Vermont is San Francisco as a state, and thus it always bears watching when its part time legislature is in session. First, as I predicted, Vermont did not legalize assisted suicide. That’s good.Second, it did establish a publicly funded health system. From the Boston Globe . . . . Continue Reading »
Although college students in America have been majoring in secularism for decades, a college in California is the first to offer an official major in secular studies : Colleges and universities have long offered majors in religion or theology. But with more and more people now saying they have no . . . . Continue Reading »
As Congress moves to consider renewal of the main federal education law this summer, the administration has been working behind the scenes to incorporate language that would give the U.S. Department of Education centralized control over K-12 curriculum across the country , including a national test . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Hitchens may be the greatest living English-writing writer, at least in the short form. I envy his raw prose power and find him compelling, even when I disagree vigorously with, or am cut by, his views. (We’ve had two previous discussions around Hitchens at SHS, the first, . . . . Continue Reading »
In what is sure to be a blow to the anti-relativity-theory folks *, NASA recently ran an experiment designed to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity —specifically the “mass distorts spacetime” part: Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square, David Mills observes that many European liberals are wringing their hands over the killing of Osama bin Laden: Few would definitely condemn the American action, bin Laden being too obviously the enemy even for the most sentimental of liberals to excuse him, as so . . . . Continue Reading »
“I had hunted down this specialist like a crazed groupie and had really badgered his office for just about a year to convince him to come out and consult with Max and consult for us. I thought he was really going to give me that key — that one piece of advice and help that was going . . . . Continue Reading »
A few months ago, as noted here at SHS, a European Court magistrate ruled that ESCR products are not patentable because they are an industrial use of the human embryo, which is not permitted under European law. Since then, the usual advocacy push back has furiously commenced in science . . . . Continue Reading »
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