“Until he reached the White House, Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that the United States apply more pressure on Sudan so as to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur and elsewhere. Yet, as president, Mr. Obama and his aides have caved, leaving Sudan gloating at American weakness,” . . . . Continue Reading »
It is twenty years since the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched. Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder in manufacturing the main mirror that had to be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the telescope), the . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2007, the Vatican set out to become the first carbon neutral sovereign state in the world by reducing its CO2 emissions and planting a forest in Hungary to offset whatever CO2 it did emit over the course of a year. But to date, Catholic News Service reports the trees have not been planted and . . . . Continue Reading »
During one of the greatest financial crises in our nation’s history, senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent their days looking at online pornography. No, seriously. They were looking at porn all day . According to a memo obtained by the AP , the SEC’s inspector . . . . Continue Reading »
The Catholic News Agency reports that an Argentinian man, who was abandoned by his mother at birth, recently reunited with his mother through Facebook: Mauricio, 23, was abandoned by his mother at birth. In an effort to find her, he created a Facebook group called “I’m searching for my . . . . Continue Reading »
The Treasury Department may be uglyfying our currency , but the portraits on the bills are being prettied up to meet our modern standards of beauty. Newsweek asked New York plastic surgeon surgeon Dr. David Hidalgo to examine the extreme makeovers . Here’s what he has to say about the updates . . . . Continue Reading »
He’s back. Jack Kevorkian is again on the front pages above the fold. And he’s making the rounds of interviews. He might think he has died and gone to heaven—except he doesn’t believe in heaven. After death, he has said, “you stink and rot.” With the release of the HBO . . . . Continue Reading »
In Paying a Price for Bias , Inside Higher Ed reports that a Baptist university in Kentucky lost state money for a pharmacy school after the state’s supreme court ruled against them, in a case brought by a homosexualist lobby group. It would be nice if a conscientiously held moral view, . . . . Continue Reading »
Two weeks ago, I wrote here about a proposed new “crime against peace” called ecocide, deemed to be equivalent to genocide. I will have more to say about that matter soon, but in the meantime, it seems increasingly clear that—hand-in-hand with personalizing . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago, I castigated the creators of the mega crude Family Guy for using the V-word to make fun of Terri Schiavo. Using the word “vegetable” to describe anything but carrots or squash—in other words, to describe any human being—is hateful and intended to . . . . Continue Reading »
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