I was contacted over the weekend by the BBC. A radio program was dealing with the lawsuit being brought by Debbie Purdy to allow her assisted suicide. Purdy has MS and wants her husband to be able to take her to Switzerland for assisted suicide. But since he is not a citizen, she fears there could . . . . Continue Reading »
The myopia! In their misguided drive to squeeze every possible drop of profit from health care financing, health insurance companies are sealing their own doom with policies that restrict access to coverage. The latest comes from the American Medical News that reports companies intend to shrink . . . . Continue Reading »
I can hear the sound of the cash register: The Brit tabloids—aided greatly by Drudge and a more than willing pregnant transsexual Thomans Beatie—continue the PR blitz of the female pregnant man who is soon to give birth (in only 4 weeks!!!). See the bare-skinned pictures!!! They want . . . . Continue Reading »
Any health insurance reform that seeks to maintain a private system will have to stop the companies from cherry picking their applicants. Otherwise stories such as this will drive the American people into the arms of a single payer or other form of public health care system: When the Golden Rule . . . . Continue Reading »
This report is a bit vague but apparently there is a futile care case in Alaska with lawyers with the Alliance Defense Fund preventing the hospital from forcibly removing a patient from care. From the World Net Daily report: The Alaska Supreme Court has granted a motion sought by an attorney working . . . . Continue Reading »
This could be the early stages of some very good news for Parkinson’s patients. Two years ago SHS readers learned that human paralyzed spinal cord injury patients have had feeling restored with their own nasal mucosa stem cells—a story utterly ignored by an MSM that would have shouted . . . . Continue Reading »
Coming back to the office after the conference on ecclesial reconciliation at St. Vladimir’s, I came across two news stories on the topic. The National Catholic Register reports that Mar Bawai Soro, a bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East suspended for his views on the primacy of the . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the perks of being a junior fellow here is that it opens doors to interesting events. This morning I was fortunate to visit St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, where the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius are hosting a conference called “Rome, Constantinople and . . . . Continue Reading »
It has become commonplace to say that environmentalism is a new religion. One reads it everywhere, from friends and foes alike. Typical is Nigel Lawson, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his new book, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming : “The new religion of . . . . Continue Reading »
Frequent First Things contributor Alan Jacobs has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal , ” Too Much Faith in Faith .” It’s a provocative thesis—that Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and all the other atheism-pushers uncritically attribute too large of a role to religion. . . . . Continue Reading »
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