Assemblypersons Patti Berg and Lloyd Levine’s attempt to institute backdoor assisted suicide via “palliative sedation” just hit a big bump in the road: To get it out of a California Senate committee—they had to consent to their pet bill being gutted. From the California . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Republic is up in arms at the latest Catholic League press release. At her Washington Post / Newsweek site “On Faith,” Sally Quinn wrote about attending the funeral Mass for Tim Russert: “Last Wednesday I was determined to take it [the Eucharist] for Tim, . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, Amanda Shaw wrote about the Cistercian monks of the Sift Heiligenkruz whose chant CD hits US stores on Tuesday. Today’s New York Times had a nice article on their life. . . . . Continue Reading »
We are all apes now, as the Spanish Parliament will soon be granting “human” rights to apes, which is actually to say that human rights are being demoted into mere temporary protections. This story deserves greater coverage, and I intend to do something about that in the next few weeks. . . . . Continue Reading »
A reader writes in and notes the striking similarities between Mr. Bottum and Mr. Spock. . . . . Continue Reading »
The promoters of embryonic stem cell enterprises continue to tout soon to come “breakthroughs” accompanied by supine media coverage and inaccurate statements by “the scientists” who twist and distort scientific definitions to win a political debate. Such spin in the name of . . . . Continue Reading »
The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed an expansion of the ADA’s protection against workplace discrimination. From the story:In deciding whether a person is disabled, the bill says, courts should generally not consider the effects of “mitigating measures” like . . . . Continue Reading »
Spain is on the verge of fully passing the Great Ape Project. Conceived by Peter Singer and an Italian philosopher, that which was unthinkable in 1993 when it began, has come to pass in a mere fifteen years.Singer’s overarching goal is to obliterate Judeo/Christianity as the reigning . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert George, Joseph Bottum, Robert Wilken, Richard John Neuhaus After this year’s board meetings, several of us gathered for . . . well, a hootenanny, I guess you’d have to call it. Little did we know that our junior fellow Nathaniel Peters used his camera to record some . . . . Continue Reading »
The patient in the Winnipeg futile care lawsuit has died while on life support. From the story: In the end, it wasn’t a judge who decided Sam Golubchuk’s fate—time ran out for the 84-year-old and his family who challenged the province’s medical community over who gets to . . . . Continue Reading »
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