This says a lot that is wrong at our universities—where social outlaws are celebrated and given huge speaking fees—and with the murderer Jack Kevorkian. At his recent speech at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, he had an American flag behind him with the Swastika in the field of . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently I’ve been discovering more of the Blues—chiefly in its incarnate form, B.B. King. In the late 1980s, U2 wrote “When Love Comes to Town” for King and played it with him multiple times on tour. The song tells a very Christian story of redemption within a typical blues . . . . Continue Reading »
From an AP story out of Tampa, FL : The Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice in a botched abortion case in which a live baby was delivered, but ended up dead in a cardboard box. The board on Friday found Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique in . . . . Continue Reading »
From ABC News, a moving story of sin and forgiveness: Nearly half a century ago, in a very different America, Elwin Wilson and John Lewis met under a veil of violence and race-inspired hate. Wilson, a young, white, Southern man, attacked Lewis, a freedom rider for Martin Luther King, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed the case of Eluana Englaro, who has been unconscious since an auto accident in 1992. Her father won a court order to remove her feeding tube. But for awhile, all hospitals and nursing homes refuse to participate in her dehydration. Mr. Englaro then found a facility that would, but . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Times Higher Education , Graham Farmelo offers an ode to espresso and, along the way, he gives his readers an enjoyable history lesson: The joy of the espresso, gastronomy’s magic bullet, is that it delivers the essence of the roasted coffee bean in all its subtle complexity without . . . . Continue Reading »
The choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge now has recordings of their sung services online for free . English choral music fans, take note. . . . . Continue Reading »
If you want a good example of how unsubstantiated rumors on the internet can snowball and gain legitimacy, Slate ‘s Brian Phillips tells the story of Masal Bugduv, a fictional soccer player from Moldova, who was able to capture headlines in some of Britain’s most respected publications: . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an awful, awful story: The photo at left is of a 22-week prematurely born infant. According to the AP—no pro life outlet—a more developed infant survived a late term abortion in Florida only to be put in a plastic bag and thrown out by a staffer at the abortion clinic. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Rose , one wonders whether scientific theorizing isn’t hard-wired in the brain, too . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
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