As a California resident, I am painfully aware that my state is sinking in a red sea of debt. Yet, the borrowing to support human cloning research continues. Last week, Investor’s Business Daily noticed and in “The Bullet Missed,” argues that the time has come for a little fiscal . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s a name that curmudgeonly grammarians give to words derived from more than one languageand for the life of me, I can’t think of it. Television is a famous example, a Greek prefix on a Latin stem. Uber-theocon is another, less-famous example, a epithet someone or other flung . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, Rusty Reno commented on the protests at Sapienzia University in Rome and Benedict XVI’s gracious bowing out. Well, this weekend over 200,000 students (both young and old) poured into St. Peter’s Square in a sign of support. (More details and pictures here .) The text of the . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re sending the March issue of FT to the printer today, which means things are busy in the office. So, instead of writing something new about what it’s like to work at FT, here’s what I said last year : If you’re a young writer or thinker—finishing your undergraduate . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is sending refugees to Florida , which no doubt will make that state even more conservative. Ah the law of unintended consequences . . . (Those Joseph Kennedy/Citgo commercials they probably don’t run in Miami, right? I mean, because of the climate and all.) . . . . Continue Reading »
“Farming cloned livestock should be banned because the animals suffer too much, EU ethics experts said last night .” Meanwhile, in the USA, there is no restrictionat allon human cloning, be it for so-called “therapeutic” purposes (i.e. where a human being is . . . . Continue Reading »
So Planned Parenthood has acquired three clergy persons to bless the abortion wing attached to a hospital in Schenectady, New York. Now, finding three clerks who would do such a thing couldn’t be that difficult. Think virtually any mainline Protestant denomination, or three part-timers at a . . . . Continue Reading »
This time in the UK, using a patient’s own bone marrow to attempt to treat heart attack damage. From the story:British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients’ damaged hearts. The team . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve had an article on transgressive art and one on pornography (subscription required) in the last few issues of First Things . So what should I find when I open up this week’s New Yorker but an article by Calvin Tomkins about an artist who has combined the two, sort of (at this time, . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote a short essay for The Weekly Standard that describes an encounter Barack Obama had with a group of anti-abortion protestors who disrupted one of his campaign events in New Hampshire. Obama was thoughtful and level-headed. He displayed admirable strength of character in defending the . . . . Continue Reading »