Social Issues:
"Each abortion is really about two deaths", August 22, 2005
Bob Krumm has an excellent post on the topic of abortion. Don't miss it....
Where Frist Really Stands on Stem Cell Research, July 31, 2005
Matt White has a long, detailed and very thoughtful postabout Sen. Bill Frist's stem cell research announcement. You'll be shocked to learn that the mainstream media's portrayal of Frist's announcement was not quite as nuanced, detailed and thoughtful as Frist's announcement was......
ACLUseless, April 22, 2005
Mark Rose says the Tennessee branch of the ACLU is trying to thwart the will of the people. He's right. So what else is new?...
Schiavo 7, March 31, 2005
Glenn Reynolds's Salon essay on the political implications of the federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo tragedy is a must-read, even if I don't necessarily agree with all of his analysis. I would agree the GOP is facing an internal debate over the role of government, and that the forces of federalism seem to be in retreat while the forces of Big Government seem to be on the advance. But the GOP has always been...
Schiavo 6, March 30, 2005
My recent much-commented-upon posting about the Terri Schiavo case (After Schiavo, 3/22/05) got mentioned in Doug Kern's thoughtful piece at TechCentralStation.com today. Kern raises some excellent points and I must say I'm not wedded to the idea of a federal law requiring every adult American to have a living will. What I am convinced of, however, is the need for federal policy that encourages people to have written living wills. The Schiavo case only happened...
Schiavo 5, March 25, 2005
Glenn Reynolds nails it in his comments about the role of the constitutional process in the Terri Schiavo case.Trampling the Constitution in an earnest desire to do good in high-profile cases has been a hallmark of a certain sort of liberalism, and it's the sort of thing that I thought conservatives eschewed.Before I am a conservative or a Republican or a libertarian, I am a constitutionalist. Whether it is a "right to die" case at...
Schiavo 4, March 24, 2005
Jonathan Witt has some thoughts about Terri Schiavo and what it is really like to die of thirst.Let's set aside the hunger issue, since that's not what's going to kill Terri Schiavo. If someone doesn't find a way to cut through the sanctimonious red tape and get water to her, she'll die of thirst. Why the graphic description? An LA Times story purports to reveal how positively enjoyable it is to die of hunger and...
Sciavo 3: From the Email Inbox, March 23, 2005
Here, without comment, are excerpts of and in some cases entire emails sent to me regarding yesterday's post about the Terri Schiavo case....
Schiavo 2, March 23, 2005
I have received numerous emails related to yesterday's post regarding the Terri Schiavo case, and plan to post excerpts or all of them later today. That post also has received 90 comments so far, many of them thoughtful and worth your time to read....
After Schiavo, March 22, 2005
I have not written about the Terri Schiavo case because it is too complex, too multilayered, and too steeped in unknown or unknowable facts for me - indeed for most people - to have a fully informed opinion. I don't know - and neither do you - if Michael Schiavo is trying to murder his wife or trying to fulfill her stated wishes for just such a scenario. I don't know what Terri Schiavo would...
Tennessee House To Move Gay Marriage Amendment, February 11, 2005
The Nashville City Paper reports that the Tennessee state House plans to move legislation next week that would add a gay-marriage ban to the state constitution. It's widely expected to pass. The usual critics make the usual claim that the amendment singles out a certain group for discrimination. It does no such thing. The amendment merely enshrines in the state constitution that which civilized society has recognized for millennia - marriage is between one man...
Bredesen: Tolerance Doesn't Require Allowing Gay Marriage, January 28, 2005
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, increasingly touted recently as a possible presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2008, is sure to anger the party's liberal base with his comments in today's Knoxville News Sentinel about "gay marriage," which he called "a vastly different issue from tolerance for gays.""I certainly have said frequently over the years that I would happily promote hire or discharge of people in state government without regard to sexual orientation or anything like...
Dehumanized, December 08, 2004
Like Pogo I have seen the enemy, and he is me....
The Specter Spectre, November 10, 2004
I have not weighed in on the flap over whether Sen. Arlen Specter should be allowed to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee or not. Until now. Much as I don't like Arlen Specter, conservative ideologues who wish otherwise because Specter isn't pro-life need to take a deep breath and realize the damage they are doing to their own cause and to the Bush administration by their current anti-Specter crusade. I'm not going to...
Most Tennesseans Oppose Gay Marriage, September 22, 2004
Poll results: 82 percent of Tennesseans oppose the legalization of gay marriage. Good. Now if someone would just get busy writing legislation to allow the people to vote on just such an amendment the state constitution... Now, I fully expect some reader of this post to submit a comment claiming I want to "restrict" the rights of gays, or "take away" their rights. I don't. I am a small-l libertarian, a freedom-loving American and I...
Gay Marriage: A Reader Responds, May 21, 2004
A reader responded via email to my post yesterday on the impact that legalizing gay "marriage" will have on the freedom to practice Christianity in this country, and makes some predictions......
Gay Marriage Will Make Christianity Illegal, May 20, 2004
I have wanted to write about "gay marriage," but haven't been sure how to write what I wanted to say. Today, via Donald Sensing, I found someone else already said it. Lexington Green, one of the contributors to the excellent Chicago Boyz blog, has written a very strong statement against so-called "gay marriage," calling it an attack on Christianity. Here's the link to the whole thing, which includes a few bits of strong language guaranteed...
Something Old Something Dead, April 26, 2004
Michael Williams notes something odd about the pro-abortion women who led a rally for abortion rights Sunday in Washington D.C. Or should I say something old. Read the whole thing....
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