Wondering why Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and Aurelius Prudentius Clemens seem to be the talk of the town lately? It’s because the February issue of First Things is arriving in mailboxes across America and all your friends have already read George Weigel’s chronicling of The End of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The puff biopic about Kevorkian won a Golden Globe this weekend, and The Corner asked for my reaction. I reiterated the facts about K that I have pointed out repeatedly for my entire 18 years of anti euthanasia advocacy. I won’t repeat those fully here—you can see them in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The great US national health care reform debate is now entering its second, and I think, climactic phase. For the next two years the Republicans and a few Democrats will attempt to “repeal, replace, and defund” Obamacare. The final decision will probably come with the 2012 . . . . Continue Reading »
While The civil rights movement was led by Christians, it is easy to forget how many believers—particularly in the South—did not support the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On this day set aside to honor this great leader we should read his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Saturdays ago our third (17) and I went to see The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ . It was playing at the Ambridge Family Theatre , a small theatre in a nearby town, which has about fourteen rows of eight seats each, facing a 12 x 6 screen, with an old-fashioned pressed tin ceiling. . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl makes a number of gritty observations in the thread that deserve a separate post. They really do make indispensable contributions to advancing the study of this thought-provoking film on the web: Other symbolic elements, presumably coming from the novel that ought to be explored: 1) the snakes . . . . Continue Reading »
Single payer systems collapse under budget constraints. That is the lesson of the ongoing “NHS Meltdown” chronicled here over the last several years.Things have gotten so bad, I have to double triple up on the reporting from the front lines of the collapse. First, a Telegraph . . . . Continue Reading »
I took my family to visit my 94 year old grandmother in Columbia, Tennessee last night and today. After we ate (she’s still a great cook) and the kids went to bed, we stayed up looking through all her old photo albums.In the process, I realized how little I knew about the family in which . . . . Continue Reading »
I have always marveled at how some—generally on the Left or among Greens—have little or no problem with human cloning and enhancements—with some notable exceptions, of course, such as Bill McGibben—but rail angrily against animal or grain modifications. With that in . . . . Continue Reading »
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