Regular readers of SHS will know that I have reacted to recent rationing imposed within Arizona’s Medicaid by pointing out that it is an expected consequence of a single payer health systems hitting a budgetary brick wall. I expand on that analysis in this week’s Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
1. A Scientific Analysis of the 5-Second Rule* On surfaces that had been contaminated eight hours earlier, slices of bologna and bread left for five seconds took up from 150 to 8,000 bacteria. Left for a full minute, slices collected about 10 times more than that from the tile and carpet, though a . . . . Continue Reading »
Some decades ago, I witnessed an expression of pastoral tenderness that remains with me to this day. The mother of a dear friend died suddenly – at a very young age. They had been a family of three, émigrés from Moscow, and the funeral took place at a Russian Orthodox church in a New . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier today I noted how some pro-choice advocates are horrified at the logic of the abortion absolutists . But most of those advocates are merely following the logic of “choice.” If you really want to see where the depths of such thinking can lead, you have to turn to atheist . . . . Continue Reading »
William Saletan appears to be a bit dismayed to find that some abortion rights advocates follow the “pro-choice” position to its logical conclusion : Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, goes further. “Is there anything qualitatively different . . . . Continue Reading »
The nation was shocked at the arrest of a Philadelphia doctor and staff members for the murder of babies who were allegedly born via induced premature delivery, and then killed. The clinic also did late term abortions, including after viability. Over at Secondhand Smoke , I ask an important . . . . Continue Reading »
Slate’s Will Saletan, who definitely pitches his beliefs tent in the pro choice camp, goes into details about the Philadelphia abortion/infanticide mill, which I posted about the other day. He first notes that some pro choice absolutists believe in abortion through the ninth . . . . Continue Reading »
Carrie Frederick Frost is on a mission to convince as many people as possible to read Sigrid Undset’s epic trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter —and does a pretty good job of it in our second On the Square essay today. While there may be thousand reasons to read this thousand page book, Frost . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I certainly am happy John has joined us, and his first post was one of our best ever, in my view. 2. I’m continuing my vain effort to mainstream the wisdom of postmodern conservatism (on happiness, for the moment) here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Shades of the Gorham controversy! You remember that. No? Great jumping dust bunnies: must Google do everything for you ? In 1850 a secular court reversed an ecclesiastical court’s finding that one George Cornelius Gorham was unfit for a post in the Church of England because he denied baptismal . . . . Continue Reading »
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