Mollie Hemingway writes about the way the media addresses the late Stan Musial’s religion. Most of the obituaries ignored it completely, but she focuses on how it’s handled in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Here we are told that, yes, Musial was religious, but that he
Dogs and wolves are pretty much identical genetically. And yet dogs make loveable pets, whereas wolves can almost never be domesticated. Why is that? Scientists may have figured that out. (more…)
Our church celebrated Sanctity of Life Sunday. After making a no-holds- barred attack on the pro-death mentality, our pastor made a turn that we don’t always hear when Christians talk about this topic: And especially on this Sanctity of Life Sunday we recognize how powerful
A Harvard geneticist is seeking a woman to be the surrogate mother of a Neanderthal baby. From the London Daily Mail: They’re usually thought of as a brutish, primitive species. So what woman would want to give birth to a Neanderthal baby? Yet this incredible
A president’s inauguration address can indicate his vision for his next term, rally the country, and make his play for the history books. President Obama’s speech had no soaring JFK moments (“Ask not what your country can do for you. . . .”) and even
We now have e-mail subscriptions to both posts and follow-up comments! That’s one of your requests that we were able to make happen. We’re still trying to figure out comment numbering. But we’re making progress. I’ve also got the hang of the new format, with
Today is the second inauguration of Barack Obama, who will be sworn into his second term at 11:30 a.m. ET. (Actually, he took his oath of office on Sunday, in accordance with the date specified in the Constitution, in the White House, but the public
You have probably heard about Manti Te’o, Notre Dame’s Heisman Trophy candidate, whose dying girlfriend turned out to involve an on-line relationship with a woman who didn’t exist. Now he is being accused of knowingly participating in the hoax to take advantage of the sob-story
One of the most awe-inspiring baseball players of all time died last Saturday, Stan “the Man” Musial. He was a great, great player for the St. Louis Cardinals with a lifetime batting average of .331. He was also celebrated for his good sportsmanship, his refusal
Today honors Martin Luther King, Jr., the man who said this: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
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