As I mentioned earlier , today is the 35th annual March for Life —held on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade (and it’s companion case Doe v. Bolton ). Readers might be interested in this interview that First Things board member Robert George did on the legal aspects of Roe . Click on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I mentioned some of the pro-life events that would be going on in Washington, DC, during the coming weekend and culminating today with the annual March for Life . I forgot to mention the West Coast Walk for Life (which was held over the weekend in San Francisco). You can view some . . . . Continue Reading »
Best Picture There Will Be Blood Juno No Country for Old Men Atonement Michael Clayton No surprises: Michael Clayton managed to massage every cliche of the law-firm-gone-bad genre into yet another mediocrity. As for Atonement . . . well, read this . Nice to see Juno in the mix. Ellen Goodman must . . . . Continue Reading »
We continually hear from the brave new world crowd that only religion would cause one to oppose ESCR and human cloning. That isn’t true, of course., One need not be religious to have serious reservations about using nascent human life as a mere natural resource.Here’s some evidence . . . . Continue Reading »
Dusty should be careful of what he asks for. I went off Atkins precisely because I felt as if meat was coming out of my ears. . . . . Continue Reading »
The FDA has determined that meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to consume. But some people would rather not consume cloned products, thank you very much. A proper answer to such consumer desires is labeling: Meat, milk, cheese etc. can be labeled clone free. From the story: Although the FDA . . . . Continue Reading »
Haven’t we seen this movie? You remember, that cheesy bit of reality TV directed by James Cameron about the supposed tomb of Jesus? Wasn’t that already voted off the island or dismissed with a sniff like a karaoke barfly on American Idol ? But it’s back—yes, the . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a brutally honest essay in the New York Times Magazine about the dismaying number of young girls in Indonesia whose parents force them to undergo the genital mutilation that goes by the euphemistic term, “female circumcision.” It is an awful story of the worst kind of misogyny, . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, cry my a river: Craig Barnett, chairman of Intel, boo-hoos about the supposed lack of science funding by the Feds in a whining column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. He writes:The recent budget deal between Republicans and Democrats effectively flat-funds or cuts funding for key . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an alarming story in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, byline Sabin Russell, that illustrates how life evolves to ensure that no matter how far we advance scientifically, death will always remain part of the experience of living. A terrible antibiotic-resistant strain of staph bacteria . . . . Continue Reading »
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