We are concluding our journey in London, my (and Secondhand Smokette’s) favorite city in the world. Nephew Eric said that for all we have seen on our whirlwind adventure, London is the place that he definitely wants to visit again (if the strikers don’t shut the whole place down . . . . Continue Reading »
The so-called “duty to die” has been quietly discussed in bioethics for more than a decade. Now, a major British Medical Association leader proposed an implicit duty to die by stating that terminally ill people may have to be denied life-extending treatments due to the costs of . . . . Continue Reading »
You might want to keep the following story away from your kids: A new study finds that not eating candy may make them fat. So saith the scientists: For the study, published in Food & Nutrition Research, researchers at Louisiana State University tracked the health of more than 11,000 youngsters . . . . Continue Reading »
Of all the current Supreme Court Justices, Clarence Thomas is probably the one whose legal reasoning is most under-appreciated. Thomas often expresses a keen understanding not only of what the law is but what it is for . A prime example is provided by Quin Hillyer in his article explaining . . . . Continue Reading »
Same-sex civil marriage is not an inevitability, argues Matthew Schmitz in today’s On the Square feature : The approval of same-sex civil marriage by the New York state legislature did not bring on the end of the world, or of history. It did not even mark, as Michael Potemra claimed in a post . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest Iowa poll shows Pawlenty behind Romney, Bachmann and Cain. As A.B. Stoddard points out, Pawlenty is even running behind the corpse of Newt Gingrich’s political aspirations. The early polls are lousy predictors of who will win in the end, but those same polls can give . . . . Continue Reading »
Gay Marriage Law Won’t Stop The Legal Fights , The Wall Street Journal (Ashby Jones) Several States Forbid Abortion After 20 Weeks , The New York Times (Erik Eckholm) Judge Explains 150 Year Sentence for Madoff , The New York Times (Benjamin Weiser) Gay Marriage Foes Target N.Y. Senators Who . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s supposed to be, as I explain, Obama’s “hidden advantage.” . He won’t have any primary opposition that might weaken him. There’s a lot to say, but it is true that nobody doubts that Obama is a real Progressive, just as nobody doubted that Reagan is a real . . . . Continue Reading »
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Many of my friends have been disappointed with the response to the NY marriage vote at some conservative outlets, and I can hardly blame them. It’s difficult to imagine a similar response if one of the other legs of the conservative “stool” suffered such a setback. That said, . . . . Continue Reading »
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