Niall Ferguson offers a sweeping historical explanation — the clearest and broadest I’ve seen — of the financial crisis, including a delicious (to me) critique of the arrogant "quants" (quantitative whiz-kids) who created a "Planet Finance" in the sky and led . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a terrible mental illness called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), aka “amputee wannabe” because the sufferer becomes obsessed with having healthy limbs cut off. I have written before that some are actually arguing that a proper treatment for the disorder would be to cut . . . . Continue Reading »
Barbara Walters joins People and Oprah Winfry before her (three of our most destructive cultural wrecking balls) in cooing over Thomas Beatie, the “man” who gave birth. Why is he back in the news? Well, apparently Beatie is pregnant again, and despite early on having claimed to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently, Google has figured out a way to track flu outbreaks faster than the CDC: There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other . . . . Continue Reading »
Just because assisted suicide is legal in Oregon and Washington-State, that does make it right. The time has come for a very public and vibrant declaration of non cooperation with the culture of death.Toward that end, a new campaign to “Take the Pledge” against assisted suicide has . . . . Continue Reading »
All of the advocacy and tub thumping promoting the euphemist phrase “death with dignity,” accompanied by widepread media and the public support for the suicides of people with disabilities or serious illnesses, sends the insidious message to similarly situated people that they are . . . . Continue Reading »
Our own Peter Lawler explains that, like Reagan’s victory in 1980, Obama’s "negative landslide" was based upon the repudiation of an incompetent Republican party as well as his success in presenting himself as intellectually temperate, politically moderate, and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Roman Catholic Church is cutting off funds to the community organizing group ACORN, citing complaints over its voter registration drives in the November 4 election as part of the reason. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development froze its contributions to the group in June amid allegations . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, a woman in Cleveland gave birth to her own grandchildren: Jaci Dalenberg, 56, carried the children as a surrogate for her daughter, Kim Coseno, and had to be closely monitored because of her age. The woman from Wooster, gave birth to two identical twins and their sister by caesarean . . . . Continue Reading »
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