what an obviously preferential process within which to resolve the same sex marriage question.  Hopefully, this Court will not make the same mistake here as with Roe v. Wade by completely cutting off the very productive national debate now underway on this issue, which would inflame the losers and further poison the body politic which […]

I have always believed that, like slavery, for reasons grounded firmly in science as well as the natural law tradition, the abortion issue rises above resolution through the concept of “popular sovereignty” so famously debated by Lincoln and Douglas.  But since the Supreme Court completely removed the issue from the democratic process with the deeply […]

First, it is pretty clear to me that nothing since the event that has been proposed to add to our control of guns in this country would have prevented the Sandy Hook tragedy.  And the proponents of additional controls are missing a critical point, as recently noted in an essay by constitutional attorneys David Rifkin […]

Aside from the horror of the evil in the act, what is most disturbing about the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting is the immediate reaction to want to understand “why?”, followed by the inevitable call for a political response centered on more gun control.  As to the “why?”, we’ve been attempting to answer that question about […]

Thanks to my friend Blaine Gibbs for sending the following excerpt from an opinion piece on the recent London riots by Brendan O’Neill, reportedly of the leftist persuasion, in The Australian: What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare state mobs.  The youth who are shattering their own communities represent a […]

National Review notes that a lot of wealthy Republicans in New York helped to fund the same sex marriage campaign which recently resulted in the adoption of a state law permitting them, and it quotes one hedge fund manager saying, “I’m a pretty straight down the line small government guy, but this is an issue […]

I am getting very tired of reading and listening to accusations of my intolerance, bigotry, racism, sexism, and nativism in my objections to the construction of the Ground Zero mosque, support of the Arizona illegal immigration law, and support for the California anti-same sex marriage law, among other cultural issues on which I share the […]

Recently a fairly obscure court decision caught my attention.  A Federal judge in Manhattan struck down some of a company’s patents on genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers.  This decision will no doubt revive the debate as to whether human genes, or any living thing for that matter, should be subject to patent protection. […]

“If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.” — James A. Thompson, the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells, as quoted by Charles Krauthammer. Krauthammer served as a member of President George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics and […]

There is so much to deal with and so little time and space, so here are some odds and ends: Executive Pay Limitation The new policy of capping executive pay at $500K annually is typical government populist feel good nonsense.  It suffers from a number of flaws–it reflects complete ignorance of the financial services incentive system; […]