When animals endanger human health and welfare, sometimes we have to get lethal. That time sure seems to have come in India, where (as reported here previously) macaques have overpopulated Delhi for many years. Bureaucrats have tried to avoid acting lethally, most recently bu using a . . . . Continue Reading »
Alan Jacobs explains why we can’t teach students to love reading : I don’t think of the distinction between readers and nonreaders—better, those who love reading and those who don’t so much—in terms of class, which may be a function of my being a teacher of literature . . . . Continue Reading »
The Balanced Budget Amendment: What Would Hamilton Say? Public Discourse , Carson Holloway S&P Strips U.S. of Top Credit Rating Wall Street Journal , Damian Paletta and Matt Phillips Governor Rick Perry Leads Christians in Prayer At Texas Rally Los Angeles Times , Paul West Protests Grow In . . . . Continue Reading »
The last day I was bored was August 17, 2007. I remember the exact date because it was the day before my wife gave me an iPhone for my birthday. My iPhone took away every excuse I had to be bored. If I was standing in line at the post office I could now use my ESV app to read the Bible. If I was . . . . Continue Reading »
My uncle died of Alzheimer’s. I hate that I felt the need to give my bona fides, but in an age where emotional narratives usually rule over reason, it is sometimes necessary.The Huffington Post published a piece by religious lefty April L. Bogle, that basically says we should kill people . . . . Continue Reading »
Allan Bloom wrote a beautiful book on love and friendship. In this book he examined issues that emerge between lovers and friends. He also provided a shorthand for those who merely skim great writers, but who have in their actual lives experienced great love and friendship in their lives (but in . . . . Continue Reading »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued proposed rules to improve and modernize the legal ethical criteria that govern federally funded human research. From the press release:Revisions to the current regulations are now being considered because HHS believes these changes . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The Story of Everything °°°°°° 2. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently °°°°°° 3. The Saddest Movie Scene of All Time In 1979, director Franco Zeffirelli remade a 1931 Oscar-winning film called The Champ, about a washed-up boxer trying to . . . . Continue Reading »
A tragic letter was published in the current British Medical Journal (no link). It is from a Dutch doctor who has twice euthanized patients, but now prefers terminal sedation, in part, because of the stress killing causes her. She ends her letter on a poignant note. From the BMJ . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted earlier about how the Obamacarians have now paid off political allies by forcing every private health insurance policy to pay for a broad array of women’s “reproductive” services—for free. This is how banks are broken and healthcare becomes . . . . Continue Reading »
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