Thomas Friedman, Pro-Lifer?
One can always treat it as a sign of hope when a prominent columnist earnestly tries to claim the label “pro-life.” It must mean, at least, that the label is ...
AP Abortion Data
The Associated Press recently revisited U.S. abortion data, a troubled area of public-health reporting with significant gaps and omissions, and reported persistence of what are now embedded patterns. A majority ...
Our Empathy-Incapable Politics about Late-Term Abortion
“What are your feelings, when you kill so huge a creature — when you take so vast a life?”
“Why, I feel a richer man,” said Allen laughing: then, after a ...
Testing Ourselves: Researchers Simplify Prenatal Genetic Scans
Consider for a moment any random collection of 20 people of your acquaintance. Include your banker. The captain of your high-school football team. The mentally ill veteran on the street ...
Time for a Reprieve for Baby Girls
The House of Representatives has just voted 246–168 in favor of H.R. 3541, Representative Trent Franks’s bill to ban sex-selection abortions in the United States. While the margin supporting the ...
Final Prediction
Madonna will alter her halftime lyrics and sing “Tebow, don’t preach.” Fans ignore, Giants by 4.
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Still Looking for a Gift?
The BBC video catalog offers a treasure trove of great adaptations of English fiction (and quite a few that have not aged well in either style or production quality), but ...
Margaret Sanger and the War on Compassion
‘The movement she started will grow to be, a hundred years from now, the most influential of all time in controlling man’s destiny on earth.”
The famed novelist H. G. Wells ...
Giving Thanks
Once again, another year is almost past, and I haven’t gotten what I deserved. That alone is cause for thanksgiving. I’ve driven over the speed limit 50 times and gotten ...
Remembering Monroe
His nickname was Monroe. According to my cousin Joe King, the reason was that he could recite the Monroe Doctrine from memory.
That feat certainly is worthy of a nickname. At ...