I know I should be skeptical of popular science reporting (much less glorified press releases ), but until Stephen Barr clarifies that this is much ado about nothing I’m gonna go ahead and let myself believe that an undergrad intern really did find some of the universe’s “missing . . . . Continue Reading »
Chuck Donovan chronicles the pro-life trend in state legislatures : While official Washington occupies itself with soaring deficits, health care costs and the status of the war on terror, state lawmakers have been busy passing law after law challenging one or more core holdings of the high . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The Democrat won in NY-26 easily with 48% of the vote. Republicans are blind if they don’t regard this as one piece of evidence among many of a momentum switch. They’re losing the debate over Medicare. People don’t want it turned into a voucher—or defined . . . . Continue Reading »
The authoritarian attempt to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco—no religious exemptions allowed—stirred quite a hornet’s nest here at SHS when I first brought it up. Having paid attention to the comments, particularly those in support of the ban, I am more convinced than ever . . . . Continue Reading »
Arguably the second oldest and most persistent Christian heresy is gnosticism (the first is legalism). Early forms of it were condemned in Colossians and possibly other Pauline letters, and also in 1 John. Gnosticism splits the “spiritual” world from the visible material world, saying . . . . Continue Reading »
Wow. Pig is an SHS commenter:How Richard Dawkins spends his . . . . Continue Reading »
The Indian crisis of sex selection abortion is worsening. From the AP story:More and more Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female is on the way, according to a new study published Tuesday. The decline in the number of girls is more . . . . Continue Reading »
Head global warming hysteric Al Gore does terrible harm to the cause about which he espouses so passionately. Not only is he a supreme hypocrite in the carbon intensive way he lives and the money he makes off the issue—as he accuses his opponents of venal motives—but his beyond . . . . Continue Reading »
In yesterday’s “On the Square” column, Families and False Prophets , I wrote about the effects of . . . what’s the polite word . . . fanciful predictions of the future, such as that famously offered by the radio preacher Harold Camping. Which didn’t come true, forcing . . . . Continue Reading »
Politicians continue to keep sex scandals in the news. But according to sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox , infidelity is not the norm among married men in America: Although the institution of marriage in the United States has fallen on hard times in recent years—for instance, the marriage rate . . . . Continue Reading »
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