I actually watched some local and network news before the NCAA national championship game came on, and I was a little surprised at a repeated formulation that kept coming up when discussing the late Pope John Paul II. The phrase was something along the lines that people loved the Pope, despite the fact that he […]
I'm writing another post on the Schiavo debate in parallel with this one. In it I praised Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer for making one of the more statesman-like speeches of the evening. Then he said this: Because, like birth, death will come to us all. Ummm...not according to your party, Rep. Hoyer. Millions of people […]
A Philadelphia judge last week dismissed criminal charges against four antigay activists who were arrested at a gay and lesbian street festival. In dismissing the case, which attracted national attention, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Pamela Dembe said that the demonstrators simply had been exercising their First Amendment rights. Calling the United States "one of […]
Over at Tech Central Station, Michael Fumento updates us on the "surprising" news that researchers are making impressive strides in adult stem cell research, and not so much in embryonic stem cell research. [Cardiologist Douglas] Losordo bemoans the broad-based assault by ESC researchers and the media to exaggerate the potential of ESC research while downplaying […]
From the family that brought you that famous line comes a "clarification" of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's apparently conciliatory remarks on the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent remarks on abortion, in which she expressed support for parental notification laws, have provoked concern among some advocates of abortion rights, with […]
...that some quasi-religious nuts were collecting fingernail clippings because they believe that hangnails have souls and giving them a religious burial. Would this outrage you? Would you go running to the press complaining about the cult of the cuticle being insensitive to your feelings? You wouldn't. You'd just laugh it off. If those wackos want […]
California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, and outlined the tenets of the Democratic Party: Budget deficits are "immoral," partial-birth abortion is not.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, an "abortion rights supporter" in journalism parlance, has an interesting post on abortion and the "duty to rescue." In layman's terms, it's the concept that being a good Samaritan cannot be required of someone. I'm not going to address Glenn's position on abortion -- it's well-thought out and I'm not going to […]
Barring any unexpected, last-minute developments, the GOP will have a 55-44-1 majority in Congress' upper chamber. After President Bush and Vice President Cheney helped Pennsylvania's senior Senator Arlen Specter fend off a strong primary challenge from conservative Pat Toomey, Specter has decided to bite the hand that feeds him. Specter, as presumptive chairman of the […]
Robert P. George has an excellent, short article over at National Review Sen. John Kerry and the Democrats' big lie about stem cells. The claim that "we have the option" of curing Parkinson's disease, diabetes, etc. with embryonic stem cells is outrageous. No one knows when — or even whether or not — human embryonic […]