From The Anchoress : It is interesting to think, isn’t it, that if America is brought low (a no-longer unthinkable notion, unfortunately) and the crazymen that we’re hot to appease in Iran, or North Korea or Venezuela get together to do crazy things, the only fully-functioning and . . . . Continue Reading »
to all for making September our biggest month of visits ever. . . . . Continue Reading »
The articles urging that the dead donor rule be discarded to allow doctors to kill for organs are proliferating. I reported on a Nature editorial so advocating just a few days ago. Now a similar piece has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics , written by F.G. Miller. I think it is . . . . Continue Reading »
I reported the other day that Nature editorialized in favor of loosening the rules to allow living patients to be killed for their organs (more about which, soon). And now, we see more advocacy for lethal medicine in The Journal of Medical Ethics, an international publication. From the article . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, I have written more extensively about the head prosecutor in the UK decriminalizing inter-familial assisted suicide. From my piece in the current Weekly Standard:On July 4, 1995, Myrna Lebov, age 52, committed suicide in her Manhattan apartment. The case generated national headlines . . . . Continue Reading »
The Telegraph claims that close scrutiny of a photo of Ahmadinejad’s identity card shows that his family were practicing Jews: his surname was originally “Sabourjian”.The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad’s birthplace, and the name derives from . . . . Continue Reading »
Even in the Age of Google—when the answer to almost any general question can be found using a search engine—its often more interesting to tap into the wisdom of crowds to satisfy our curiosity. Since I’ve always been curious about the economic lives of Roman Catholic clergy, but . . . . Continue Reading »
From the New York Times : Married people tend to be healthier than single people. But what happens when a marriage ends? New research shows that when married people become single again, whether by divorce or a spouse’s death, they experience much more than an emotional loss. Often they suffer . . . . Continue Reading »
Another day, another “NHS Meltdown” story. In this chapter, the majority of women who have a mastectomy for breast cancer are not offered reconstructive surgery. From the story:The NHS is letting down women with breast cancer by offering less than half of sufferers the chance to have . . . . Continue Reading »
Last weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with their allies the Free Democrats (FDP), won 48.4% of the vote in parliamentary elections. Although the CDU lost part of its vote share from the last elections, the FDP won a larger share of the votes . . . . Continue Reading »
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