Ryan T. Anderson

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23227651/ (Well, one comment, this guy is head pastor at “Relevant Church” . . . ) . . . . Continue Reading »

In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal , Peter Berkowitz had an interesting op/ed on ” The Neocons and Iraq .” His thesis? The neocons weren’t neoconish enough. Hardly a new observation, but the piece is worth reading. Here’s a taste: The Moynihan report and the Kirkpatrick . . . . Continue Reading »

I missed it earlier in the week, but this column in The New Republic by literary editor Leon Wieseltier shouldn’t go unnoticed. Here’s his opening: What you think of a presidential candidate is in large measure determined by what you think of the world. Different circumstances call for . . . . Continue Reading »

Two new papers have just been published documenting further advances with induced pluripotent stem cells—-stem cells that are “embryonic-like” but that are not derived from embryos. When the announcement was made about the successful attempts at creating induced pluripotent stem . . . . Continue Reading »

What was common sense for my grandmother. Science Daily reports : Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behaviour problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, according to a review published in the February issue of Acta Paediatrica. Swedish researchers also found . . . . Continue Reading »

LifeSiteNews reports : 65-year-old Raleane “Rae” Kupferschmidt’s relatives were told by doctors that she was “brain dead” after she had suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage in mid-January. Her family had taken her home to die and were in the process of grieving and . . . . Continue Reading »

David Brooks’ column today offers advice for ” Fresh Start Conservatism .” This jumped out at me: The first group of policies would foster two-parent families. If all American families looked like the intact middle-class ones, we wouldn’t have nationally low education . . . . Continue Reading »

Douglas Kmiec—-former dean of the law school at the Catholic University of America, the current chair of constitutional law at Pepperdine University, and the man who chaired Mitt Romney’s Committee on the Constitution—-wrote this article for Slate : ” Reaganites for Obama? . . . . Continue Reading »

The Drudge Report is highlighting this address that President Bush gave yesterday . A taste: Declaring the age of paternalism over, President Bush said Thursday the United States demands clear results for the billions of taxpayer dollars it sends to Africa. He accused other nations of exploiting . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, Nathaniel mentioned the Washington Post editorial on Iraq. Today, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal follow suit. The Times even notes some progress: Good news is rare in Iraq. But after months of bitter feuding, Iraq’s Parliament has finally approved a budget, outlined . . . . Continue Reading »