Science may have come up with a solution to the embryonic stem cell debate that allows for the creation and use of pluripotent stem cells without the ethical baggage that comes along with the destruction of human life. That's the good news. The bad news is that the media is still not as careful with […]
I wrote last week that the New York Times was guilty of journalistic malpractice. Behind-the-scenes efforts by anti-abortion advocates and even its own public editor, Byron Calame, failed to remind the paper's editors about those antiquated ideas of honesty and accuracy. However, the full light of public scorn that comes with an article in The […]
The New York Times has a serious, deeply rooted, institutional problem: It's filled to the brim with left-liberal journalists, editors and executives who too often abandon basic journalistic principals when they conflict with their political orthodoxy. Sunday's column by public editor Byron Calame addressed the April 9 New York Times Magazine story by Jack Hitt, […]
Patterico has posted an interesting hypothetical that goes to the heart of much of the abortion debate. Assume the following facts. The fetus is viable. A doctor testifies that the safest method of abortion is to begin the delivery, and then abort the fetus. On cross-examination, he is asked whether delivery would be safer still […]
If any reporter or columnist had thrown softballs like these at President Bush, you'd have the journalistic establishment hyperventilating with outrage: You’re presented as a wealthy woman from San Francisco when you’re really this middle-class kid from Baltimore … How do you get more of who you are across? You get very high marks for […]
Scalia says Constitution silent on abortion, race in school Unfortunately, the Associtated Press did not run a word search on the Constitution to verify Scalia's statement. I watched part of the "debate" while flipping back and forth between CSPAN and the Chargers' demolition of the San Francisco 49ers. The video is available on the front […]
Monday's New York Times editorial page comments on the upcoming Supreme Court term in what can only be described as ominous terms. Most of the editorial is liberal boilerplate, advocating the respect of precedent when the precedent is liberal (partial birth abortion) and encouraging the court to be activist when the result would be supporting […]
The New York Times yesterday decried the bill that passed the Senate the other day prohibiting people from taking minor girls across state lines for abortions without parental permission as "mean." This is not a suprise. Better than 3/4ths of Americans support bills like this, but the Times editorial page is so far out in […]
The Senate yesterday passed a bill that would make it illegal for someone to transport an underage girl across a state border for an abortion in an attempt to circumvent a state's parental notification laws. This is really a no-brainer. The vast majority of the public favors parental notification laws, and it's the extremists at […]
There are many bills that have passed President Bush's desk in the past six years that he should've vetoed -- the McCain-Feingold bill and many pork-laden spending bills come immediately to mind -- but today the president finally used the veto pen. Bush's veto of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is the right […]