Rita Marker, head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide has a new article out about assisted suicide in Washington and how it subtly (and not so subtly) undermines the equal worth of all human lives. She describes a program held at a hospital in which a social . . . . Continue Reading »
Time, as Abraham Joshua Heschel never tired of saying, is only the mask of eternity. To God, who remembers and foresees all, memory and foresight are the same; for God to see the future is the same as for him to remember his own plan of salvation.Each year as the Assembly of Israel prepares to stand . . . . Continue Reading »
Howard L. Berman is a Democratic Congressman and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In an editorial,” Dealing With Iran’s Deception “, Berman informs us that Congress has to get moving to impose, should negotiations fail, what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t pay a lot of attention to the polls, but I never trust the polls taken for the New York Times. Rather than reflect opinion, I believe the NYT tries to use polling to mold opinion in a direction its bias favors.Case in point: Its latest poll, which gave Obama a 56-33% approval . . . . Continue Reading »
If we are not careful, health care reform will become the convenient excuse to permit government intrusion into almost every aspect of our lives. Now, it appears that it may even become a matter of criminal law. From the story:Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint . . . . Continue Reading »
When I first heard this I thought someone was putting me on. However, here’s the link, so maybe it’s the truth. Now I’m not a really big fan of exorbitantly large gummint but killing federales seems just a bit beyond the pale! I don’t think my ancestors at Pittsburgh back . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, really I’m not. I’m back home now, and the children have just gone to bed, most of them, after some moments of franticness over a white shirt a certain personage of this household has to wear to march with the Holy Crusaders in the Eucharistic procession tomorrow morning. Yes, yes, . . . . Continue Reading »
Listen to Mary Eberstadt talk about her excellent piece in the October issue: ” What Does Woman Want? ” Also, Alan Jacobs discusses why Wind in the Willows is still so good. More audio interviews can be found in the FT media archives . . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve been making great use of this striking coloring book, from the Hillside Education imprint. This isn’t so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained-glass-effect images of saints for every month of the . . . . Continue Reading »
On Friday afternoons no one wants to read another blog post about heath care reform or Iranian nuclear programs or how the nadir of Western Civilization is to be reached this afternoon at 3:32 P.M . Those things can wait till Monday. Friday afternoons are a good time (well, as good a time as . . . . Continue Reading »
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