Logic dictates that if you introduce a policy that restricts procreation in a culture that values boys over girls, you will end up with significantly fewer girls. The New Republic reminds us that t hat’s exactly what’s happened in China : “The one-child policy was instituted in an . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh, this is rich! During the campaign for Proposition 71, proponents promised that Californians would reap a cornucopia of benefits from borrowing $3 billion over 10 years to pay researchers in private companies and their business partners in universities to conduct human cloning and ESCR. And, they . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, I posted a note on the discovery of an ancient, pre-Christian tablet that includes mention of a messiah rising in three days. (For information on the conference held in Jerusalem today where this was discussed, click here .) Some have suggested my post asserted that the . . . . Continue Reading »
The RAND report demonstrating that contrary to the warnings of some among the blank check crowd, the USA is not falling behind in scinece (which I referenced here at SHS) is now the subject of a Nature Medicine editorial (no link available). Despite years of moaning that the Bush Administration is . . . . Continue Reading »
On Real Clear Politics, Cal Thomas writes that the Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of the United Kingdom has ruled that “Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.” And that includes the Islamic legal . . . . Continue Reading »
John Esposito is the leading voice today for those who think the likes of Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis make far too much of the religious and cultural differences between the West and the Islamic world. Esposito, the founding director of Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin . . . . Continue Reading »
The philanthropist Sir John Marks Templeton passed away today—a sad moment for all who benefited from his support and his ideas. Born in Tennessee, he attended Yale University and Oxford before becoming an enormously successful investor in world markets. Both his education in England and his . . . . Continue Reading »
I leave most of the Anglican-watching, Anglican-speculating to Jordan Hylden, but here’s a story that was left out of yesterday’s post. Over the weekend, reports came that “senior” bishops from the C of E had met with Catholic officials about swimming the Tiber en masse. . . . . Continue Reading »
“I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world—that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest . . . . Continue Reading »
Word engineering has always been intrinsic to the euthanasia movement. Always. Indeed, today mercy killing and euthanasia are synonyms thanks to the euthanasia movement of the late 19th Century. Before that, the term “good death” meant dying peacefully (and naturally) in a state of . . . . Continue Reading »
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