The mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, as well as four of his other conspirators, will be tried in New York City. The Obama administration has decided to try them in criminal court rather than by a military tribunal in Guantanamo. Do
More on the Health Care Reform bill as a way to reduce the number of abortions in light of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that would prevent both public and private insurance companies in the subsidize “pool” from funding abortion: Universal health care is a Democratic and
Church musician Paul Manz died on October 28. An organ virtuoso and respected choral composer, Manz’s best known work is “E’en so Lord Jesus Quickly Come.” It was composed while his 3 year-old son lay dying, it was supposed, though he recovered from his illness,
Catholic Church gives D.C. ultimatum on same-sex marriage issue – washingtonpost.com: The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a
Columnist E.J. Dionne is a liberal Democrat and a Catholic. He says that the ban on abortion funding in both the public and the private insurance companies that was added to the health care reform bill may stand, and if it does, it would be
'Three parent babies' take a step closer to reality – Telegraph: Researchers used eggs from young donors to repair damaged eggs of older women in order to increase their chances of fertilisation. They have not yet used the eggs to produce babies, but they have
tODD and I got this going in the comment thread on my post about last Sunday, and I can’t resist opening it up to the rest of you. I said I liked the name Walla Walla, in Washington. He came back with other towns in
So Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, M.D., who killed 13 human beings at Ft. Hood, carried on e-mail correspondence with radical jihadists, posted praise of suicide bombers and other radical Islamist sentiments on websites, gave lectures at Walter Reed on how Muslim soldiers should not fight
Kathleen Parker has a terrific column on forced abortions in China: Coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing's protestations notwithstanding. While the Chinese Communist Party insists that abortions are voluntary under the nation's one-child policy, electronic documentation recently smuggled out
Today is Veterans Day. Why today? Because the fighting in World War I ended, according to the terms of the armistice of 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I salute all of you veterans today. Specifically, I would
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