“Do me the favor of looking at it carefully”

by Ryan T. Anderson

Edward Cardinal Egan, the Archbishop of New York, asks us to just take a look . . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Oct 2008 0

Only in California …

by Ryan T. Anderson

The Wall Street Journal offers the following pop quiz: Who’s donated the most money to an effort in California to defeat Proposition 8, an initiative on the November 4 ballot that would define marriage as between a man and a woman in the state? A) Gay-advocacy organizations B) Civil-rights . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Oct 2008 0

Common Ground

by Stefan McDaniel

“They agree on little else, but the heads of Northern Ireland’s four main parties are united in their determination to deny their countrywomen access to free abortion at home.” So says an outraged correspondent for The Economist , reporting on the failure of an initiative to . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0

Elevating the Global-Warming Debate

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

This week we’ve pointed out a couple instances of the confusion surrounding the global-warming debate. If you’re looking for a clear and constructive forum on the topic, you should check out the website Climate Debate Daily , which compiles articles and news stories both for and against . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0

Wedded to the Left

by Stefan McDaniel

Why does a man who describes the French left as a “great backward-falling corpse” continue to associate himself with it? This is the question Fred Siegel tackles in his review of Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism by Bernard-Henri Levy. Even at its most exasperatingly . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0

New England Journal of Medicine Avoids Real "Inconvenient Truths" of Health Care Reform

by Wesley J. Smith

The NEJM has an editorial out in which it claims to tackle the three “inconvenient truths” about health care. From the editorial: 1. Over the past 30 years, U.S. health care expenditures have grown 2.8% per annum faster, on average, than the rest of the economy. If this differential . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0

Single Mouse Adult Stem Cell Grows New Prostate Gland

by Wesley J. Smith

Here’s an exciting animal experiment. Scientists found an adult prostate stem cell in mice and one cell grew an entire new prostate gland. From the story. Here we identify CD117 (c-kit, stem cell factor receptor) as a new marker of a rare adult mouse PSC population, and demonstrate that a . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0

How Far Should We Go in Permitting Creation of "Savior Siblings?"

by Wesley J. Smith

One of the disturbing areas of biotechnology that deserves more scrutiny than it has heretofore received is the “savior sibling” concept. A savior sibling is created via IVF and tested prior to implantation to match the DNA of a born child with a disease that could benefit from tissue . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0

X-Rays on the Cheap

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Scientists from UCLA have found an unexpected—not to mention cheap—way to produce x-rays: Scotch Tape . Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0

Moral Complicity With an Evil Act

by Keith Pavlischek

Ryan T. Anderson has already noted George Weigel’s exchange with Obama’s ostensible pro-life Catholic supporters. Weigel’s most recent rejoinder is, indeed, simply devastating. But there was one particular attack on Weigel that was not addressed, but is worth highlighting: Weigel . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2008 0