The Doctor Is In

In a previous post on physician-assisted suicide, I had the following exchange with a commenter named Van: Van: I take it you are are against assisted-suicide? Let me ask you this – how can we say we live in a free nation if we cannot do what we wish to our own bodies, as long [...]

  Here’s a collection of archival photographs from Pearl Harbor, Dec 7th 1941. Most were obtained from the naval archives.

Richard Neuhaus: An Election About the Nature of the Church: American Babylon is our culture. It is not the culture of our choice, although, given the other cultures on offer, it may be the culture we would choose if we had a choice. It is certainly the culture in which we have been chosen and [...]

Charles Gibson’s interview of Sarah Palin is the buzz of the blogs the past few days. In particular, was Charlie’s challenge on her prayer for the troops, taken out of context and misquoted, yet asserted by Gibson to be her “exact words.” He then followed up with the question “Are we fighting a holy war?” [...]

A recent post on the worldview of contemporary postmodern liberalism was kindly linked by Gerard Vanderleun over at American Digest. In his link post, a commenter left the following missive: The essay would have value if there were absolutes. Never have been, never shall be. Our standards of behavior are devised by us, and used [...]

Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits: A quarter of a century after the outbreak of AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared. In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organizations may [...]

Still trying to stay one step ahead of the snapping alligators, so here’s another older post, hopefully worth your time — Dr. Bob   Damn!, I hate these calls… Lying on my desk, clipped to a yellow manila binder, is a single sheet of paper. Its pleasant color format and sampled photomicrograph belie the gravity [...]

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