“Obviously, the way people ‘sell themselves’ has a lot to do with creating certain illusions, creating positive impressions and that is what interested me in reading the personals in the New York Review of Books, which sounded completely implausible and unbelievable. My . . . . Continue Reading »
This piece by George Will on why it should be neither Mitt nor Newt got me thinking of the future four years from now. John Hunstman must be a genius on the long play. He comes out as the conservative who is willing to rattle rhetorically the conservative bones. He makes outrageous statements about . . . . Continue Reading »
The proposal: Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., an outspoken pro-life advocate, is preparing to do battle again on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, he’ll chair a House hearing in support of his latest legislative effort, the Prenatal NonDiscrimination Act (PreNDA). The measure would ban abortions done on . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in 2003, Holly Paterson died, age 18, died from septic shock after taking the abortion pill known as RU 486. Since then, her father Monty has researched the safety of what is sometimes called “medical abortion.” From the SF Chronicle story (link behind paywall . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the aphorisms attributed to Martin Luther in German folklore states that after a man falls off his horse on the left side, the next time he falls off it will be on the right side. In his gracious reply to what was, I admit, a provocatively worded critique of his post on engineering in . . . . Continue Reading »
But who knows what the future holds in store? Reading op-eds about the principle choices to which we seem to have been reduced in the G.O.P. primaries reminds me of the misgivings I’ve long had about Newt Gingrich. Consider this from the estimable Charles Krauthammer : Gingrich has his . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed the “Liverpool Care Pathway” here before. The LCP is a procedure wherein patients suffering intractable pain are permitted to be sedated. But the Protocol soon was abused. Rather than being a guidance, some doctors used it as a paint-by-the-numbers kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
If one of the new male sperm meets and unites with an egg cell, a new life begins. From The Gift of Life , a pamphlet published in 1951 by Planned Parenthood. How broadly, though, do we want to use the adjective “Christian”? I don’t make Christian art: I’m a . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column, R.R. Reno considers the future of social democracy : Over the last fifty years social democratic regimes have evolved and adjusted to contain and moderate these instabilities, which at every juncture was a good thing. However, as forest managers now know, if we . . . . Continue Reading »
David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush, wonders aloud: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? The German weekly Der Spiegel carries this article in its English-language edition: A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses . Even if this is rhetorical overkill, the Republican . . . . Continue Reading »
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