The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a badly written law that made it a crime, essentially, to advertise to assist suicide but not actually do the deed. Bad law led to an unforunate, but I think correct, legal ruling. But it left Georgia as a wild, wild, West of assisted suicide with no . . . . Continue Reading »
Having tired of death, I turn to taxes. . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s be honest here. The Ron Paul phenomenon stems from the Iraqi and Afghan wars to which he has consistently been against. There is good reason why some Paul supporters come from a large segment of veterans of these wars. He was always against these wars, and people in the military . . . . Continue Reading »
The Journal of Medical Ethics prints many articles that illustrate vividly just where many members of the increasingly radical bioethics movement would take us. Most recently, it published an article stating that infanticide should be permitted—regardless of the health of . . . . Continue Reading »
Yet again, poor do-gooder journalists, and this time, climate Scientists too, who only ever do good, have been fooled into thinking that a concocted document is an authentic one, a document that would have made certain “conservatives” (global warming skeptics, actually) look very bad . . . . Continue Reading »
The welfare state consists of a network of public, financial benefits originally established to even out the boom and bust extremes of the business cycle. In the United States, the welfare state got its start with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and continued with President Lyndon . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Steven M. Barr sends us a link to this interactive feature , which attempts to convey some sense of the scale of the universe from the galactic to the quantum level. Check it out for a dizzying reminder of both our own stature and the intricacies which surround us. . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Joe Carter : In order to make sure gays and lesbians are adequately represented on the judicial bench, the state of California is requiring all judges and justices to reveal their sexual orientation, reports The Weekly Standard . This is of course astoundingly invasive and rather . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on Rick Santorum and secular natural law : Rick Santorum recently criticized Obama’s worldview as a “phony theology not based on the Bible.” A few days ago, the Drudge Report resurrected a 2008 speech in which Santorum warned that Satan has it in . . . . Continue Reading »
Christine Baumgarthuber of the delightful Austerity Kitchen blog has a column on how people slept in pre-industrial societies. Instead of a single eight-hour interval, most people had a “first” and “second” sleep: The idea of first and second sleep derives from a form of . . . . Continue Reading »
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