Assisted Suicide: Last year, Colorado voters and the Washington, D.C. City Council legalized physician-assisted suicide. Ohio, by contrast, passed a law making assisted suicide a felony, no matter who does the helping, and attempts to legalize doctor-prescribed death in about half the states failed. Expect advocates across the country—funded in the abundant millions by George Soros—to push legalization again, with the Read More ›
It is possible that President Obama actually believes that his 11th hour Mideast madness at the UN — stealthily coordinated with the Palestinians, according to Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu; initiated by the U.S., according to the Egyptians — will foster peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This is so delusional that if his belief is in fact honest it is arguably even Read More ›
Ever since his unexpected victory, the media have been obsessing over what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for a range of important issues, such as the Paris Agreement on climate change, border enforcement, the judiciary, and Obamacare repeal. But one set of crucial concerns — those that go under the general category of bioethics/biotechnology — has received woefully short Read More ›
I just returned from two weeks touring the People’s Republic of China. The Great Wall, 2,200-year-old Terracotta Warriors, the Forbidden City—what an experience! The size of the place is mind-boggling. Shanghai alone has almost as many people as the entire state of Texas. Most of the cities I visited are unattractive in that old communist way, with mile after mile Read More ›
During this spring’s Brexit campaign, President Obama threatened to make the United Kingdom wait at the “back of the queue” for any future trade deals with the United States if the British people made the “unthinkable” decision to leave the European Union. Now that Americans have made a shocking choice of their own, President-elect Trump should honor his promise to Read More ›
Assisted suicide proponents always promise that facilitated death will be offered solely and strictly to the mentally competent. But once a society accepts the premise of euthanasia—that it is acceptable to eliminate suffering by eliminating the sufferer—there is no way to restrict the putative “right to die” to the mentally healthy. Mental illness often causes greater anguish than any physical disease Read More ›
The AT&T-Time Warner merger is needed to help fund the deployment of 5G technologies, which will be both extremely costly and harder to achieve as a result of the primary focus of regulators in recent years. A vertical merger between AT&T and Time Warner (not Time Warner Cable) shouldn’t be a big deal since for the most part neither firm Read More ›
It is no secret that the entertainment industry often mocks Christianity. It has reached the point of cliché: clergy depicted as lusting hypocrites and believers as reactionaries, haters, and prudish moralists. The institutional Catholic Church, in particular, garners opprobrium; it is regularly portrayed as the perpetrator of dark conspiracies, desperate to maintain its power and prevent the falsity of its Read More ›
The Federal Communications Commission realizes that different rules for different competing firms “could have [anti]competitive ripple effects,” yet the agency’s proposals frequently include different rules for different competitors anyway. In the case of privacy protection for the customers of broadband service providers, the FCC is proposing to impose onerous restrictions on broadband providers’ use of Web browsing and app usage Read More ›
Should anyone outside the military be forced to kill? Most people would say no. But with the ubiquitous availability of abortion—and the push to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia—doctors may soon find themselves required to take lives or risk being booted from the medical profession. Let’s call this threat “medical martyrdom.” Laws today generally protect doctors from being conscripted into Read More ›
The death of a terminally ill seventeen-year-old boy made headlines recently, as Belgium’s first case of child euthanasia. I don’t understand the sudden fuss. The Netherlands has long allowed minors to request and receive euthanasia: Dutch children down to age sixteen can receive euthanasia without their parents’ consent, and children can be killed by doctors with parental consent starting at age twelve. Read More ›
In the book of Matthew, Jesus tells a parable of a father who asks his sons to go into the field and work. The first son refuses to do so, but later thinks better of it and goes into the field. The second son agrees to do so, but then changes his mind and stays home. After telling this story, Read More ›