You’re probably pretty stressed right now, aren’t you? You’re not alone: Researchers say they quizzed 3,000 people about stress levels and discovered that half pin-pointed mid-morning on Tuesday as their ‘stress peak’. The majority of workers said they coast through . . . . Continue Reading »
In the October issue of First Things , twenty-two-year-old Lila Rose wrote about her crusade against Planned Parenthood . She tells how she went undercover to two Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinics posing as a young, scared, pregnant fifteen years old, the victim of a twenty-three-year-old . . . . Continue Reading »
New research shows that the political soundbite has been shrinking for more than a century : A professor at the University of California had just published research showing that the length of the average TV sound bite had dropped dramatically, from 43 seconds in the 1968 presidential election to a . . . . Continue Reading »
By now you’ve probably heard that a federal judge ruled Obamacare is “unconstitutional” since it includes a mandate requiring citizens to purchase health insurance. But did you know the ruling includes a footnote noting that when Obama was on the campaign trail he . . . . Continue Reading »
A Florida federal judge declared Obamacare’s individual purchase mandate unconstitutional. Not unexpected, and I think, very right on the law. But he also seems to have declared the whole law null and void, much further than the Virginia judge who also found the individual purchase . . . . Continue Reading »
And the winner is...Eggsploitation!This is a triumph for the Center for Bioethics and Culture (for which I am a compensated special consultant) generally, and its director, the indomitable Jennifer Lahl, specifically. Eggsploitation—which warns against the health dangers of egg . . . . Continue Reading »
From the very outset of the order, people have been criticizing the Jesuits. The Society of Jesus has long tended toward extremes that raise hackles. I’m no exception, I suppose, having skewered a few of the liberal Jesuits over the years, most recently Fr. Jim Keenan and Fr. Mark Massa, a . . . . Continue Reading »
Saturday night I sat down with two physicists from Union University and watched Charlton Heston in The Omega Man. The film is part of an unofficial apocalyptic trilogy which includes Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green.First thought: Heston was still rocking his own hair in . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on EerdWord, First Things senior editor R.R. Reno discusses his forthcoming book Fighting the Noonday Devil — and Other Essays Personal and Theological : We are not meant to leave things as they are; God commanded Adam and Eve to till and keep the garden and exercise dominion. Society and . . . . Continue Reading »
Very serious charges are being made that some Australian and UK medical students conduct intimate body exams on unconscious patients without consent. From the story:AUSTRALIAN medical students are carrying out intrusive procedures on unconscious and anaesthetised patients without gaining the . . . . Continue Reading »
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