I prefer not to overreact to jobs reports, but today’s unemployment and job creation news has Obama looking weaker than ever. This would be a good time for a Republican who has shown the ability to win over Democratic-leaning voters, take on the spending interests, and produce a . . . . Continue Reading »
LA Times’ business columnist, David Lazarus (who I knew slightly when he worked at the SF Chronicle), writes about a man who just died of cancer after a private insurance company refused to pay for an experimental treatment that could have extended his life. (Note, the company paid for . . . . Continue Reading »
Terry Mattingly provide a useful thought experiment for journalists : Let’s say that a bunch of retired journalists from the Los Angeles Times got together and, with a few converts who yearn for the good old journalism days in that great city, form a news organization that we will call, oh, . . . . Continue Reading »
End Human Trafficking: A Contemporary Slavery Public Discourse , Laura J. Lederer The Biggest Theological Debate of the Next Twenty Years Theology Matters , Andrew Wilson Child sex abuse convictions rise 60% in six years The Guardian Transgender 10 Year-Old Jackie, Born As a Boy, Happier As A Girl . . . . Continue Reading »
” One-child policy a surprising boon for China girls ” That’s the headline the AP chose for their article on China’s population control policy. And this is the opening: Tsinghua University freshman Mia Wang has confidence to spare. Asked what her home city of Benxi in . . . . Continue Reading »
Is anyone surprised? According to the British Medical Association Journal 10%—a likely under count—of suicides involve people with physical illnesses. The Telegraph has this excerpt:At least 10 per cent of suicides that take place in England involve people with either a chronic or . . . . Continue Reading »
CNN’s Belief blog has a brief interview with Keith Ellison , the first Muslim elected to Congress. I’ve always been fascinated by stories of people converting from Christianity to other faiths, so I had high expectations for the article (Ellison was raised a Catholic and went to . . . . Continue Reading »
Color me quite nervous, after watching the trailer of the forthcoming film version of Coriolanus linked to here. It seems to be the tired old shtick where you adapt Shakespeare’s Romans or Danes or Scots by dressing them up in modern military uniforms, which tends to convey the idea that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Wayne Pacelle is the head of the Humane Society of the United States. He is very slick, sophisticated, and runs HSUS as if it is only about animal welfare. I don’t believe it for a second. HSUS works diligently to make meat raising more expensive and morally marginalized, . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Russel E. Saltzman addresses sexual identity and identity in Christ: Over the course of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries homosexuality came to be viewed as a biological or psychological anomaly. What was once regarded as an unusually nasty sin became a . . . . Continue Reading »
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