Remember when the above headline was breathlessly expected to come from human cloning and to serve as a repudiation of the Bush stem cell funding policy? This breakthrough, however, came about with induced pluripotent stem cells created from patient skin cells and bone marrow. From the story:Harvard . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Westminster Shorter Catechism : Q. 14. What is sin? A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God. From the Baltimore Catechism : Q. 278. What is actual sin? A. Actual sin is any willful thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to the law of God. From Senator . . . . Continue Reading »
This letter came to me from David Akhviediani, a Georgian student I met in Kraków last month: Dear friends! The aim of this email is to raise the awareness of those crimes that are currently being conducted by Russian occupants in Georgia. Russian troops are continuing illegal occupation of . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that Ryan isn’t the only person asking what exactly Senator Obama wants to do to America. Last week, Hugh Hewitt latched on to the rather daft-sounding response Obama gave to a child who asked him why he wanted to be President: “America” said he “is, uh, is no . . . . Continue Reading »
I have become so sick and tired of the baloney that swirls around assisted suicide advocacy like gruel in a blender. Assisted suicide is not really about the rare case when nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering—which has not been the case yet in any legalized jurisdiction from the . . . . Continue Reading »
To be recited in a John Wayne voice, with spirit (and spirits): A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor, Having drunk so much he could drink no more; So he fell asleep with a troubled brain To dream that he rode on a hell-bound train. The engine with murderous blood was damp And was brilliantly . . . . Continue Reading »
I think the stories of patients being refused life-extending chemotherapy by Oregon’s Medicaid—but offered assisted suicide instead—will materially impact the I-1000 legalization effort in Washington. First, this kind of heartlessness was predicted by opponents. Second, the old . . . . Continue Reading »
Picture a Franciscan praying, and the Poverello of Assisi comes to mind: a coarse-robed friar, alone in the woods, arms outstretched to heaven. Picture a Benedictine or Carthusian, and Into Great Silence resonates: a tonsured monk, reciting psalms in a darkened choir stall. Picture a Jesuit, a . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of Obama , as I was walking to the grocery store last night, I noticed a fashionably dressed elderly woman wearing a shirt that read: “Obama is the New America.” The New America? What exactly are we voting for in November? A new energy policy or a new foreign policy, or a new . . . . Continue Reading »
After some occasionally over-fevered speculation , Nature magazine, in its July 31 issue, finally announced the newest findings of the research team trying to decipher the Antikythera mechanism: The mechanism is an odd ancient device, discovered in the 1902 exploration of a shipwreck off the coast . . . . Continue Reading »
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