans For Life National Conference Celebrating the Abundant Life July 24-25, 2009 Doubletree Westport, St. Louis, Missouri Keynote speaker: Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo Great speakers, workshops and life affirming fellowship! The two-day conference begins at 3:00, Friday, . . . . Continue Reading »
In our May issue—now available free online —Alan Jacobs reviews the Green Bible : The project website tells us that “with over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, compared to 490 references to heaven and 530 references to love, the Bible carries a powerful message for the . . . . Continue Reading »
“‘It was not our intent to interfere or cast dispersions on the tea party,’ said City Manager Don Cooper.” I bet they always say that when they break up a party down in Florida. . . . . Continue Reading »
Bizarro was funny today. But Dr. Kenneth Stevens, of Physicians for Compassionate Care, used the cartoon to make an important point about medical conscience clauses in a private e-mail to me (reprinted here with his permission): I think it [the cartoon] ties in with physician conscience. What if . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier today, I posted this funny Bizarro comic on a SHS feature called “Secondhand Smoke Funnies.” But Dr. Kenneth Stevens of Physicians for Compassionate Care caught a deeper, if probably unintended, message in the strip that I missed. (Curse you for your greater sagacity, Dr. . . . . Continue Reading »
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