Google Offers Tool to Let You Track Your Friends’ Movements

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Instead of talking to your friends, why not just track them ? . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Feb 2009 0

Prayers for Amy Welborn and Family

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Amy Welborn’s husband, Michael Dubruiel, tragically passed away this morning. Please pray for Michael, Amy, and the entire Dubruiel family. . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

Italy Woman Sent to Clinic to Die

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

From the BBC : A woman at the center of the right-to-die debate in Italy has been moved to a clinic where she will be allowed to die after 17 years in a vegetative state. Eluana Englaro was transferred by ambulance overnight to the private facility in the northern city of Udine. The Vatican and . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

Media Malpractice: Miami Herald Still Unable to Report Accurately About Kevorkian

by Wesley J. Smith

Another university is paying Jack Kevorkian to speak, and once again the media—in this case the Miami Herald—can’t even report the basic facts about him correctly. From the story, byline Julie Levin: Dr. Jack Kevorkian will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Nova Southeastern . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

Failure of Human Animal Hybrid Cloning Could Spark Human Egg Market

by Wesley J. Smith

A few weeks ago, I posted about bitter complaints being made by scientists in Brave New Britain that the government had not yet funded the creation of human/animal hybrid cloned embryos. The scientists charged that morality might have played a part in the non funding—a terrible thought that . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

"Abolitionist" Gary Francione Laments State of Animal Rights Movement

by Wesley J. Smith

Gary Francione, who argues that to be authentic all animal rights believers must be vegan and lead by example (I agree with him on this), is unhappy. He worries that the animal rights movement is falling backwards because of the “humane meat” campaigns that, in his mind, have made carne . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

Getting a Job

by James Ceaser

Because of my participation on this blog, which bears the name conservative (albeit postmodern), I have evidently not yet made it on the list of potential appointees to the Obama team. This is much to be regretted, not for any reasons of personal ambition, which I abjure completely, but because in . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

Chastity on Campus

by Nathaniel Peters

My former colleague Ryan T. Anderson has a piece today on The Public Discourse in which he outlines how Princeton’s Anscombe Society has had success in responding to the hook-up culture on college campuses: by arguing for chastity, marriage, and the family on rational grounds. Read the whole . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

Overturing Mexico City Policy Unpopular

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Of all the major actions President Obama has taken since assuming office, his decision to overturn the Mexico City Policy remains his least popular, with only 35 percent of Americans approving of the move to fund international organizations who provide abortions, the most recent USA Today/Gallup . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0

Your Tax Dollars at Work

by Stefan McDaniel

Representative Peter King from New York has introduced a bill that would require that all camera phones emit “a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone” when a picture is taken. The idea is that this will prevent sexual predators from surreptitiously taking . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2009 0