So now we are being told by novelist Martin Amis that euthanasia is an “evolutionary inevitability.” From the story:Martin Amis is to campaign for the laws on assisted suicide to be reformed. The author, who caused an outcry last year when he called for euthanasia booths to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Clifford May on the war against the Christians : Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting” Jesus. Imagine if mosques were being bombed and . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Moore on racial justice and the “Godness of God” : The struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in this country wasn’t simply a “political” question. It wasn’t merely the question of, as Martin Luther King Jr. put it from before the Lincoln Memorial, . . . . Continue Reading »
“Fifty years after the break in relations, while Cuba is still ruled by a male, white, militaristic, totalitarian gerontocracy, Barack Obama is the president of the United States and Hillary Clinton the secretary of state,” writes a Yale professor who left Cuba at 17 in Exiled by Ike, . . . . Continue Reading »
Wondering why Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and Aurelius Prudentius Clemens seem to be the talk of the town lately? It’s because the February issue of First Things is arriving in mailboxes across America and all your friends have already read George Weigel’s chronicling of The End of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The puff biopic about Kevorkian won a Golden Globe this weekend, and The Corner asked for my reaction. I reiterated the facts about K that I have pointed out repeatedly for my entire 18 years of anti euthanasia advocacy. I won’t repeat those fully here—you can see them in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The great US national health care reform debate is now entering its second, and I think, climactic phase. For the next two years the Republicans and a few Democrats will attempt to “repeal, replace, and defund” Obamacare. The final decision will probably come with the 2012 . . . . Continue Reading »
While The civil rights movement was led by Christians, it is easy to forget how many believers—particularly in the South—did not support the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On this day set aside to honor this great leader we should read his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Saturdays ago our third (17) and I went to see The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ . It was playing at the Ambridge Family Theatre , a small theatre in a nearby town, which has about fourteen rows of eight seats each, facing a 12 x 6 screen, with an old-fashioned pressed tin ceiling. . . . . Continue Reading »
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