The Meaning of the Gosnell Trial

Eminent bioethicist Leon Kass on the dangers of a world increasingly indifferent to matters of human dignity.

Sohrab Ahmari The Wall Street Journal 4/19/2013

…Dr. Kass says his critics misunderstand the role of repugnance in his thinking. “It’s not that repugnance is always right,” he says. “There was once repugnance at interracial marriage, and there [...]

Andrew Cuomo – Buying His Way to the Presidency with Common Core

Sara Noble The Independent Sentinel 4/12/2013

Andrew Cuomo wants to be President of the United States. That’s a frightening thought to those of us who know him well. He has little chance of succeeding though he doesn’t seem to know it. He knows how to get moneyed interests behind him however.

Cuomo is promoting a [...]

How will Common Core/National Science Standards Address Climate Change?

Missouri Education Watchdog 3/30/2013

A recent post by MEW reported on a parent’s delight about the forthcoming national science standards and her belief they would teach climate change is primarily due to humans. She wrote:

Federal science standards coming later this month will recommend that public schools educate students about climate change. Once students understand, [...]

Climategate: FOIA – The Man Who Saved The World

James Delingpole The Telegraph [UK] 13 March 2013

FOIA – the anonymous leaker who brought the Climategate and Climategate II emails to light has emerged briefly from the shadows. He has released to selected parties (not me) the password to the cache of Climategate II emails in the hope that someone will have the time [...]

Test of anthrax vaccine in children gets tentative OK

Sharon Begley Reuters 3/19/2013

A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might harm them.

The report, however, released on Tuesday [...]

Obama’s EPA Nominee Vowed Not ‘To Sit Around and Wait for Congressional Action’

Joe Schoffstall CNS News 3/4/2013

President Barack Obama today nominated Gina McCarthy, who has vowed “not to sit around and wait for congressional action” when issuing environmental regulations, to replace Lisa Jackson as Environmental Protection Agency administrator.

McCarthy currently heads the Environmental Protection Agency’s air and radiation office.

On May 1, 2010, in the keynote [...]

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