Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis—which is not generally a terminal illness—won a minor high court ruling today requiring the prosecutor to inform the public when those who facilitate suicide tourism, will be prosecuted. From the story:Terminally ill [Me: No she’s not] Miss . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Stith writes : Inclusion of abortion in an official national healthcare plan is a communal imprimatur, similar to the imprimatur received for gay sex when gay marriage is approved. It does more than increase liberty; it says that nothing is significantly wrong with the act in question. True . . . . Continue Reading »
Rabbinical Judaism begins with three simple directives: ”Be moderate in judgement, and raise up many students, and make a fence around the Torah.” The most difficult thing for a Christian to understand about Judaism is its concern with legal process, guided by a profound . . . . Continue Reading »
So, here’s the problem: We have need for health care reform to permit greater portability of policies, make policies more affordable, and help people find insurance who have preexisting conditions. But instead of fixing the actual problems in the current generally well working system, . . . . Continue Reading »
As the only two certainties in life, we shouldn’t be surprised to find that both death and taxes share a mutual connection: Sin. While death usually make for more interesting reading, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a thought-provoking discussion of “sin taxes” in his post ” . . . . Continue Reading »
We are told by some that the “clash of civilizations” between the West and the Islamic world is not really a clash between civilizations but a clash within the Islamic world itself. This is really a fight for “authentic Islam” between the Islamists and, for lack of a better . . . . Continue Reading »
Not perfect, by any means, but a surprisingly sensible take on the Gospel of Judas in the New Yorker : “The answer is not to fix the Bible but to fix ourselves.” . . . . Continue Reading »
File this under the radical company Obama keeps. Decades before Cass Sunstein, the nominated regulations czar, proposed that animals be allowed to sue their owners , the science adviser supported trees being given legal standing to sue in order to improve the environment! More over at . . . . Continue Reading »
Just when you thought that the high advisers to President Obama couldn’t get any more radical. Consider: Cass Sunstein, his nominated regulations czar, wants animals to be able to sue their owners and has asserted that the lives of elderly people should be given less value in government . . . . Continue Reading »
Noted Neuro-Buddhist Sam Harris has this to say about the President’s choice to head the NIH: Dr. Collins has written that “science offers no answers to the most pressing questions of human existence” and that “the claims of atheistic materialism must be steadfastly . . . . Continue Reading »
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