Unaware that acting on his convictions was a bad career move, former Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Peter Vidmar resigned from his position as chef de mission of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. His sin? Attending a couple of rallies on behalf of Proposition 8 and giving money to an . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with you, Matt , that there are several questions surrounding this issue that, while disturbing, are disputable. “Should we allow torture?” and “Is torture effective?” are two examples. But the question of whether waterboarding is torture is not one of them. There is . . . . Continue Reading »
Unbelievable. Andrew Barnes tried to access suicide tourism in Switzerland because he had been diagnosed as terminally ill. He wasn’t, and in fact, has since recovered.You’d think such a near miss would cause him some pause about the dangers of euthanasia. After all, if he . . . . Continue Reading »
Krauthammer’s column today is about immigration, but it’s also about political civility. It makes me wonder if the best way to become truly civil isn’t precisely to stop being “civil” as that concept is now defined, not by becoming uncivil but by striving for a . . . . Continue Reading »
Not to seem like I’m picking on Joe, but I’ll point out a few things in connection with his post below on whether waterboarding “worked” and helped us find Osama bin Laden. 1. Michael Mukasey, former attorney general, has said that John McCain is wrong about the efficacy of . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette—no fan of Sarah Palin—has a blog out today that points out how abysmally Palin was treated when she first emerged on the national political stage. I have said that I believe much of the irrational, spittle spewing hatred of Palin originates with the birth of . . . . Continue Reading »
Joel Heng Hartse, a frequent music critic for Christianity Today , muses about coming of age in the heyday of Christian pop music: Really, my concept of “Christian music,” which begins in about 1980 and ends in 2000 (around the time I got bored with it), is nothing but a snapshot. It . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, John McCain took to the Senate floor to set the record straight about waterboarding and the intelligence that led us to Osama bin Laden: With so much misinformation being fed into such an essential public debate as this one, I asked the Director of Central Intelligence, Leon Panetta, for . . . . Continue Reading »
The NEJM has long been off the cliff when it comes to medical ethics. But now, it wants to sacrifice constitutionalism and representative governance on the altar of controlling healthcare costs by expanding the powers of IPAB over the entire health care sector.The misnamed Medicare Independent . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe, whatever the case might be for punctuating as the British do , the explanation for the ubiquity of the British style on the internet is surely not the necessities of correct computer coding . How many ordinary bloggers have ever written a line of code in their lives? As for Ben . . . . Continue Reading »
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