Category: Controversies

For decades, liberal judges have advanced their agenda by arbitrarily declaring “rights” that defy the Western legal tradition, articulated so well by Cicero, Aquinas and Martin Luther King Jr., that just laws comport with God’s laws. They have declared peddling pornography, killing unborn babies and even same-sex marriage are “rights.”
These are not rights, they are wrongs. For judges to enshrine them permanently in our law, they must first unthrone God — and put themselves in His place.

Yup. Washtimes.com. Interesting article!

In and Out of Communion

“Rage Explodes After Another Baghdad Blast,” bellows the headline in this morning’s Washington Post. It is the paper’s take on the story mentioned below, about the murder and maiming of dozens of innocent Iraqis and foreigners.
Other than the pretense of objectivity — making it sound like the snarling mob has some legitimate grievances, and that killing random innocents is just a civil rights protest — the thing to note is the ingrained racism. Arab anger is treated as a force of nature, something that cannot be contained or mollified. They are essentially sub-human, and it is useless to challenge their paranoic rantings (in the Post’s stories, there is never any indication that the reporter ever challenges the wild assertions of the mobsters, probably out of fear.
For instance, the story says “[m]en shouting at the top of their voices swore they had seen an Israeli flag in one of the vehicles shortly after the bomb detonated.” Right. An Israeli flag on an SUV in Baghdad. Those filthy Jews are getting careless! The assertion is merely repeated without comment. “Isn’t it interesting,” the subtext reads, “that these Arab creatures equate the U.S. and Israel?”
The focus of the story is not on facts, events, or analysis, but on an emotional reaction. This is consistent with the Post’s Iraq reporting, which is calculated to provoke an American emotional reaction, not to inform the public. More on that in a future post.

Of Stem Cells and Fairy Tales – weeklystandard.com

“stem cell experts confess . . . that of all the diseases that may be someday cured by embryonic stem cell treatments, Alzheimer’s is among the least likely to benefit.”
But people like Nancy Reagan have been allowed to believe otherwise, “a distortion” Weiss writes that “is not being aggressively corrected by scientists.” Why? The false story line helps generate public support for the biotech political agenda. As Weiss noted, “It [Nancy Reagan’s statement in support of ESCR] is the kind of advocacy that researchers have craved for years, and none wants to slow its momentum.”