Near the top of my list of “Movies I Want to See But That Will Probably Never Be Made” is Mel Gibson’s film about Judah Maccabee , the Jewish warrior whose restoration of Jewish worship at the temple in Jerusalem is celebrated at feast of Hanukkah. Gibson’s Icon Productions has . . . . Continue Reading »
I opposed Gov. Rick Perry’s attempt to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for all of Texas’s girls. But this is ridiculous. In attempting to hit Perry for “crony capitalism” because of his ties to the vaccines manufacturer—a fair hit—she goes way out of bounds by . . . . Continue Reading »
I met my wonderful friend, Mark Pickup, in Vancouver way back in November 1997 at an anti euthanasia conference where we were both speaking. Ah, we were young! Over the years we have become closer than brothers, to the point that I dedicated my book Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia wonder if our nation is holding to tightly to 9/11 grief: As I watched the 9/11 Memorial Service at Ground Zero, I couldn’t help wondering—a decade after that unprecedented attack—are we holding too closely to our grief, allowing . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite Archbishop John J. Meyers’ critique of a gay marriage course taught at the diocesan Seton Hall University in the Fall 2010, Professor W. King Mott of the political science department will be teaching it again this Fall . Archbishop Meyers affirms his responsibility for maintaining the . . . . Continue Reading »
In the past few weeks, the United States has seen the opening of two major new national memorials: the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, DC and the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan. At first blush, these two sites seem to be almost perfect opposites. The King Memorial is ostensibly a . . . . Continue Reading »
A Bully-Free World? Public Discourse , Mary Rose Somarriba In Study, Fatherhood Leads to Drop in Testosterone New York Times , Pam Belluck Witherspoon, Edwards, and Natural Law at Princeton ISI’s American Studies Center , Joseph DiLuzio Gay marriage ban debated in North Carolina Associated . . . . Continue Reading »
Steve Saint, a missionary to the Waodani people of Ecuador, has a provocative article on ” projecting poverty where it doesn’t exist “: When people visit the Waodani, they look around and think, “Wow, these people have nothing!” People from the outside think the Waodani . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro embryonic stem cell research scientists sure can get touchy about ethics. In fact, if you read what some of them write, you might conclude that they believe only scientists should decide what is ethical in science.What else are we to think about a blog entry by a “faculty level . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not even sure I’m watching, 1. Romney and Bachmann are going to be gunning for Perry on Social Security. Perry might have been executing a rope-a-dope. If comes back with a plausible answer built around condemning what is broken about the current system and . . . . Continue Reading »
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