My head is spinning. The other day, we discussed the Portland case in which parents successfully sued doctors for wrongful birth, e.g., negligently performing prenatal tests so the parents didn’t abort their daughter child with Down syndrome. Now in Alabama, doctors can be sued . . . . Continue Reading »
If New Mexico wants to legalize assisted suicide, it is free to so do. But it hasn’t, and so a lawsuit will be filed to impose it by judicial fiat, a tactical move that has failed previously in Connecticut, Florida, Alaska, and California, in front of the US Supreme Court, . . . . Continue Reading »
National Review ‘s Katrina Trinko argues that Mitt Romney has an “evangelical problem.” In state after state, evangelicals have sent Mitt Romney a clear message: We’re just not that into you. Some evangelicals do pull the lever for Romney. But consistently there is . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on how religious freedom is not just a problem in Pakistan and China : Thirty-some years ago, I spent a fair amount of time on religious freedom issues; which meant, in those simpler days, trying to pry Lithuanian priests and nuns out of Perm Camp 36 and other GULAG islands. Had you . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . would he have wound up a dismal black-power Marxisant radical? Or, might he, like Frederick Douglass, who only mid-way in life became a defender of the U.S. Constitution, have become to some degree a model for a conservatism that can speak to blacks? Two Claremont-influenced Frederick . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Stokes Paulsen, writing for Public Discourse, laments the sorry condition of Vanderbilt’s awfully ironic pronouncements of toleration. An ultimatum has be issued announcing that the university will dispense with student religious groups that “impose faith-based or belief-based . . . . Continue Reading »
For a month we have been hearing about the moral unnaturalness—-the incomprehensibility and perversity—-of the traditional Christian opposition to birth control. But occasionally someone forgets about the party line and admits, sotto voce, that there is something to the traditional . . . . Continue Reading »
Setting the Record Straight on CIANA Michael J. New, The Corner An Evangelical Renaissance in Academia? Thomas Albert Howard & Karl W. Giberson, Inside Higher Ed The Fertility Implosion David Brooks, New York Times When General Grant Expelled the Jews Jonathan D. Sarna , . . . . Continue Reading »
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1. Romney came in on the very low side of what the polls predicted—and in third (if barely) twice. He remains stuck in the very high 20s. The late-deciders broke for Santorum, and the turnout in the pro-Romney affluent suburbs in both AL and MS was low. 2. Newt’s showing was ambiguous . . . . Continue Reading »
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