Pro-life activist Marjorie Dannenfelser serves notice on the Republican party, which increasingly seems to be trying to play down the abortion issue. In the meantime, the lawmakers who are stepping up to fight abortion are pro-life Democrats such as Rep. Bart Stupak, who is blocking
Still-communist China, which has emerged from the global financial meltdown stronger than ever as the USA and other countries depend on its money, is asserting itself and feeling its power: China’s government has embraced an increasingly anti-Western tone in recent months and is adopting policies
In a bid to get more organs to transplant, the federal government is funding a program to remove organs in emergency rooms as soon as the heart stops beating. Nevermind about brain death. The sooner hearts, lungs, and livers are removed, the better they work,
How many times have you read the story of the Prodigal Son? How many sermons have you heard about it? Do you think you have seen everything there is to see in that parable? Well, check out what Pastor Douthwaite did with this text in
Catholic journalist T. J. Reid makes a challenging connection for us pro-lifers: Increasing health-care coverage is one of the most powerful tools for reducing the number of abortions — a fact proved by years of experience in other industrialized nations. All the other advanced, free-market
Last week’s post about teaching mathematics classically provoked some excellent comments. Here is one of mine, responding to the question of why the liberal arts include astronomy and not physics, biology, chemistery, etc.: Great, helpful, and important comments! Classical educators–here are some splendid ideas. Run
Those who are bringing back classical education as an alternative to the deadends evident in John Dewey’s progressive education are familiar with the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric, the three liberal arts that lead to a mastery of language. The other four liberal arts, the
Colleen LaRose is a white, middle-class suburbanite from Pennsylvania. She became a terrorist recruiter known on the Internet as Jihad Jane. She was arrested for her involvement in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist whose caricature of Mohammed inflamed the Islamic world. from BBC
Mollie Hemingway writes about media coverage of sex-selective abortion, particularly in China and India where families want sons and so get an abortion if their in utero baby is a girl. This even has acquired a name, something to add to our vocabulary: gendercide. Mollie
A New York lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban restaurants from cooking with salt. Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt
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