Final Exit Network was strongly suspected of assisting the suicide of Jana Van Voorhis, a severely mentally ill woman in Phoenix. The MSM ignored the story, but it was pushed strongly by New Times, an alternative newspaper. Now, its journalism seems to have helped lead to indictments. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
The date is fast approaching for the Second International Symposium on Assisted Suicide being held at the National Convention Center near Dulles Airport in Virginia on May 29-30. I’ll be there listening and speaking, as will Rita Marker, Alex Schadenberg, Diane Coleman, Margaret Dore, Bobby . . . . Continue Reading »
If the mainstream media continues to insist —for the sake of objectivity and balance, I’m sure—on calling opponents of abortion “anti-abortionists,” you’d expect to see those in favor of abortion to be labeled “pro-abortionists.” I won’t hold my . . . . Continue Reading »
If you haven’t already, be sure to read George Weigel’s “The Pope Versus the Vatican,” which appeared last month in the British magazine Standpoint : It is unlikely that Joseph Ratzinger accepted his election thinking of himself as another Leo XIII, who created the modern . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago I posted about a surprising Pew Poll that reported a dramatic shift toward the pro life position on abortion in the last year. Now the respected Gallup Poll has reported similar findings and discovered that for the first time, a majority of people identify themselves as “pro . . . . Continue Reading »
Another reason to love babies. Another reason Peter Singer’s wrong: What is it like to be a baby? For centuries, this question would have seemed absurd: Behind that adorable facade was a mostly empty head. A baby, after all, is missing most of the capabilities that define the human mind, such . . . . Continue Reading »
From Prospect in the UK, a story claiming that “more than one in ten Caucasians may have a ‘Churchill gene’ which helps them turn booze into great works”: Most people use alcohol as a social rather than creative stimulant, banishing cares with a potation or two after work; . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend studying Old English, having read my brief disquisition on prayer and the word bead, elaborates on my amateur’s etymology lesson: Gebed is still in use in modern Dutch as “prayer,” though they hack it out a lot more than the OE, which sounds like yebed. Those Dutch . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, Anthony, I give up. What is Kris Kristofferson doing in his pajamas on a church wall in — there’s a place in England called “Uckfield?” Barking I’ve heard of. Dorking I’ve heard of. Duck End I’ve been to. Ditto Wenhaxon and Onehouse. But never . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s something sublimely deranged about paying for otherwise unaffordable government outlays with the losses incurred at government-sponsored gambling tables , isn’t there? Long-term planning: now made possible by exacerbating the worst follies of short-term thinking! . . . . Continue Reading »
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