Winner: Romney. He is killing Gingrich out there. Loser: Gingrich. This is a bully beatdown. Loser: People who want Mitch Daniels to run for President. Winner: Mitch Daniels. He gets to live a normal and hopefully happy life not running for President. Loser: . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Lawler is right that, in this race, the prevent defense is for losers. Romney needs to go at Gingrich precisely and relentlessly. If Romney’s attacks are poorly phrased, Gingrich will try to exploit any ambiguity to try to wriggle free. If Romney’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Here we ago again. A study has apparently shown that prejudice comes from low intelligence and social conservatism. (Surprise!) From the LiveScience story:There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to . . . . Continue Reading »
Newt Gingrich brought the audience to its feet with his comeback to CNN’s John King in the last of the South Carolina debates. Francis Beckwith thinks that Gingrich should have said something a bit different: The Speaker is, of course, correct that “every person in here knows . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “A Stem Cell Report,” Rebecca Oas writes about yet another way in which we might be able to use ethically unproblematic stem cells?in this case, from hair follicles?for medical treatment. Again and again, it seems, scientists are finding actual cures that come from adult stem . . . . Continue Reading »
Hype over embryonic stem cell research has been maddening. The media bias, extreme. And many in elected office, intent on using the sector as a special interest source of campaign funds—and believing the cures meme—have been decidedly uninterested in hearing . . . . Continue Reading »
During Parliamentary debates concerning artificial insemination two years ago, the Speaker of the Italian Low Chamber, Gianfranco Fini declared that “the Parliament should not pass laws that are inspired by religious precepts,” to which Elio Sgreccia replied: “The issues on which . . . . Continue Reading »
Rebecca Oas on the ethical use of stem cell therapies : Solid ethical argument will be centered upon the recognition that some research methods disregard the dignity and integral good of the person while other methods uphold it. It is essential that the basis of our arguments against embryonic stem . . . . Continue Reading »
Decades ago, before the advent of radio and television, public debates and rhetorical competitions were a significant part of American popular culture. Today, what little of the oratorical tradition that remains is often tossed into hasty slogans or cheapened with manufactured outrage. It is in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Bishops Betrayed David Gibson, Religion News Service An Interview with Mustafa Akyol Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches Winning Hispanic Evangelicals Gabriel Salguero, Washington Post The Cornerstone of Religious Freedom Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Wall Street Journal I’m with the Amish on This . . . . Continue Reading »
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