From Last-minute Bush abortion ruling causes furor : A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the
George F. Will says that what with all of our government subsidies, earmarks, social welfare programs, and other policies–including those supported by Republicans–we are already pretty much a socialist country. In his column, he makes some trenchant observations about where we are heading: The distribution
Pirates are plundering the sea lanes practically at will, and world governments are saying they can’t do anything about it: Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against
Michael Gerson urges Barack Obama not to touch three explosive issues that could blow up in his face, stirring up big controversies that would thwart all these good feelings and his desire to unify the country. Many of his supporters, though, want him to go
So says Charles Morris, who points out that the current palliatives are trying to get us back to what caused the problem in the first place; namely, too much lending and borrowing: All these frenzied attempts at staving off recession seem to be aimed merely
You must fill out a 63 page questionnaire that, according to Rich Galen, includes these requirements: The very first question requires you to submit “all resumes or biographical statements” you’ve put out in the past 10 years. Who keeps those things? Question four requires that
Gay activists are taking revenge on Californians whose votes took away their right to marry. They are interrupting religious services–especially targeting Mormons–issuing threats, publicizing names of people who gave money to the anti-gay marriage cause and harrassing them, hurling racial epithets at black people who
E. J. Dionne is a liberal columnist, but as a Catholic he has a guilty conscience over abortion. Other progressives do too. Dionne is calling on Barack Obama to carry out his promise to find common ground with pro-lifers and to do things to reduce
As Charles Krauthammer explains, we really are talking about socialist, as opposed to free market, economics, a command economy run from the top by government dictate: Saving Detroit means saving it from bankruptcy. As we have seen with the airlines, bankruptcy can allow operations to
Thanks to Rich Shipe for alerting me to this listing of Ten Arguments for the Existence of God. Some of them I had never heard of before (e.g., the argument from aesthetics; the argument from arguments; the argument from evil). Of course, such arguments are
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