This is all so phony: Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society) has filed a suit to declare Montana’s law prohibiting assisted suicide to be unconstitutional as against Montana’s right to privacy. The suit seeks to declare that a terminally ill person has a right to assistance . . . . Continue Reading »
The problem with constructing a manifesto for postmodern conservatism is that principles, once propositionally articulated, have a way of organically untethering themselves from the experience out of which they were borne. So we idealize generalizations from our lived and pre-theoretical experience . . . . Continue Reading »
I should start off by confessing that this post isn’t at all topical, except insofar as Freddie has challenged the Pomocon stable to explain why postmodern conservative doesn’t just mean "a conservative who should know better" ( TM ). So, with that half-hearted . . . . Continue Reading »
It is still less than a year since the first human IPSCs were derived. One of its supposed downsides as a technique was the need to use retro viruses to effectuate the change from differentiated cell (e.g., skin, or other type of body cell) into pluritpotent stem cell. The fear was this could lead . . . . Continue Reading »
“Pugnacious” takes on quite literal meaning when applied to Russia’s prime minister. With his new video, “Let’s Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin,” the ex-KGB operative shows off his wicked awesome martial arts skills. In isolation this seems exhibitionistic enough, . . . . Continue Reading »
The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to kill rather than ease suffering. A new study, however, belies this notion. Having . . . . Continue Reading »
It turns out that medieval church windows made for the glory of God were also good for your health : The glaziers who created gold-painted stained glass windows for medieval churches in Europe inadvertently developed a solar-powered nanotech air-purification system. According to Zhu Huai Yong, an . . . . Continue Reading »
The Swiss have overtaken the Dutch as the prime harbingers of things to come in the Culture of Death. As it grants individual intrinsic dignity to plants, its Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to assisted suicide for the mentally ill. Now, a debate is opening, the end point of which is . . . . Continue Reading »
Touching on a subject all too neglected in this campaign, Laura Ingraham discusses abortion with Gov. Sarah Palin. . . . . Continue Reading »
Justin "Sandbox" Hart has written a diary accusing me and my fellow PoMoConers of hanging out in cloud-cuckoo land and thinking when we should be, like, leading GOTV efforts and . . . stuff. This makes complete sense, because as we all know the modern conservative movement is totally . . . . Continue Reading »
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