According to a recent Pew Forum poll , the level of support for abortion has dropped: Between August and late October 2008, the proportion supporting legal abortion ranged from 57 percent (in mid-October) to 53 percent (in late October), before declining to 46 percent currently. Though opinion . . . . Continue Reading »
We need our newspapers!The problem is the quality of the editors:The problem is the quality of the reporters: The problem is the quality of the public: The problem is also the bias.When transhumanism becomes . . . . Continue Reading »
I used to love to buy eggs at Aldi.But no more. They’ve gone to a biodegradable “green” paper carton, which would be all right, except that the eggs now cost thirty cents more, and they’ve axed the Bible verse and the recipes, too.Your environmental gospel: less for . . . . Continue Reading »
I never thought it would come to this, and I am not a fan of Ron Paul. But... Paul and others have introduced H.R. 2218, called the “Parental Consent Act.” The purpose of the bill is to prevent children from being subjected to mandatory mental-health screening without the express, . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Guardian , Bobbie Johnson unveils the secret technology behind Google’s bold plan to scan the world’s books: For all the discussion and debate about Google’s controversial (and potentially anti-competitive ) plan to digitize millions of books, little has been known about . . . . Continue Reading »
At the National Post , Robert Fulford reviews Roger Scruton’s new book, Beauty : So what’s wrong with kitsch, exactly? It’s garish, tasteless and sentimental, of course. Garden gnomes and conventions of Elvis impersonators may be its most outlandish examples, but you can find . . . . Continue Reading »
From Wednesday’s “Metro” section of the Washington Post in an article titled, ” Ministers Lead Protest of D.C. Legislation “: This month, the D.C. Council gave preliminary approval to legislation that would recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the country, . . . . Continue Reading »
I got my obedient plant from a friend, who warned me about it; she also gave me a baby Rose of Sharon, as well as several other less-religiously-inclined plants. She described them all to me as “thug-like,” meaning that you could just stick them right into the heavy West Tennessee clay . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher over at BeliefNet has a weather eye for religious oddities, and yesterday posted a note about an evangelical missionary to the Amazon jungle who lost his faith after getting to know a tribe that saw the world in a radically different way:[Dan] Everett spent decades living with the Piraha . . . . Continue Reading »
Ali Allawi’s book on the crisis of Islamic civilization received more attention than most recent volumes on the subject, including a brief note in the London Economist April 16. I reviewed it in a “Spengler” essay this morning in Asia Times. It is a very good book, in the sense . . . . Continue Reading »
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