“Get out of the lifeboat you expensive terminal cancer patients! Sure, your lives could be extended months, maybe even years,—but it isn’t worth the money! You’re going to die sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner. We need the money for more . . . . Continue Reading »
1. First off, I’ve been very negligent on the shameless self-promotion front. Today, at four, I’m going to present with Ralph Hancock and others on Pierre Manent—probably the greatest living “political philosopher” (so as to avoid the dumb discussion over who’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Sign of the times of the day (Canada Edition): An elderly priest on the Acadian Peninsula has been barred from performing church services in the Bathurst diocese after he made remarks about homosexuals and women who have had an abortion : In a letter written in French that he provided to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Sign of the times of the day (UK Edition): Police tell cafe owner: Stop showing Bible DVDs, or we will have to arrest you Police have threatened a Christian cafe owner with arrest –- for displaying passages from the Bible on a TV screen . . . . The Salt and Light cafe in Blackpool has for . . . . Continue Reading »
With the EPA admitting it wants needs 230,000 more bureaucrats to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act, with all tens of thousands it admits the states will also need, add in the massive increase in bureaucratic power and control under Obamacare and other bureaucratic imperialisms out of the . . . . Continue Reading »
In.san.i.ty—as in “extreme folly or unreasonableness”! The EPA admitted in a legal brief that its proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gasses beginning in 2016, would require 230,000 new employees to administer, but it wants to forge ahead anyway. From the EPA’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Well it looks like Chris Christie might be thinking about getting into the presidential race. Well, I hope he jumps in, but it occurs to that might be because I’m selfish. If I cared a lot about Christie personally, I’d say that his chances of getting nominated and elected . . . . Continue Reading »
Definitions matter. That point hit me hard as I read an article that wants doctors to be given the right to stop treatment from a man diagnosed to be in a persistent unconscious condition. From “When Family and Doctors Disagree on When to End life.”Hold on: Bad title! Doctors . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m sure a few of you have read this Dennis Prager piece, Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally on NRO, or have otherwise read about the study of Millenials’ moral thinking he’s referring to. Bottom line for Prager: no belief in God, no morality beyond emotivism, and so the . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter included this in his “First Links” this morning, but I wanted to call readers’ attention again to the fine essay at Public Discourse today by Helen Alvaré, Gerard V. Bradley, and O. Carter Snead, ” Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare .” It . . . . Continue Reading »
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