Carl Olson over at Ignatius Press’ Insight Scoop blog relates how one Catholic bishop had the audacity to prevent a Catholic biblical scholar from speaking at the Newman Center on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. That scholar is Luke Timothy Johnson. The bishop, Edward . . . . Continue Reading »
In the most recent issue of First Things (subscription required), Gilbert Meilaender argued against a proposal by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to create a system, “in which organs of the deceased would be taken for transplant, with their consent presumed, unless before death they had . . . . Continue Reading »
Do you wonder why the stem cell dispute that was supposed to propel Democrats into the White House is now a non issue? Credit the Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells that can be made from normal skin cells. After this astonishing breakthrough was announced, some among “the scientists” . . . . Continue Reading »
Swedish doctors oppose euthanasia. From the story: 84% of Swedish doctors say they would never consider helping a patient die, even if the patient asked for it and it was legal. 54% of Dutch doctors say that they have helped someone die. Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands. 16 000 doctors from 7 . . . . Continue Reading »
The unnamed researcher whose home was invaded by masked thugs in Santa Cruz (which we discussed here), whose husband was physically assaulted, is “flabbergasted” that she would be targeted. From the story:A biomedical researcher who was the target of Sunday’s attempted home . . . . Continue Reading »
Some articles of note from today include the following. A piece in the New York Times reminds us that not all black Americans are, in fact, African-Americans, and argues that the former term is therefore preferable to the latter. An article from Christianity Today reminds us that the Pew . . . . Continue Reading »
N.Y. Times homepage has just announced. He was 82. Update: Here’s the Times ’ obit , which obviously had been in the can for a while. (Check out the fourth graf. And thanks to Ryan Anderson for pointing it out.) . . . . Continue Reading »
The feminists are killing the English language, says David Gelernter in the new edition of The Weekly Standard . The vitriol and bombast in his writing does not help his argument, but the main point behind it is sound: The intelligentsia has decreed that standard English requires gender-sentitive . . . . Continue Reading »
Anthony, you’re clearly on to something in noting that one of the key aspects of success, historically, with Best Picture winners is some modicum of box-office success. The great William Goldman summed it up best when he likened the Academy Awards to the American automotive industry. Imagine, . . . . Continue Reading »
And they’re not embryonic. The latest study showing the uses of adult stem cells: http://pubs.ama-assn.org/media/2008j/0226.dtl#2 A review of previously published research suggests that stem cells harvested from an adult’s blood or marrow may provide treatment benefit to select patients . . . . Continue Reading »
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