According to reports in the Arab media and Reuters, Saudi Arabia has convicted a Lebanese man of “evangelism” and sentenced him to six years in prison and 300 lashes. According to reports, the man, an Evangelical Christian, converted a Saudi woman in her 20s to Christianity and . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s Gosnell coverage, some of the nation’s most prominent media outlets called Gosnell’s victims “fetuses.” The New York Times wrote that “the defense battled over whether the fetuses Dr. Gosnell was charged with killing were alive when they . . . . Continue Reading »
Late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell has been convicted of first degree murder for killing babies after delivering them alive. The trial now moves into the penalty phase, and we wait to hear whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty. But Dr. Gosnell is only the front man; and the real trial . . . . Continue Reading »
And he got what was REALLY PROVOCATIVE —our Democrats are less progressive than conservative—without disagreeing with it. . . . . Continue Reading »
Kermit Gosnell has been found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder. Even if he receives the death sentence, Gosnell almost certainly will never face execution. As Charles Johnson of the Patriot News reported in September, Pennsylvania has one of the longest green miles in the country. . . . . Continue Reading »
The jury has found Kermit Gosnell guilty on three charges of first-degree murder of babies, according to reporter J. D. Mullane , and not guilty of a fourth murder charge. (Details on those murder charges here .) Judge Jeffrey Minehart had earlier dismissed three other first-degree murder charges . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. recalls Søren Kierkegaard’s Christian faith : If Kierkegaard’s Christianity creates dilemmas for the secular, it has proven equally vexing for his fellow believers. Kierkegaard was scandalized by the state of Christianity in his day, especially as expressed . . . . Continue Reading »
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaking at the University of Chicago this Saturday : Ginsburg, one of the most liberal members of the nation’s high court, spoke Saturday at the University of Chicago Law School. Ever since the decision, she said, momentum has been on abortion opponents’ side, . . . . Continue Reading »
For Pope Francis, “the devil is not a myth, but a real person.” In one of his morning homilies, reports Sandro Magister , Francis said: “With his death and resurrection, Jesus has ransomed us from the power of the world, from the power of the devil, from the power of . . . . Continue Reading »
Yosel Tiefenbrun is a rabbi of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and an apprentice tailor at Maurice Sedwell, the distinguished Savile Row house operated by Andrew Ramroop (himself a somewhat unusual figure on the Row). Tiefenbrun’s unique combination of classic style and hasidic Judaism (he . . . . Continue Reading »
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