The Oregonian is trying to defend the Oregon Medicaid rationing scheme and its offer to pay for the assisted suicides of patients for whom it denied life-extending chemotherapy. The idea behind the Oregon scheme was to expand coverage to people who were not the poorest of the poor, but at the cost . . . . Continue Reading »
The Democrats didn’t invite Archbishop Charles Chaput to their convention in Denver this year, for understandable reasons . Instead, they invited Sr. Helen Prejean C.S.J. to speak at their interfaith gathering. If they were trying to avoid controversy and shore up support from religious party . . . . Continue Reading »
Finally. It was several years in the making, but I have just electronically turned in my manuscript of the animal rights book to the publisher. It came in at between 90,000 and 100,000 words, not surprising given that “short-winded” is not exactly my strong suit.I can’t tell you . . . . Continue Reading »
The other day while reading Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” I came across the following passage: As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the . . . . Continue Reading »
When the MSM declares an adult stem cell success “stunning,” as the Washington Post headline does, you know it is a new day. In mice, scientists were able to transform adult cells into stem cells—from within the body! From the story: Scientists have transformed one type of fully . . . . Continue Reading »
The transhumanist psychologist’s last words, uttered moments before he suddenly realized that he had been chasing the literally impossible . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re at all sick of non-stop political reporting on the election, here’s the perfect antidote: Dave Barry is reporting daily from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. His pieces for August 24 , 25 , and 26 are currently on the Miami Herald’s website, with more to . . . . Continue Reading »
An excerpt from a letter of St. Thomas More to Erasmus, written on the 14th of June, 1532: Congratulations, then, my dear Erasmus, on your outstanding virtuous qualities; however, if on occasion some good person is unsettled and disturbed by some point, even without making a sufficiently serious . . . . Continue Reading »
This past Sunday on Meet the Press , Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed that, having studied the matter carefully as a “fervent, practicing” Catholic, she had learned that doctors of the Church have historically had no fixed position on when human life begins; therefore, one . . . . Continue Reading »
The Department of Health and Human Services has a proposed regulation up for public comment that would apparently provide protection for doctors who do not wish to perform abortions. From the story:The proposed rule, which applies to institutions receiving government money, would require as many as . . . . Continue Reading »
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