Reuel Marc Gerecht, formerly an Iran specialist for the CIA and now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, now thinks that Islam deserves serious study as a subject of strategic interest. “God may be kaput in most of the West, but he has hardly been reduced to the status of . . . . Continue Reading »
The last semester of my senior year at college, I was staring down the barrel of what seemed like years upon years of graduate school. At the time, with my senior thesis dragging on, and given the fact that I’d been in school continuously since kindergarten, the prospect didn’t seem all . . . . Continue Reading »
You have to love the headline: “Military Now Says . . . ” Yeah, right. We’re onto the military and their filthy lies. First they unleash The Mist . Then they silence Dennis Kucinich . Now they’re guiding alien intelligence out of Texas airspace and into another space-time . . . . Continue Reading »
“As a child of divorce you’re always missing somebody,” says Elizabeth Marquardt of the Institute for American Values . Missing a mother, missing a father . . . missing God. In a first-of-its-kind study on the spiritual lives of children of divorce, Ms. Marquardt found that young . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve heard of the odor of sanctity, but this carries things rather too far . . . . . Continue Reading »
is now becoming a sport . OK, it was a roast , it was a roast of sportscasters (two guys I like, by the way), and it’s easy to go too far. My question is: Why was Jesus the object of Dana Jacobson’s obscenity-laden rant? Because Notre Dame’s coach happened to be in the audience? . . . . Continue Reading »
Anyone who believes that Bush funding embryonic stem cell research with leftover IVF embryos would satisfy “the scientists” just aren’t paying attention to the constant whining by Brave New Britain’s scientists who have what amounts to a virtual blank check. Regulators there . . . . Continue Reading »
Now here’s an interesting blog , one that addresses what probably remains a much-too-unremarked-upon phenomenon within the Church. Definitely not for theologians of glory or health-and-wealthers. . . . . Continue Reading »
The animal rights movement claims to be peaceable—despite the terrorists in its midst. But how peaceable can it be when so many advocates use vividly violent imagery in their advocacy. From an editorial, Animal Rights & Ethical Veganism,” by one Gary Yourofsky, published in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The wonderful adult stem cell advance that has liberated some organ transplant patients from anti-rejection drugs—which I posted about here—is yet another illustration of the ongoing need to use animals in medical research. From the story:[Dr. David] Sachs first tried this approach . . . . Continue Reading »
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