October 24, 2008
Senator Barack Obama today left the campaign trail to visit his gravely ill grandmother, the woman who raised him. He spoke briefly this morning with CBS News about his decision. He explained that when his mother passed away, he did not arrive in time. He did not want to make the same mistake twice...
go to article »October 20, 2008
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, member of the President's Council on Bioethics, previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, sits on the editorial board...
go to article »October 19, 2008
At a campaign stop Friday, October 17, in Roanoke, Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama took aim at Sen. John McCain’s health care plan. “The Wall Street Journal recently reported that it was actually worse than we thought. It turns out Senator McCain would pay for part of his plan by making dras...
go to article »October 17, 2008
Conventional wisdom holds that Americans are more conservative than their European brethren. It is probably partly correct, and Joe the Plumber is a good illustration of this. Despite his claims earlier this week, neither Joe nor the business he wants to acquire make anything close to the $250,...
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"'On partial-birth abortion and on the rights of infants who survive abortions, Barack Obama's answers in the third presidential debate were highly misleading,' commented Douglas Johnson, longtime legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nation's largest pro-life org...
go to article »October 16, 2008
October 14, 2008
Alternet takes a look at how the proposed health care plans of the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would translate into the real lives of people living without insurance. Today they look at a Latina mother and her children. Hernandez is uninsured. She cannot afford to buy a policy...
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Assisted suicide for the terminally ill will probably lead to assisted suicide for anyone who so wishes! Assisted suicide is illegal in Montana, U.S.A. Wesley Smith of Secondhand Smoke touched on the issue: "So we can see that the dying patient is just the point person, the category of suffering per...
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So an American doesn’t win this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, and some pundit declares the awarding committee “biased” and “euro-centric”! Euro-centric? For the record, the U.S. has 308 Nobel Prizes. More than any other country (France has 57). My guess at the time...
go to article »October 12, 2008
One of the most distinctive characteristics of the presidential campaign this year is that both sides refuse to talk about specific policy plans. They call each other rotten tomato, they turn the opponents’ proposals into nice slogans, their own proposals the same, and that’s it. No deba...
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