1. The conference at BYU on OUR CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS provoked all sorts of thought, even in ME. Let me begin by thinking a bit about the Progressive view of the Constitution. 2. One view, as we’ve said, is that our original Constitution has been largely displaced by the PROGRESSIVE one. The . . . . Continue Reading »
This has to be one of my favourite Advent hymns, a versification of Isaiah 40:1-5 set to the Genevan tune for Psalm 42. Here is a wonderful choral version arranged by David Ashley . . . . Continue Reading »
This story stunned me: It is SOP for legislators to put a “severability clause” into legislation, so that if part of a law is found unconstitutional, the rest of it can remain in effect. But Obamacare has no such clause. This could have the most profound consequences.Lack of . . . . Continue Reading »
I was reading Planet Gore over at National Review’s website and an item by Chris Horner caught my attention. A global warming hysteric named George Dvorsky has decided we need to do away with national sovereignty and democracy in the name of fighting the coming meltdown. From . . . . Continue Reading »
Carbon dioxide continues to increase in the atmosphere, but the rate of warming is a trickle. That doesn’t meet with scientific expectations! What’s the holdup in the meltdown? Pollution! From the story:Global warming has slowed in the last decade, according to the Met . . . . Continue Reading »
A Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, who writes from the relatively conservative side of the street (she writes in Canada, after all), declares the death of global warming hysteria and urges environmentalists to save their movement—of which she is a part as a director of the anti nuke . . . . Continue Reading »
A free Southern Sudan will be bad news for Darfur , according to Foreign Policy . Someday Israel will have to say “no” to the United States and make an alliance with India, according to an Israeli academic and lawyer. Iraqi Christians are still fleeing the country , as Islamic . . . . Continue Reading »
1. April 11 1954: Most boring day of 20th century Researchers claim they have ‘officially’ discovered the most boring day of the 20th century . . . April 11 1954. A team of Cambridge scientists say the day was devoid of any major news events or even the birth or death of any famous . . . . Continue Reading »
Medicare is in deep trouble because it is a single payer health care system that seeks to cut costs by, among other ways, restricting physician and facility compensation. As a consequence, we are seeing the ongoing collapse of the system as doctors restrict their patient load and cease providing . . . . Continue Reading »
We live in a strange era in which Jefferson’s “right to life” supposedly has a concomitant “right to death.” At least, that will be the case if the European Court of Human Rights rules that Germany violated the right of a woman with disabilities to obtain a lethal . . . . Continue Reading »
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