Who are these people which in terms of equality of conditions take upon themselves the responsibility to take care of others? They end up being the typical cops and firemen of our communities. They are good guys and we all know who they are. Surely they could not be messed up people. They are Andy . . . . Continue Reading »
A patent is allowed if something is a human invention. Naturally occurring elements and entities should therefore, not be patentable. And now, the Supreme Court has overturned a lower court case that upheld a patent for a method of testing for genes. From the AP story: The . . . . Continue Reading »
They don’t want us to be able to do anything! “Nature rights” would stop development in its tracks, and “ecocide” would punish large scale projects as an international crime akin to genocide.Showing you how serious they are about imposing such anti human nonsense . . . . Continue Reading »
Philip Kitcher at the New York Times Sunday Book Review has written an honest review of Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheists Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions , in light of the New Republic ’s christening it 2011’s worst book . Rosenberg’s compendium to the . . . . Continue Reading »
What has law school to do with Jerusalem? A fair amount, it turns out—at least in possibility. Addressing this somewhat-untouched subject will be an upcoming conference of Touro Law School: “The Place of Religion in the Law School, the University, and the Practice of the Law.” . . . . Continue Reading »
This is outright human experimentation—no matter how benignly motivated. “Ashley’s Treatment,” that is giving massive doses of hormones to seriously disabled children to keep them small and sexually immature, seems to be spreading. (Ashley also had her budding breasts . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Hennessey wonders why so many environmentalists are pro-choice : After all, abortion is not organic. That may sound glib, and I should maybe be better at just living in the moment and enjoying quality time with my kids, but I think it’s a useful way of looking at an issue that is . . . . Continue Reading »
See, this is why the debate over man made global warming isn’t over. In order to escape the implication of the Medieval Warming period on the theory of human-caused catastrophic warming, alarmists have insisted it was a localized phenomenon, that is, only Europe warmed quickly . . . . Continue Reading »
Almost universally hailed today as an intellectual visionary and transformative political leader, Vaclav Havel actually struggled to live up to both of those expectations, an essay in honor of the man appearing in The Nation reminds us. He was something of a reluctant crusader, and took an approach . . . . Continue Reading »
By a blindfolded child, as it turns out (and by a broad vote): Thousands of people flooded into Cairo’s Abbasiya Cathedral Tuesday to say a final farewell to Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of Egypt’s Coptic Christians for more than four decades. Shenouda III died Saturday at . . . . Continue Reading »
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