“I wanna be that dad who knows how to make stuff out of wood,” Burt Farlander says, deciding for the first time what he wants to be when he grows up. It’s a little late for such thoughts, since he’s in his mid-thirties. But he never had much of a reason before now—now that . . . . Continue Reading »
After researching one chapter in Culture of Death and a whole book for A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, I am utterly convinced of the need for animal research in the quest to find treatments for disease and otherwise ameliorate human (and animal) suffering. But that doesn’t mean it is . . . . Continue Reading »
Hmmm. I take Jennifer Bryson’s point, via Nathaniel Peters , that in his speech President Obama used more precise and defensible terms than “the Muslim world.” Yet, by addressing “Muslim communities,” “Muslims around the world,” and “Muslim-majority . . . . Continue Reading »
On May 12, I posted an article entitled, “The Torture Debate Shows Our Vulnerability to Radical Evil.” My conclusion:Nearly two hundred thousand Americans, military and civilian personnel, were exposed to Iraqi terrorist organizations that routinely employed suicide bombings in . . . . Continue Reading »
Sean Curnyn and David Goldman both note the perils of a speech directed to “the Muslim world.” But at Public Discourse, Jennifer S. Bryson , director of the Witherspoon Institute’s Islam and Civil Society Project, notes that despite the characterization of the press, Obama . . . . Continue Reading »
The foundational premise of Islam is that other peoples distorted and perverted the true message of God, which Mohammed presented in its pure and final form in the Koran. The Koran does not “fulfill” Christian or Jewish scripture, as Christianity claims to do for the Jewish Scriptures it . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s not wrong for animals. Unlike us, animals aren’t moral . . . . Continue Reading »
From the front page of FoxNews.com : . . . . Continue Reading »
All of the attention paid to President Barack Obama’s speech to Cairo—including to an extent the negative criticism—has played into the rather strange concept behind it all; that is, that the speech is in itself some kind of real act that will effect a sought-after real-world . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Catholic World Report , Philip F. Lawler reports that Caritas Christi, the healthcare arm of the archdiocese of Boston, has bid on a contract from the state of Massachusetts that “explicitly stipulated that coverage must include provisions for abortion, contraception, and . . . . Continue Reading »
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