The headline is provocative, but I think it is accurate. With the HPV vaccine in the news, I thought I would check to see what happened with AB 499, a bill that would allow children to receive STD preventative treatment—e.g. HPV vaccine—without parental knowledge or consent. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Reihan Salam has some thoughts (and stats) about “”persuadable switchers” (voters who voted Obama in 2008 and Republican in 2010.) Long story short: these voters think of themselves as to the right of the President, but are strongly for some kind of federal old . . . . Continue Reading »
Pat Robertson approves of seeing “other people” and/or divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s because it is a “kind of death.” From a 700 Club segment (first two minutes of clip) in which Robertson answers a question about a man started seeing other people after his . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Every crazy CIA plot you’ve heard of originated with one man Sidney Gottlieb proved to the world that there are few things more dangerous than a chemist with a metaphysical streak - especially if he collects a few thwarted ambitions. Born in 1918, he was deemed physically unfit for duty in . . . . Continue Reading »
Eight members of an Amish community went to jail after they refused to pay fines for failing to affix orange safety triangles to their horse-drawn buggies . The men refused to pay the fines on grounds that their religion bars them from wearing or displaying bright colors because they are considered . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Lee Anderson explains why Pat Robertson’s recent comments about marriage and Alzheimer’s reveals a deeper problem with the Christian understanding of the body : The tragedy of Alzheimer’s is very real, but the fragmentation of the self that the inability to remember . . . . Continue Reading »
Shame on the jury who, in effect, agreed that a now happy child born with disabilities would be better off dead via abortion. From the Palm Beach Post story:During a roughly two-week-long trial that ended Wednesday, Mejia and Santana claimed they would have never have brought Bryan into the . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Leroy Huizenga reveals the real St. Hildegard of Bingen : Many have made Hildegard in their own image. She became a mystic to later medievals who saw her through the lens of her popular disciple Elisabeth of Schönau, although she was more properly a . . . . Continue Reading »
A leading conservative woman sent me this email in response to my Perry’c probably won’t win thing: I agree that it will be a close election, no matter what. I agree that Obama is still well liked, even while people are beginning to think, “Ya know, he’s just not good at . . . . Continue Reading »
The pending nationalization of health care will come at a steep price beyond sclerotic bureaucratization, increased costs, and the stifling of innovation. We will now begin to lose personal freedom in the name of cutting health care costs.Latest example: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor, is . . . . Continue Reading »
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