Before I start on the potentially tangential point of whether these immigrants are in some sense potential “Republican voters,” I should note in fairness that my colleague, Leon Wolf, does argue later in the post for enforcement of the law: All of that said, I am still a law and order guy. And, I support [...]
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A compromise on American abortion?
December 29th, 2010 
admin There is nothing so foolish that some philosopher has not said it, and there is nothing so evil that some bioethicist has not proposed it. – Anthony Daniels Armando offers a “compromise” on abortion, in which it is unrestricted during the first two trimesters, and restricted at state-level option during the third. His intent, as [...]
Right After You Were Born, Mommy Sued Her Doctor Because…
December 29th, 2010 admin In a lot of ways, our culture has made progress over the last 50 years in the way we treat the disabled – especially in the way we ensure access to facilities and treatment, and employment. In an entirely different way, we have engaged in the process of sending a message to the disabled that [...]
Engaging the Issue
December 29th, 2010 admin Over the course of the day, Paul Cella and I have been kicking the immigration can around at RedState. What follows is a replication of that debate to its current point. Part the First: In Case You Thought This was Going Away – Leon Tens of thousands of protestors lined the streets of Los Angeles, [...]
On the survival of privacy.
December 29th, 2010 admin It is not obvious that true privacy in our day will endure the ministrations of its narrow partisans. There is a bizarre sort of double effect on the idea of privacy right now: a simultaneous exaggeration and diminution. Its deterioration as a firm principle of life proceeds at once with the hoarsest and most desperate [...]
Why the Heck Not?
December 29th, 2010 admin Via Reuters, we have another helpful reminder that we’re not on a slippery slope, we’re in a sinkhole: SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday. Ri Kwang-chol, who fled [...]
Barbarians in the gates.
December 29th, 2010 admin We care about Europe for the same reason we care for the suicidal: because a chosen fate is not inherently a just one, and we are called to act when an unjust end threatens. We care about Europe because filial piety is still a virtue: we are, in the end, a European nation as surely [...]
The new world.
December 29th, 2010 admin A true and current tale: A person of my acquaintance, wishing to have a child with his wife, was discussing his lack of success with another friend, a female who with her own husband has lovely and vigorous sons. This second couple, apparently fine parents in every way, resorted to in vitro fertilization to achieve [...]
