I will be interviewed tomorrow on the nationally syndicated America’s Morning News radio show with Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin. I will be on at 5:30 AM Pacific Time, which is 8:30 AM in the East, 7:3o Central Time—well, you get the picture. Our topic: My piece in the Weekly Standard . . . . Continue Reading »
The L.A. Times’ Jacket Copy blog has compiled a list of sixty one essential postmodern reads . While they don’t define exactly what constitutes postmodern literature, they annotate the list with certain attributes: “the author is a character, fiction and reality are blurred, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Much is apparently being made of Regina Benjamin, President Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General, being overweight. From the story:[T]he full-figured African-American nominee is also under fire for being overweight in a nation where 34 percent of all Americans aged 20 and over are obese. . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioethicist Dan Brock—one of the radicals in a radical movement—pushes health care rationing over at the Hastings Center Report. (To give you an idea about his views: In Children of Choice, a book he coauthored with two other bioethicists, Brock argued that the state has “a . . . . Continue Reading »
DC-area reader? Care about foreign policy? See me and several actual foreign-policy professionals discuss the fate of NATO and the future of the West , tomorrow in town. Wink from the audience and I’ll reference space wars, though probably not Star Wars. UPDATE: hear the whole thing. . . . . Continue Reading »
New animal studies show that pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), during which one cell is removed from an IVF-created embryo for eugenic testing, might not be safe for the babies who are allowed to be born. More details available over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a procedure wherein one cell of an eight-celled embryo is removed and eugenically tested for defects, sex, appearance attributes—whatever the prospective parents wish to cull from their prospective families by discarding embryos that don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the excellent aspects of the current American health care system is that most people can get immediate help if they become very ill. Not true in places like Canada or the UK, where waiting lines for crucial imaging tests can range in the several months—months that for cancer patients . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at First Thoughts, the conversation’s all about children’s books, good and bad. Meanwhile, I am noticing that the local public television station in Memphis, Tennessee, starts every day with six straight hours of children’s programming on the theme of how great reading is. Not . . . . Continue Reading »
Has there ever been a former President as irrelevant and ignorable as Jimmy Carter? Recently the man from Plains wanted to express his dismay at the misogynistic ways of Muslim, Southern Baptists, and other religious agents of intolerance. But apparently, no newspapers in the country he was once . . . . Continue Reading »
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