The Silent Spring will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its publication next week and at Taki's Magazine Kathy Shaidle looks at the author, Rachel Carson, and her deadly legacy: The fact that noble, selfless humanitarians such as Rachel Carson are typically smug, self-satisfied misanthropes has been a truism since Dickens invented Mrs. Jellyby. Yet in the case of the DDT ban, good intentions [...]
On October 13 and October 30, there will be defund abortion rallies in Ontario. On Saturday, October 13 at 11 am, there will be mini-rallies at the riding level at the constitutuency offices of the MPPs. On Tuesday, October 30 from noon to 2pm, there will be a massive Defund Abortion rally at Queen's Park. Alissa Golob of Campaign Life Coalition Youth [...]
S.E. Cupp in the Daily News: Last week, after the women of the Democratic National Convention had finished making their pitches for more government assistance to help further their sexual liberation, I took to Twitter to shed a collective tear. “Feminism weeps,” I wrote, “as (Sandra) Fluke and other DNC women get on their metaphorical knees to beg for government to take [...]
Three years ago Norman Borlaug died. Borlaug was instrumental in the Agricultural Revolution that occurred in the second half of the 20th century and thus because of his work, millions of people who otherwise would have starved to death lived. In short, he proved Malthus wrong. Here's our 2009 obituary for Borlaug. From the obit: Don Boudreaux, an economist at George Mason [...]
Here's the editorial from the October 2001 edition of The Interim: The tragic events of Sept. 11 – four planes downed in three locations, New York City, Washington and rural Pennsylvania; a death toll near 7,000; the loss of innocence to the United States and the West in general – is nothing less than a wicked attack on human life. Despite what [...]
Gregg Easterbrook writes a football column for ESPN interspersed with political and cultural commentary. In his NFL predictions column (written in haiku), he has this tidbit on what he calls "après-feminism" that is appearing in dead-tree version of The Atlantic Monthly: Then this year came "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," a cover by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton dean and recent [...]
Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press: The Democratic Party plank on abortion is the most extreme plank in the United States. The president of the United States voted three times to protect the right of doctors to kill babies who came out of an abortion still alive. That plank says tax-paid abortion at any moment, meaning partial-birth abortion. That's a 20 percent [...]
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan delivered a sweet but strong pro-life statement in his speech last night: “We believe that in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope. Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the Lord of Life. We have responsibilities, one to another – we do not [...]
Bryan Caplanhas six "rules for optimizing your family size" which concludes with this: When you're on the fence, err on the side of having another kid. A life well-lived includes achievement as well as happiness. Creating and raising one more child is a great achievement, even your last child makes you marginally less happy. A year ago, I reviewed Caplan's Selfish Reasons [...]
It's crunch time here at The Interim as it is production week. Great September issue and we'll tell you more about it next week. But blogging won't resume until either next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Yesterday I noted a new EFC report and recent Claire Hoy column about the Ontario government now refusing to release abortion statistics (under the guise of transparency and accountability -- how Orwellian). Suzanne Fortin at Big Blue Wave has two comments about this topic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: people who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. Good [...]
Today is the first anniversary of Jack Layton's death and the NDP and left-wing media are milking it to promote his example of tirelessly working to advance the socialist agenda. Of course, that's not how they put it, but that's the point. The average person didn't understand that "Jack" wasn't all about smiles, but rather socialism. To correct the sycophancy of the [...]
Editor's Note: In the August edition of The Interim we published a survey of pro-life groups regarding incrementalism and gestational limits. The Christian Heritage Party response was not complete because CHP leader Jim Hnatiuk did not reply to the portion on incrementalism. We have edited the survey online after receiving this letter to the editor from Hnatiuk, which will appear in the [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has released an excellent report, "Black Holes: Canada’s Missing Abortion Data: A Brief Examination of Canada’s Abortion Data Collection Policies and an Analysis of Ontario’s New Legislation." It provides context and history and debunks the argument usually offered for keeping the public in the dark about the number of abortions done in the publicly funded health care [...]
In the wake of the attack on the Family Research Council, Jonathan S. Tobin has a very good post at Commentary about the Southern Poverty Law Center, in which he observes, "It’s clear that the SPLC has long since stopped being the heroic defender of civil rights and become just another left-wing advocacy group that engages in its own version of intolerant and [...]