The AMA has officially supported palliative sedation. This should be able to go without saying. But due to assisted suicide advocates trying to turn palliative sedation into “terminal” sedation, confusion has arisen. In any event, from the story in the American Medical News:When all else . . . . Continue Reading »
David Warren gives us the latest on Mark Steyn and the Canadian human rights courts: As was perfunctorily reported on Thursday, the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission, one of three HRCs to which Islamists took Maclean’s magazine for having published Mark Steyn, has . . . . Continue Reading »
The Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee, writes in today’s Washington Post : But will the money allocated for AIDS stop the spread of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa, where 76 percent of the world’s HIV-AIDS deaths occurred last year? Not . . . . Continue Reading »
I grow weary of PETA’s antics. Now, they are attacking actress Jessica Simpson for wearing a T-shirt that read, “Real Girls Eat Meat.” From the story:Alistair Currie, a spokesman for Peta, said: “Jessica Simpson might have a right to wear what she wants, but she doesn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
A muskrat has undermined a levee on the Mississippi River, leading to the threatened destruction of homes. From the story:A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed yesterday—undone by a burrowing muskrat. The furry . . . . Continue Reading »
We hear much about the deficiencies of the American health care system. But things aren’t well north of the border, either—according to Claude Castonguay,one of the architects of the Canadian system. From the Investors Business Daily editorial:Four decades later, as the chairman of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Begin rant:The animal rights crowd has many allies in their fight to elevate animals to the moral equivalents of human life. One is the media, that almost always misses the big point and treats their advocacy as merely about being “nicer to animals.” Another are all those folk in the . . . . Continue Reading »
More reportage on Spain about to grant great apes “human” type rights—and a little candor from the revolutionaries. I have been saying that the GAP is not the goal but the initial means to attaining the goal, the catapault that first breaches the wall (to use another metaphor), . . . . Continue Reading »
“When I get up in the night . . . I sing and I paint. Sometimes I go out to look at the stars and the moon. So I sing. I come back here maybe at 2:00 during the night. Then I start painting . . . . It is a prayer for me to paint.” —Sr. Magnificat For a delightful glimpse into the . . . . Continue Reading »
Christine Rosen reflects on the passing of Harriet McBryde Johnson: When Harriet McBryde Johnson died earlier this month at the age of 50 from a congenital neuromuscular disease, obituaries called her a “disability-rights activist.” This is far too narrow a description of her life. She . . . . Continue Reading »
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