The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) would be laughable if it weren’t so expensive and engaged in funding immoral research with borrowed money that I and every other Californian will have to pay back. The latest shinanigan was exposed by the Foundation for Taxpayer and . . . . Continue Reading »
Mr Johnson should start a blog. That’s what I . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my pet peeves—yes, I know, I keep peeves like a crazy old man who keeps hundreds of cats—is off label prescribing. Off label prescribing allows a drug that has been approved for efficacy and safety for one condition, to be used instead to treat a different malady for which it has . . . . Continue Reading »
I cannot believe the disaster that is befalling the health care system in the UK. Now, it turns out that patients are leaving hospitals malnourished! From the story:Some 140,000 people are discharged from hospital while underweight every year, and most are never diagnosed or treated, nutritionists . . . . Continue Reading »
This is good. It is a human obligation—and a proper role of government—to ensure that our food animals are slaughtered humanely. There are rules and regulations in this regard and USDA inspectors at slaughter houses to maintain proper standards.Apparently, the Hallmark/Westland Meat . . . . Continue Reading »
A reader/interlocutor has chided me for being too hasty in condemning Archbishop Rowan’s shariah remarks, noting that one, and only one, system of civil law gets you exactly what is happening in Colorado—an attempt to curtail the Catholic Church’s freedom to hire whom it will. And . . . . Continue Reading »
The shamans of scientisim are growing increasingly strident. Yesterday, we discussed advocacy for creating a world authoritarianism to impose scientific consensus policies about global warming. Apparently, Dr. David Suzuki, the Canadian geneticist turned television star, has opined that politicians . . . . Continue Reading »
The Farrelly brothers are known for their profitable, occasionally droll, gross-out comedies, notably Kingpin , Dumb & Dumber , and There’s Something About Mary . In 1999, they wrote and directed the disastrously earnest, and bad, film Outside Providence , based largely on their personal . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s an interesting article in today’s New York Times on the head sacristan of Notre Dame de Paris, who is also the cathedral’s head bell-ringer. A small sample: Notre-Dame has 11 bells. The four in the north tower were cast in 1856 to replace older ones that were melted down . . . . Continue Reading »
Mollie Hemingway follows on up on the fallout from Rowan Williams’ declaration that “some form” of Shariah law is “inevitable” in Britain. Favorite headline: ” Has the Archbishop Gone Bonkers?” Gledhill comments on how “uncharacteristically . . . . Continue Reading »
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