So we hear a lot about the European way of life that should be shunned. It is a way of life that is unsustainable and which leads to dependency on state provisions. Perhaps this is the case, but if you were to ask the ordinary European with his troubled earned pension, you would hear a defiance . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh good grief. As I recounted in detail in Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World, the human cloning/embryonic stem cell research company, Advanced Cell Technology, has been masterful at getting itself—and its chief scientist Robert Lanza—in the news. Here, for example, . . . . Continue Reading »
The world’s leading blogging reviewers gave my MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY an A+, a higher grade than the one earned by many timeless classics and perennial favorites. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a short book review of the interesting novel, The Leftovers, in the current First Things. Here it is for those who might be interested in reading a different kind of post “Rapture” novel. (no link):No angel’s horn blew. The Risen Christ did not return with a . . . . Continue Reading »
Believe it or not, I had a grandmother who used to goof around with her grandkids about the “Girls in France who did the ‘coochie coochie’ dance.” It was all a joke and we kids (me and my sister and cousins) loved it. It was all in fun when we were young. We kids thought it was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Journal of the American Medical Association published an article by Douglas B. White, MD and law professor Thaddeus M. Pope, arguing that intractable futile care disputes belong in court. (In a medical futility dispute, doctors seek to withdraw life-sustaining treatment over the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Josh Barro (who I believe once interned for Romney’s campaign for governor of Massachusetts) has a must read on Bain and Romney. 2. Very interesting set of comments by Peter and commenter Art Deco in the below thread on Bob Dole and 1996. My take is that, given . . . . Continue Reading »
In a New York Times Op-Ed , history professor Sara Ritchey makes much of the fact that married Anglican clergy will become Catholic priests under the new Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Ritchey provides some useful historical background that outlines the early medieval shift to an . . . . Continue Reading »
The Portsmouth Abbey School will be hosting a conference by the Portsmouth Institute June 22-24th, entitled Modern Science, Ancient Faith . The speakers, including William Dembski of Baylor University, Kenneth Miller from Brown, Abbot James Wiseman, O.S.B., of Catholic U. and St. Anselm College, . . . . Continue Reading »
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