Advent I

by David T. Koyzis

This has to be one of my favourite Advent hymns, a versification of Isaiah 40:1-5 set to the Genevan tune for Psalm 42. Here is a wonderful choral version arranged by David Ashley . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Nov 2010 0

Obamacare: No Severibility Clause Means Entire Law Could Fall!

by Wesley J. Smith

This story stunned me: It is SOP for legislators to put a “severability clause” into legislation, so that if part of a law is found unconstitutional, the rest of it can remain in effect.  But Obamacare has no such clause. This could have the most profound consequences.Lack of . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria: True Radicals are the Truest Believers

by Wesley J. Smith

I was reading Planet Gore over at National Review’s website and an item by Chris Horner caught my attention.  A global warming hysteric named George Dvorsky has decided we need to do away with national sovereignty and democracy in the name of fighting the coming meltdown.  From . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria: Only Pollution Can Save Us Now!

by Wesley J. Smith

Carbon dioxide continues to increase in the atmosphere, but the rate of warming is a trickle.  That doesn’t meet with scientific expectations!  What’s the holdup in the meltdown?  Pollution! From the story:Global warming has slowed in the last decade, according to the Met . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria Dead—Onto Saving the Environmental Movement

by Wesley J. Smith

A Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, who writes from the relatively conservative side of the street (she writes in Canada, after all), declares the death of global warming hysteria and urges environmentalists to save their movement—of which she is a part as a director of the anti nuke . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2010 0

Weekend Links — 11.27.10

by David Mills

A free Southern Sudan will be bad news for Darfur , according to Foreign Policy . Someday  Israel will have to say “no” to the United States and make an alliance with India, according to an Israeli academic and lawyer. Iraqi Christians are still fleeing the country , as Islamic . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2010 0

Thirty Three Things (v. 25)

by Joe Carter

1. April 11 1954: Most boring day of 20th century Researchers claim they have ‘officially’ discovered the most boring day of the 20th century . . . April 11 1954. A team of Cambridge scientists say the day was devoid of any major news events or even the birth or death of any famous . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Nov 2010 0

Obamacare: Medicare’s Travails and the Loss of Optimal Care a Precautionary Tale

by Wesley J. Smith

Medicare is in deep trouble because it is a single payer health care system that seeks to cut costs by, among other ways, restricting physician and facility compensation. As a consequence, we are seeing the ongoing collapse of the system as doctors restrict their patient load and cease providing . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Nov 2010 0

European Court of Human Rights to Decide if a Right to be Dead

by Wesley J. Smith

We live in a strange era in which Jefferson’s “right to life” supposedly has a concomitant “right to death.”  At least, that will be the case if the European Court of Human Rights rules that Germany violated the right of a woman with disabilities to obtain a lethal . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Nov 2010 0

Sauce for the gander?

by Joseph Knippenberg

Mark Silk notes that a Christian counseling center that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann co-owns with her husband receives a bit of funding from the Minnesota state government and questions whether she’s in any position to object (as she has) to potential public funding for the . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Nov 2010 0