This understatement of the day is given to us by Alfie Patten, the thirteen-year-old British boy who just became a father: Alfie Patten, 13, and his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, decided to keep Maisie who was conceived after one night of unprotected sex. Alfie, who is just 4ft tall, . . . . Continue Reading »
On January 27, 2009, Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA 11th District) responded to a caller on C-SPAN , who, struggling to support her family while earning fewer than ten dollars an hour, was questioning the unaccounted recent federal bailouts. She was polite, but angry. Here’s my . . . . Continue Reading »
As I get ready to fly to Dublin, I learn that chimpanzees are dancers . . . . Continue Reading »
We keep hearing from those who support dehydration that taking food and water away from cognitively disabled patients leads to a “gentle death.” I have written debunking this fallacy, but here is a reporter’s take on Eluana’s death so you can judge for yourself. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society) is the abundantly funded, prime mover and shaker for the assisted suicide movement in the USA. It unquestionably had a good year in 2008 with the passage of I-1000 in Washington and the imposition of a fundamental state constitutional right to . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael New’s latest on the claims of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is a must read: An August 2008 study released by the group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good had Obama supporters (and some editorial boards) swooning. Analyzing state level abortion data from 1982 to . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is a short excerpt of an address I’ll be delivering at Geneseo College devoted to Lincoln’s Bicentennial: Of course, the occasion for my lecture today is the Bicentennial celebration of Abraham’s Lincoln’s birth. It’s worth noting that today is also the bicentennial . . . . Continue Reading »
The Senate might seem to have a solid nominee for Deputy Attorney General in the well-credentialed and experienced David Ogden, but Matthew Schmitz of Public Discourse provides compelling reasons to think otherwise: David Ogden graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for Supreme Court Justice . . . . Continue Reading »
I just happened upon a good opinion piece by New York Times editor Dana Jennings. He is fighting prostate cancer with all of its difficulties and inconveniences—and through it all, his wife Deb has vividly exemplified why, as the Beatles so quaintly put it, all you need is love. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
The autopsy of Eluana Englaro shows she died of cardiac arrest. From the story: An autopsy performed on the controversial ‘right to die’ woman, Eluana Englaro, who died in Italy on Monday has shown she died of cardiac arrest, provoked by dehydration after her feeding tubes were removed . . . . Continue Reading »
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