Shades of Caligula! I like fantasy films like Lord of the Rings and, when HBO’s Game of Thrones received good reviews, I thought I’d tune in. It isn’t that good generally, but the first episode contained two plot lines that I found disturbing and perverse: . . . . Continue Reading »
What happened to the anti-war movement ? President Obama inherited two wars, neither of which has ended—and the United States is now involved in military action in Libya—yet the anti-war movement has all but vanished. Why? The answer, according to a new research article, has to do with . . . . Continue Reading »
Apropos of Joe Carter’s earlier post about Douglas Kmiec’s difficulties as U.S. Ambassador to Malta, I’ll take the occasion of his resignation from that post to add my two cents’ worth. Let me begin by noting my early perplexity (to put it mildly) regarding the Obama-Kmiec . . . . Continue Reading »
Big IVF—for that is what it has become, a rich and politically powerful industry—objectifies human beings and distorts familial and other relationships in the name of making babies. It objectifies women as egg farms and womb leasing merchants. It objectifies embryos, what . . . . Continue Reading »
With Randmania breaking out this weekend with the appearance of a movie of Atlas Shrugged , readers may like to see William F. Buckley looking back on her work . He mentions the great review of the book by Whitaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged , published at the end of 1957, Big Sister . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news on the Obamacare repeal front. First, a key centrist Democratic Congressman wants to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a matter of urgent concern about which I have raised the alarm. From the story:Republicans have new a Democratic ally in their attempts to repeal . . . . Continue Reading »
For years we have heard that we humans have caused CO2 to rise—and hence it is “physics,” to use Al Gore’s terminology—that we are causing warming. Proof was in the ice core pudding. But then, we found that the earth warmed before the CO2 level . . . . Continue Reading »
I love the UK. I really do. But it is going to hell, literally or figuratively—take your pick. Latest example: Schools are showing Australian assisted suicide fanatic, Philip Nitschke’s, euthanasia film to children as young as 14. From the story:Pupils are being taught . . . . Continue Reading »
A woman tried to commit suicide with rat poison late in pregnancy. She survived, but her baby died after birth. From the story:Bei Bei Shuai, 34, a restaurant owner who moved to the US from China 10 years ago, was pregnant and planning to marry her boyfriend until she learned late last . . . . Continue Reading »
The BBC will soon play a video of an assisted suicide—narrated by a famous euthanasia advocate—that took place in one of the Swiss suicide clinics. This isn’t the first time such a thing has been done in the UK. And of course, in the USA ,the pro euthanasia advocate . . . . Continue Reading »
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