Category Archives: debate

A World Without Guns? No Thanks.

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Sam Harris is a “New Atheist” and a Second Amendment skeptic too — wait, wait – and there’s a lot to disagree with in this new piece of his (“collective psychosis”, good lord). Nevertheless, agree or … Continue reading →

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“Sensible Proposals”

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Heather, you wrote: Anyone who was expecting Vice President Wayne LaPierre to break the NRA’s week-long silence after the Newtown massacre with an olive branch and some sensible proposals regarding better background checks, say, or restrictions on high-capacity ammo clips … Continue reading →

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Testing the Flagship

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Kyle Plotkin (Gov Jindal’s communications director) responds to my earlier post on the Guardian’s report on Louisiana’s voucher schools as follows (I am publishing this with his permission): This is a complete red herring attack from … Continue reading →

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Time to Fix the Flagship

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: If there’s a policy that deserves to be a winner for the GOP (as well as being a thoroughly good thing in its own right), it is school choice and Bobby Jindal has done well to … Continue reading →

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Et Tu Obama?

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Slate’s Daniel Engber sighs over Rubio’s geology problems, but then gives us this extract from a Q&A with then Senator Obama at the Compassion Forum ( know, I know) at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa. on April 13, 2008: Q: … Continue reading →

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Lies, All Lies, I Tell Ya

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s no news that Georgian congressman Paul Broun is a strange bird (he’s the clown who wanted to ban Playboy from the PX), well, here he is again (TPM reports): Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of … Continue reading →

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Must Try Harder

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Over at Patheos, Kathy Schiffer is running a series on the “Best 100 Catholic Speakers” and here she is with seminary professor Dr. Janet Smith, author of Contraception: Why Not? Choice quote from Dr. Smith: I think contraception is an … Continue reading →

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For Misery in Massachusetts

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cardinal O’Malley (The National Catholic Register reports): Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston is leading a statewide fight to defeat the Death With Dignity Act, a November 2012 ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts. He has outlined the … Continue reading →

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Patronizing, Cruel & Misleading

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Peter Mullen, a British parson, attempts to clothe his religiously-based objections to assisted suicide (“As a Christian, I do not believe we have the right to die at the moment and by the means of … Continue reading →

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Lunatic, Asylum, etc.

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Just when you think that David Cameron’s stumblebum government cannot get any worse, here’s a piece of news that does not bode well for British patients, taxpayers or both. Tom Chivers writes in The Daily Telegraph: The man [just] put … Continue reading →

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