Mariette Ulrich writes about children, Summer, and boredom. She has a point about modern, mostly electronic entertainments offering "stimulation (but usually the wrong kind--that which dazzles the senses, but does not feed the soul or the intellect)." But when you read about Ulrich growing up you realize that there is something deeper there. She had open space on a farm and lots [...]
Writers of the Future, a project of L. Ron Hubbard, predicted in 1987 what 2012 might look like. Generally speaking, the writers offer apocalyptic visions and several people predicted world population will catastrophically hit 8-10 billion (in fact, there are about 7 billion people on the planet today), and that there is no way Earth could handle that many people. One person, [...]
The New York Sun editorializes on the decision by New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's regime that hospital maternity wards must restrict choice -- not the choice of a mother to kill her baby, but how she feeds it: The latest from New York’s commissioner of mental hygiene is that maternity wards in New York are going to start locking up [...]
Business Week is trying to push its socially left-wing agenda to be helpful in advising Chick-fil-A to follow the example of Marriott International, the hotel company run by Bill Marriott, a "devout" Mormon. Business Week says that the company stayed out of the gay marriage fight when the Mormon church supported a ban on the practice in California. In fact, Marriott International went [...]
Interim's coverage from the July edition of the paper: "Transgendered, transsexuals get special protections in Ontario." The article begins: On June 13 Bill 33, a private members bill in the Ontario legislature that would add “gender expression” and “gender identity” to the Ontario Human Rights Code and give special legal protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual, passed with all-party [...]
Great list of "Five Canadian pro-life activists who need to write their memoirs," by Suzanne Fortin of Big Blue Wave: Fr. Alphone de Valk, Gwen Landolt, John-Henry Westen, Steve Jalsevac, and Jim Hughes. Agreed on all of them and would add a sixth: Dr. Barrie de Veber, a medical doctor who helped create one of the first two pro-life groups in Canada, founded the [...]
Don Perry, head of public relations at the department at embattled Chick-fil-A, died unexpectedly on Friday. Five Feet of Fury says: Something to remember the next time somebody asks you sarcastically: “So, just HOW does gay marriage hurt straight people, huh…?”
Rod Dreher on the journalistic crusade against coverage of the Chick-fil-A story: This is all about some fake-journalism scheme dreamed up by a few extremely parochial, bourgeois anti-Christian bigots who work in the Newsweek/Daily Beast building in lower Manhattan. It’s not about reforming a great social wrong. It’s about destroying the reputation of a restaurant whose owners are traditional Christians who share [...]
Actor Jason Alexander -- George from Seinfeld -- posted a long rant against guns in America in the wake of the shooting last week in Colorado. In his concluding paragraph, Alexander includes this sentence: "Every life is precious." Yet, he was among the celebrities who announced he stood with Planned Parenthood.
That's what I think when I read this story. But seriously, Barack Obama's line about Washington giving taxpayer money to abortion giant Planned Parenthood -- "I think that is a bad idea. I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices" -- is baffling. Really, will the daughters of a former U.S. president need taxpayer-subsidized birth control? [...]
As many in the media call for some vague "leadership" from our politicians in the aftermath of the gun violence in Toronto, few are willing to spell out what kind of leadership is needed precisely. I would suggest some honesty about the role of the breakdown of family and growth of fatherlessness among some populations in the city. As our friend Lou Iacobelli [...]
The story of Dalton McGuinty's attempt to bully schools and families into accepting his pro-gay agenda through the clandestine Safer Schools Act which purports to battle bullying but is really about normalizing homosexuality appears in the July issue of our paper. On the law's stated focus, supposedly bullying, the bill comes up short as it focuses on so-called homophobic bullying and does [...]
Kathy Shaidle reviewed Richard Stursberg's The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC in the July issue of The Interim. Shaidle concludes her review: I defy anyone who reads The Tower of Babble to think up a “solution” to the CBC “problem” that doesn’t involve controlled demolition. It would be fitting, however, if the Corpse was miraculously revived by producing a [...]
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has excerpts from and thoughts on the nationwide examination of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands which was just published in the Lancet on July 11, 2012. Must-read study and a must-read blog post. This phrase from the Lancet article should be frightening to all: "The decreased frequency of ending of life without explicit patient request..." Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide without the [...]
Jim Goad at Taki Magazine: I started to notice that it was nearly impossible to endorse abortion without in some way supporting basic eugenic precepts. It’s difficult to argue that all living humans are equal if you also support snuffing the unborn in the womb because they’re “unwanted.” Goad says plenty of other politically incorrect things about the South, cousin-marriage, and race, [...]