"Socially crippled" — strangely, this phrase appears to be kosher while regular-old-crippled is out ("differently abled, thank you"). Either way, at Slate, William Saletan is raising a ruckus over the notion that "appearance alone can be grounds for a potentially . . . . Continue Reading »
NASA has announced plans to donate its retiring Space Shuttle fleet to “educational institutions, science museums, and other appropriate organizations.” Recipients will just have to foot the bill for the shipping and handling of the shuttles: an estimated 42 million dollars. . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and a long-time activist in Washington, has passed away . A sad loss. May God welcome him home. . . . . Continue Reading »
Just a quick update, since many of you have asked and all of you were so kind: My daughter Faith is home from the hospital. She’ll still be bed-ridden for a week or so, but she’s now out of danger. Some strange, life-threatening virus had attacked her lungs—you really don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Can you imagine the if ” the experts” suggested that genetic tests be done on all pregnant women to screen for supposedly undesirable racial characteristics or a propensity for homosexuality (if that could be done), with the goal of vastly reducing the number of babies born with those . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written about Philip Nitsckhe before. He is the Australian doctor who is obsessed with suicide machines and making sure that anyone who wants to kill themselves be able to do so, including—as he stated in an NRO interview—“troubled teens.” With the new . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . brought to you by James C. Capretta on his blog for the New Atlantis in Washington. . . . . Continue Reading »
If the fact that First Things is produced here weren’t reason enough to love New York, New York Magazine suggests some others, including this one : Pregnant women in New York know how to tough it out in the city, even to the point of giving birth at the subway . . . . . Continue Reading »
This is obviously a brilliant parody. But it made me think about the same kind of junk advocacy I have heard from politicians pushing embyronic stem cell and human cloning research. We have been told that embryos aren’t really embryos, they are just cell balls. We have been told that the act . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to Michael Linton for passing along this interesting piece on seven antiphons of Advent in music: They’re sung one per day, at the Magnificat during vespers. They are very ancient, and extraordinarily rich in references to the prophecies of the Messiah. Their initials form an acrostic. . . . . Continue Reading »
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